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Read MoreWhy Don’t We Get a Real Job in the Real World?
Because we’re just too busy pursuing what we love. by Casey Siemasko We’ve hiked to the centre of an active volcano in Indonesia, hitchhiked with nuns in Ecuador, and hugged koalas in Australia. We’ve watched Bollywood films at a leper colony in India, glacier hiked in New Zealand, and seen hundreds of sky lanterns released in Taiwan. We’ve sunbathed on some of the world’s most beautiful...
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On the 13th May, 1987, I was officially born at 03h02 in the morning. My father tells me that I was delivered by a grinning black doctor. Coming from Norfolk, a part of the world that is not ethnically diverse, it doesn’t surprise me that he remembers this detail. My mother recalls his name was Doctor Wadda. ‘Waddayawanna make those eyes at me for?’ she recalled by singing through Skype...
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Read MoreIf I Had My Life to Live Over
An eight-five year old woman, Nadine Stair, shared the following poem before her death. I rarely take the time to appreciate poetry, but in this case, I make an exception. I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up.I would be sillier than I have been this trip.I would take fewer things seriously.I would take more chances.I would take more trips.I would climb...
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Read MoreA $9 Bicycle Made Out of Cardboard
This may be one of the most amazing inventions throughout all of history. The Bicycle, the most energy efficient vehicle of all time, has just been taken a step further. It is now made out of cardboard. “The Cardboard Bicycle is composed of 99% recycled material, 90% of which is recycled cardboard, with the remaining part made of recycled plastic bottles and recycled car tires. The bicycle...
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Read MorePeople Doing Things II
Eating ice cream, fishing, resting, embracing, hugging, laughing, long-boarding, walking, holding hands, kissing, carrying logs, getting married, stretching, feeding birds, looking, chasing buses, and cycling in the rain. Everybody is doing something. This is the second album in response to people doing things. In this album, people are also doing things. Put the slideshow into full screen for...
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Read MoreIstanbul Closed by the Government: Protestors Hit With Tear Gas by the Police
In Turkey, May 1st, is labour day. I am currently residing in Istanbul and teaching English for a couple of months. Due to the public holiday, yesterday was a vacation for all schools and many businesses. I received an email, late in the evening the night before declaring that, “All public transportation is suspended from 05:00 am on and there is no information about how long that suspension will...
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Read MoreBeing Autodidactic: Teaching Yourself Anything
When people choose to learn something, the first thing that they ask is, ‘Which course should I do?’ Companies such as Rosetta Stone (an expensive, ineffective language learning program) have profited from this attitude because people are often of the mindset that ‘you get what you pay for.’ When buying something physical, you often do get what you pay for. For example, if you pay...
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Read More110 Second Video Guide to Hitchhiking
How to hitchhike? As I was hitchhiking, I learnt an awful lot that I didn’t know before. While this video isn’t serious, it does offer some useful advice. Advice that I never followed. Make your own rules, then don’t follow them. It’s more fun. If you want real hitchhiking advice, click here. You can also see the hitchhiking video of my face. Or read some stories about...
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Hi, I’m Jamie
I'm just a simple boy from the rural English countryside of Norfolk who loves to travel in search of adventure. I make photos, videos, and scribbles as I search to find happiness and overcome my fears. GBSW is my platform for sharing them with the world.
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The Avant-Garde Life on Amazon
Two months ago, I released The Avant-Garde Life, a collection of scribbles concerning how to escape from society in the hope for a better life. An alternative tag is ‘quitting your job to travel the...
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Oh! Wonderful, Terrible, Crazy World
As we live our day to day lives, we sometimes forget how amazing it is that the world really is. We forget the people, the places, the everything that can take our breath away. It may not be possible to enjoy...
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How to Greet People in Different Countries
‘I thought they were going for the kiss but it was the hug and now I...
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Postcards From Europe II
As a follow-up to my original album, Postcards from Europe, here is another...
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Love, On a Bike (Janapar: The Movie)
Across the world, many of us are in search of something. We don’t...
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Capturing the Perfect Hitchhiking Moment
Wherever you go in the world and whatever you do, you can find beauty in the...
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Five Biggest Regrets of the Dying
It’s very easy to guess at what we will regret when we die. However,...
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Hitchhiking Friends
As I hitchhiked through Europe I met hundreds, probably thousands of people....
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Postcards from Europe
I don’t buy typical postcards because I can download the same images...
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