Society & Culture
On this episode I’m talking with Adam Groffman who not only runs the website travelsofadam.com but he is the author of some really awesome hipster city guides which are really just as cool as they sound. He’s also a designer, marketer, blogger, travel writer and travel consultant so be prepared for some gold. From his website: In a few words, I’m a hipster travel blogger & one-time graphic designer. In 2010 I quit my job as a book designer in Boston, MA and set off on a trip around the world. Over the course of 15 months I visited more than a handful of countries from Morocco to Israel, India to Vietnam. It wasn’t until I met people my same age from all over the world (doing very different things than what I was doing) that I was inspired to take some action. It just seemed unfair to think they had all these amazing stories to tell, and here I was, beginning to feel more and more complacent in my generally comfortable life. It was on my IcelandAir flight back from Reykjavik to Boston that I realized there’s no reason to stop traveling. I could make something work somehow whether through my job or on my own. In seat 19F, I wrote up a list of questions: Could I travel & not work? Where would I go? How much would it cost? Would I be able to live like that? What would I learn/do? When would I go? I didn’t have all the answers (actually, I had none at that moment), but I knew they were questions I would be able to answer. Honestly, I’m surprised at how easy it was to make the decision to pick up and leave Boston without answering a single one of those questions.