About

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I shall have finished my travels.”

~Mark Twain

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

 

I am Expat Bob. No, that is not my real name. Duh.

I had a few to drink and decided to update the About page in order to make it more serious in tone. woooOOOoooo… The end is near, dig your bunker, put on your tinfoil hat!

I have traveled my whole life, beginning with camping road trips as a child and moving my way up to living internationally. I’ve lived in campgrounds, I’ve lived on a boat, I’ve lived as a suburbanite, as a rich yuppie, as a pauper, and as South American glitterati. I’ve lived as a playboy and lived as a hermit. I’ve owned and ditched more property and wealth in the past few years than most people accrue in a lifetime. I’ve lived among the rich and poor, rubbed elbows with the important and unimportant, inhabited the densest urban areas and gone insane from sensory deprivation in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

I’ve come away with the conclusion that most people are morons. Good-natured morons, true, however through that good nature, they place too much faith in a select few really bad sociopaths; therefore we end up with war, famine, and the other horsemen of the apocalypse.

Then I must ask myself: are they really so good-natured if they allow their effort to be channeled in this way? And then I answer, “not really.”

I have abandoned my homeland of the USA because I find it repugnant that I must be complicit in the US government’s waging of death and tyranny at home and abroad. It is a waste. Of people, of capital, of soul. We have 3 choices: contribute to the mindlessness, watch it from behind iron bars, or contribute to the nonviolent mindlessness of another jurisdiction. I choose option 3.

Therefore I exile myself to the armpits of the earth in search of a second passport, so that I may relieve myself of the burden of the previous one (I find it most insulting and insidious that one must go through such a process to opt-out), and therefore rid myself of its obligations and complicity in tyrannical acts. I do not wish to be one of those people who is “not really” good when all things are considered.

This blog contains many exploits and misadventures from the process. I hope that you may learn from my victories and my mistakes.

Fun facts:

My favorite shirt is the one that says “I don’t care about apathy.”

Or any of the ones with zombies on them. I like zombies. They are more honest than most people.