Your Work + Adventure Suggestions?
July 6th, 2009
Lowell Winer (a very cool guy starting a very interesting happiness-related tech company) and I were talking about going someplace adventurous to work from for a couple of weeks, as some of us did last year in Kauai:
More Kauai pictures on Facebook
We threw around some ideas. and I think the middle east came up at #1 (Israel, Turkey, Egypt). Here were some others…
- Kauai/Hawaii
- Buenos Aires
- Bali
- Spain (especially Seville, Barcenlona, the beaches)
- Vancouver (I’ve heard it’s great, but I’ve never been)
- Madagascar (this would just be adventure, not work…I still want to go!)
- Where else would be fun to combine work and adventure?
Even though I’ve been to places like Buenos Aires (Pix from my 5 weeks there Dec-Jan 09), Spain and Bali (some pix), those were alone, without people who also intended to work, as we did in Kauai. By the way, another reason I want people to make money through enjoyment is so that I can have more traveling and adventure partners 🙂
I tweeted out a note (which automatically is copied into my Facebook status) with the middle east idea, and got back a bunch of responses from people who loved Turkey…
Where would YOU want to go? (Comment below!)
Who wants to come when we figure it out?
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In a post in May, The Power of “Why Not?”, I outlined some reasoning for “why not do some work from kauai?” A half dozen people agreed, and here we are now 😀
It’s my first time here, and Kauai is amazingly beautiful!
For the first part of the trip, Will Jessup (founder, www.CitrusByte.com), Tony Wong (founder) www.DigitialOnionInc.com, and Patty Yun (CitrusBuyte/MBA, USC) came out. We quickly discovered that the Grand Hyatt Kauai, on the south shore, has an excellent office area:
The view from our office (with one of my favorite books, and a key inspiration of www.CEOFlow.com):
Initial thoughts on this kind of trip
To any of you skeptics – we really are working here in Kauai in addition to enjoying ourselves at the beach 🙂 The most valuable part of this trip isn’t the amount of work we crank out with our analytical left brains. The value is giving ourselves some mental space to breathe, getting clear, and letting our creative right brains make those “aha!” and “why didn’t I see that sooner?” leaps of intuition. Sometimes this happens while we’re writing, hiking, driving, sometimes while sketching… but it’s the kind of thinking that happens rarely when we’re overloaded from work back home.
Great Place to Stay in Princeville
Ever want to stay at a townhouse in Princeville? I’d recommend where we are: http://www.kauaitownhouse.com/
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