I love your site, and have become an avid reader because I’m in the process of doing exactly what you are.

One important difference – I have two toddlers. On the travel aspect of it, do you have any sites you’d recommend to families with kid friendly ideas. Maybe they’ll get more comfortable the more we do it, but there are some times you just can’t fly into town and look for a hotel because those kids are just worn out and melting down.

Any thoughts?

@Sampath – Yes, you are certainly correct that we can not ignore context, and also that we owe a great deal to others. In fact, I believe that individualistic goals are not as incompatible with service to others as
some people would have us believe.

My position is that both of those focal points– individual goals and service to others– are inter-related and that together they are the most important things we can work to acheive.

I’ll be writing more about this soon… stay tuned.

I have a brief comment to make on your central theme that you need not lead your life in the way others expect you to. It is an admirable observation, no doubt about it. But one wonders how an idea of any individual can be so original as to be free from the historical context in which he lives. I understand we owe a lot more to our fellow beings than many of the so called successful men care to grant. I mean to say that it is not altogether meaningless to be aware of the demands of the social context in which one lives and works.