Lives they never put on the menu

You could be living
a completely different life.

From teaching English in Japan, to crewing a yacht across the Pacific, to protecting wildlife in the Amazon — this is a menu of alternative lives spanning the most extreme diversity of experience one person could have. A comprehensive lay of the land of the cheap, unconventional, often little-known ways people actually live instead of the standard one handed to you. You may know a few of these; you almost certainly don't know all of them.

Here's the surprising part: almost none of them require much money. The costs are small or negligible. The real entry fee is sincere interest — if you genuinely want one of these lives, you can actually look into it and step in. Think of this as a starting point: get the overview here, then go research the ones that pull at you.

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