I’ve been trying to escape the surly bonds of sedentary living for a decade.

Mobile devices and the Internet enable us to live and work just about anywhere. I’ve been trying to realize that possibility for ten years, with mixed success.

I started gradually. In the summer of 2006, my wife and kids had the summer off, but I didn’t. It occurred to me that as a writer who worked from home, I could theoretically work from any location where an Internet connection could be found. So what if I took a trip, but worked the whole time?

Long story short: It worked. We visited Central America and Southern Mexico exploring Mayan ruins. I managed to find Wi-Fi almost everywhere, even then. I did research, joined conference calls, held vendor meetings and wrote and submitted my columns.

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