Are You A Flexpat?

There is another new breed surfacing as more people drop the traditional lifestyle models and take on new and exciting ways to live cheaply that allow travel to many exciting and exotic locations.

Get Your Kicks on Route 66

An article over at Trusted Housesitters describes the new "Flexpat" trend,
you can read more here

Top 5 benefits of a Flexpat Lifestyle:

1.    Experiencing a range of cultures and lifestyles
2.    Meeting new people and creating lasting relationships worldwide
3.    Excitement and adventure
4.    Flexibility to try different ways of living
5.    Less financial commitment than owning property

Guess after two years with no fixed address I can most certainly add Flexpat as my lifestyle status!

http://blog.trustedhousesitters.com/flexpat-lifestyle/

Everyone Knows Ellie

Bush walk through to the Beach

My Beach and Camel Rock -
look carefully and you'll see the camel

Life's a Beach and Even More People Know Ellie Now!

Going out walking with my new part time pet, well its like being in a rock stars entourage - every time we go for a walk someone stops for a chat with Ellie and I invariably hear the phrase "oh everyone knows Ellie". 

Looking out toward Bermagui

Life's a Beach

Come In?  What's She Talking About?
She Knows I Swim At The Lake NOT the Beach!

Track through the caravan park to the lake

Ellie does her Thorpie imitation -
even if you had video - it would look the same -
she just likes to stand in the water and cool off

A very small part of Lake Wallaga

Never Settle - The Answer Could Be Where You Started!

There is always lessons on the road to not settling.

We landed at LAX this evening and the United terminal is pretty dismal - so I went for a wander seeing I'm going to be sitting for 14 hours straight. I wanted to find an experience like I had at the Alaska terminal some months earlier. They have big long benches where you can sit and work - each bench with multi power points, big tall stools to sit on - they've totally thought the whole process out.

As I wandered the concourse of the three possible terminals none came close, nothing that even bore a passing resemble to a work station.

I passed many people sitting on the floor plugged into the power points the cleaners used. Nearly ready to give up and go the balancing the laptop on the knee trick, the only choice was to go back to the terminal I arrived at.

With nothing better to do I wandered through and discovered a magical sign. "Alaska boardroom this way" As I went through, sure enough, there I was in the Alaska terminal - its quiet, there are heaps of spaces at the desks and all it took was to not settle for the very first terminal. I've set my alarm so I don't forget to get on my flight and I got to go to Ruby's again.

New motto - never settle for what the other folks settle for. Interesting it was just around the corner and I was already there when I landed!

The Part Time Pets LOVE to Help Out at the Puter

The one thing my part time pets seem to have in common, particularly for the smaller ones, is their need to put their IT skills into action and help with the puter.  Its a shame they are not so willing at filing!

"Marcel the Parcel" as I called him was a master at supervising anything going on in the office in the last few days of the sit.  He had surgery before I arrived and was meant to be out of his cone by the time I got there, but he figured out how to get around his first smaller cone, and chewed out all his stitches.  So he was very quiet the first week of the sit, but once he started to feel better - he was right into everything.  Not bad for a three legged rescue cat :-)