How to Measure Your Wealth
(from: THE DIRECTIONS TO HAPPINESS: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons) Put the currency blues on the run. Before email and cell phones, letter writing was still vital, as many long-term backpackers could rarely afford to call home. Such isolation made Australian hospitality even more welcome, especially after a year in Asia without a turkey hero. In the late 1980s, after a year-long Southeast Asian tour, a college friend and I hitchhiked 1,000 miles up Australia’s […]