1. Create different forms of art in different countries, influenced by the local culture. I think this is such a great creative exercise that can help you grow in addition to travelling!
3. Live on a tropical island and try to live a very simple and minimalistic life with very little material possessions, just to see how much it would change me as a person
4. Go around the world to source my own coffee beans and tea leaves and combine them with unusual flavours to see what I can discover… I’ve always wondered what blueberry coffee tastes like
Buy a sick piece of land close by the ocean and build a bunch of tiny homes with a courtyard in the middle and have family and friends stay there. Like a wholesome cult
I just want to live a simple life in my small beach town of Morro Bay. I'd support our local businesses and create art to fill our galleries. I'd wander the land and linger in the markets. I'd sponsor young people to gain skills in their desired trades. I'd make sure everyone was warm and fed. I've traveled and I love it...and I have always loved coming home too. I suppose I'd finally put in that hot tub I've always wanted and get weekly massages. Simple, good life.
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What would you do if money was no object?
quit my 9-to-5 job, write a fantasy/magical realism novel.
i want to check out different places around the world known for their walkable communities and pedestrian infrastructure, like scandinavia and the netherlands.
i also want to build solarpunk technology and turn it into a business maybe. besides that, i would work more on improving my landscape oil painting skills, maybe live in the mediterranean (italy, greece, turkey, morocco, egypt) for a few years, or become a scuba diver to assist with research in coral reef bleaching.
I would curate the cleanest / unmolested cars from the 80s, 90s, and early 00s and cycle them through a showroom / coffee shop in the city. I would also do whatever it took to close off the city streets for a time trial section - we've all created the track in our heads, but it would be time to actually put rubber down. Also, travel. Travel as much as possible.
If money was no object, I would buy a school bus, convert it into a fancy mobile home with a bookshelf wall that would fold up for when the bus was moving, and travel around Turtle Island with my two cats. I would stay at National parks and write the young adult fiction novel that's been swimming around in my head for years.
I would contribute to communities that brought me joy instead of choosing the ones that pay me the most. I would travel as much as possible. I would take my mom to her hometown in Ireland. I'd visit my friends around the world.
Palm Report featuring the 'Thais doing things' Instagram account is certainly a great way to make my day!
As for if money was no object, I don't know if I'd change much other than use it to spend more time with my wife (maybe reduce her work hours - we both find work very fulfilling so think we'd still want to do something), and definitely to head home to see family or get them over here a bit more often!
Travel up and down the coast to small seaside towns with my toddler, doing my best to see the world fresh through her eyes and giving her memories of salty sea air, clam chowder, pelicans and sand in between her toes. Like everything with young children this would be done very slloowwwy hence the need to have unlimited free time (aka money is no object)
I'd buy a ridiculously huge house, like, 15 bedrooms or something and create a place where all my creative friends can stay, rent free to work together on creative projects.
Friends can come and go as they please, the fridges are always stacked, there's camera equipment and music equipment, we host release parties and screenings for everyone's new projects. It'd be a wonderful hub of creative people doing creative things. We'd host events, document the best summer of our lives and create a community that can thrive without the weight of money or the general rigmarole that comes with adult life.
What I would do if money was no object:
1. Create different forms of art in different countries, influenced by the local culture. I think this is such a great creative exercise that can help you grow in addition to travelling!
2. Provide community support to creatives like [SuperHi](https://www.superhibasicincome.com/) did
3. Live on a tropical island and try to live a very simple and minimalistic life with very little material possessions, just to see how much it would change me as a person
4. Go around the world to source my own coffee beans and tea leaves and combine them with unusual flavours to see what I can discover… I’ve always wondered what blueberry coffee tastes like
5. Acquire as many mid-century modern houses as I can around the globe like these https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/1567990140810797062 | https://twitter.com/zillowgonewild/status/1554868151715876872 | https://twitter.com/Dan_Cassaro/status/1527381436046929920
Buy a sick piece of land close by the ocean and build a bunch of tiny homes with a courtyard in the middle and have family and friends stay there. Like a wholesome cult
I just want to live a simple life in my small beach town of Morro Bay. I'd support our local businesses and create art to fill our galleries. I'd wander the land and linger in the markets. I'd sponsor young people to gain skills in their desired trades. I'd make sure everyone was warm and fed. I've traveled and I love it...and I have always loved coming home too. I suppose I'd finally put in that hot tub I've always wanted and get weekly massages. Simple, good life.
What would you do if money was no object?
quit my 9-to-5 job, write a fantasy/magical realism novel.
i want to check out different places around the world known for their walkable communities and pedestrian infrastructure, like scandinavia and the netherlands.
i also want to build solarpunk technology and turn it into a business maybe. besides that, i would work more on improving my landscape oil painting skills, maybe live in the mediterranean (italy, greece, turkey, morocco, egypt) for a few years, or become a scuba diver to assist with research in coral reef bleaching.
I would curate the cleanest / unmolested cars from the 80s, 90s, and early 00s and cycle them through a showroom / coffee shop in the city. I would also do whatever it took to close off the city streets for a time trial section - we've all created the track in our heads, but it would be time to actually put rubber down. Also, travel. Travel as much as possible.
I was waiting for a Palm Report to mention City Pop. Feels very appropriate. Thanks.
If money was no object, I would buy a school bus, convert it into a fancy mobile home with a bookshelf wall that would fold up for when the bus was moving, and travel around Turtle Island with my two cats. I would stay at National parks and write the young adult fiction novel that's been swimming around in my head for years.
I would contribute to communities that brought me joy instead of choosing the ones that pay me the most. I would travel as much as possible. I would take my mom to her hometown in Ireland. I'd visit my friends around the world.
I'd sleep more and look at screens less.
Palm Report featuring the 'Thais doing things' Instagram account is certainly a great way to make my day!
As for if money was no object, I don't know if I'd change much other than use it to spend more time with my wife (maybe reduce her work hours - we both find work very fulfilling so think we'd still want to do something), and definitely to head home to see family or get them over here a bit more often!
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“What you would do if money was no object...”
I’d love to do three things:
1. Continue traveling around the world (top places I’d like to visit next are South Korea, Sweden, and England).
2. Spend most of my free time reading, writing, and exercising.
3. Learn how to cook some of the most amazing dishes, and then try to open up a small cafe in my hometown of Guadalupe, California.
Buy a teeeeny tiny island and build a eco friendly villa on it and have all my friends and family come to stay. I’d also open up my own cake shop.
Travel up and down the coast to small seaside towns with my toddler, doing my best to see the world fresh through her eyes and giving her memories of salty sea air, clam chowder, pelicans and sand in between her toes. Like everything with young children this would be done very slloowwwy hence the need to have unlimited free time (aka money is no object)
I'd buy a ridiculously huge house, like, 15 bedrooms or something and create a place where all my creative friends can stay, rent free to work together on creative projects.
Friends can come and go as they please, the fridges are always stacked, there's camera equipment and music equipment, we host release parties and screenings for everyone's new projects. It'd be a wonderful hub of creative people doing creative things. We'd host events, document the best summer of our lives and create a community that can thrive without the weight of money or the general rigmarole that comes with adult life.