Alright, it’s no secret that I think traveling is one of the best ways to Make Your Own Lunch™  (click here for my true feelings). While traveling, you’ll get to experience stuff that you could  never have experienced sitting on your mom’s sofa watching The Hills or playing Halo 3! And  those experiences are what Make Your Own Lunch™ is all about!

If you Google the words “cheap travel”, you’ll end up getting over 34 million hits! That’s a little intense. Let’s make this a bit easier. Here are my secrets to traveling for less than it cost you to go watch the Hanna Montana movie in a theatre. (You thought nobody saw you?) Read more…

Last year I found myself hanging out on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii at the famous Pipeline Beach. I spent a couple of hours watching some of the best surfers in the world surf the biggest waves I had ever seen. They were BANANAS!  While I was watching the surfers, I noticed this guy who literally just sat there in the water with a camera getting pounded by waves taking pictures of the surfers. I was pretty interested in why anybody would ever want to do that and when he came onto the shore I made sure to talk to him and ask him what he was doing and more importantly, why he was doing it.

After talking to him for a while and he told me he was a surf photographer.  Maybe the best. Job. Ever.

He had a million stories Read more…

Two of the questions I get asked the most by students is, 1) “did your mom really beat up Chuck Norris in a cage match?” and 2) “How did you get to live and work in Japan?”

The answer to the questions are 1) As the legend is told by the Shaolin monks, yes. And more importantly 2) I will tell you how I did it.

I have no idea why I chose Japan. When I was 21, I dropped out of college (I eventually went back and graduated), quit my job at Tom’s No Frills and moved out of my parent’s house. I was broke and on the edge of being homeless.

I knew I had to do something and knowing myself, I knew it would have to be drastic and rip me out of my comfort zone. Read more…

This is it. You asked for it so I deliver it, just like a pizza but with less garlic so you can still kiss someone after consuming it.

The Make Your Own Lunch™ blog.

This is the place for you to come and learn how you can Make Your Own Lunch™. (Psst, hey new guy, Make Your Own Lunch™ isn’t really about food… Click here to learn about it)

This blog is a place where you can learn about what other people have done to Make Their Own Lunch and how you can do the same. You’ll learn about travel, education, money, hygiene (if you have to pause to smell you shirt -and it smells like a Junior Whopper – I’m talking to you) and a lot of other cool stuff.

You wanna learn how you can volunteer in Thailand, working with sick elephants? That will be here here. You wanna know how I got the chance to move to Japan to teach English in the heart of Tokyo or how I backpacked across Europe and Central America? Read more…