Five years ago I used to spend 2 hours of my day commuting to and from work. 🚗 A lot of people used to ogle at my travel pictures online, and I did fit in a decent amount of traveling between work trips and strategically using my 10 vacation days, but the truth is that most of the year I wasn’t climbing mountains in Switzerland or sipping cocktails in Bali. Most of the year I was sitting in traffic on the Schuylkill Expressway. 🚦 And when you spend two hours a day (or sometimes more) sitting in a car eating snacks over the steering wheel and dreaming about far away places, it doesn’t leave you time for much else. It was waking up early to beat traffic, driving, working 8 hours, more driving, gym if I had the energy and then falling asleep and doing it all again. Sometimes things become so routine that you don’t realize that you need a change. You don’t realize there are other options. 🧐 Everyone on this app constantly asks me what I do for work, but what I do isn’t really as important as how I do it. I work remotely so I can pretty much work from anywhere with a wifi connection. 💻 The picture above is from a trip I took to Washington last year, where I worked everyday from different locations and took off hiking in the afternoons. 🥾 I was able to see Washington on my own terms without any time limits or docked pay, and let’s be honest, if I’m commuting anywhere it’s going to be to the mountains. 🏔 How do you find time to work and travel? 📍North Cascades NP, WA