Project Hitchhiker | travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design
welcome to my blog
Project Hitchhiker is the online creative outlet of Mike H.
Mike’s adventures have taken him across 3 continents, including driving a motorcycle for 6 months across Southeast Asia, hitchhiking across Canada and Japan, and walking 1000 miles along the coastline of Nova Scotia.
Mike’s passions are music, travel and motorcycles (in that order).
Mike’s dislikes include writing about himself in the third person.
This site is a collection of his travels, stories and adventures in lifestyle design.
I’m a shameless promoter, I know. But I need to take this time to point out a few friends that are accomplishing awesome things right now.
Firstly, there’s my buddy Dave Lowe over in Vietnam who released his first travel novel, the hilarious Sandwiches Should Never Taste Like Cow Crap. I read a bunch of the advance chapters when he was editing it and I laughed my ass off.
I’ve recommended the book The Four Hour Workweek to pretty much everyone I’ve talked to in the past few weeks, not because I think that everyone should go the route of starting their own internet business, but because there are so many useful lifestyle changes that anyone can take from it.
My good friend Josh wrote me about the changes he’s making since starting his Four Hour Workweek:
Mike,
It’s monday and I’m checking my email, one of the two times that I’ve been checking my email. I haven’t watched tv today. I’m opening my spanish txt book tonight and starting to learn. I want to be fluent for Cuba. I called the guy that runs www.camerasforhealing.com and he’s interested in taking me to Sierra Leone. I cleaned out my RSS feeds, I’ve stopped visiting forums, going on facebook more than once a day to check for msgs and business related issues. I got all of my processing done as well as paper work in only 2 hours. I’ve read about 2/3 of the book, officially starting it on Saturday and most of the reading on Sunday, it’s had a major impact already. I’ve made notes throughout it as well as written ideas in the front cover. I have a few good ideas for businesses.
