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January 24, 2017 1 min read by James Kelley

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A 10-day trip to Belize changed everything: I quit my office job, sold everything I owned and left to live abroad in 2013. Now I work from anywhere with wifi, hike rain forests and volcanoes, scuba dive, photograph wildlife and go field herping for wild snakes and frogs.

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