When Pete and I were in Bozeman recently, we re-connected with a young friend. Happily, he’s found love in a place someone his age might never expect: his business.
Clues You Can Use in Our Services Page
You may have noticed that along with our recent graphics redesign, we’ve reorganized the entire PassingThru site as well. This was done to reflect a narrower focus on simplicity, work-life integration and travel. Somehow we managed to have the redesign coincide with our personal shift to location independence, even with a belated decision leaving us [...]
How I Escaped the Rat Race
Today’s post is from Jamie Simmerman, whose writing service, Blue Duck Copy, creates outstanding Web content and copy for businesses and individuals. Like many young mothers, Jamie was seeking work-life integration by weaving her creative gifts into a flexible fabric that would allow her to prioritize her family life and meaningful work. Here’s how she [...]
The Consequences of Perpetual Indecision and Uncertainty
The most common reaction when Pete and I communicated our decision to go location independent was, “Wow, how did [or what made you] decide to do that?” followed by “I wish I/we could do that!” To which the answer of course is, “Well, you can, you know, you basically just have to decide to (really) [...]
Glimpses of the West
Head west of the Twin Cities and you’ll observe a slow transition from pretty citified to committed farming that merges into downright cowboy-ing. The sky gets bigger and the conditions are exponentially more tough. Remnants of the Old West begin to appear in montage – a conversation at a breakfast counter, a ranch’s driveway with [...]

Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life.