Hi, I’m Blake. Welcome to my little corner of the web.
🐿️ In a nutshell
I’m a traveling writer and experiential educator with a deep love for adventure.
42 years old. California native, currently living in Europe, working on a new podcast and book called Dirtbag Rich.
My life is low-income, high-freedom, and filled with nature, travel, dance, and friends. Read more at The Adventures of Blake.
I believe that a surprising number of kids don’t need school to become happy or successful adults: an idea I’ve explored through books, speaking, podcasting, and my Unschool Adventures trips for teenagers.
Enjoy the nooks and crannies of this personal/professional website.
✍️ Recent writing
- Dirtbag Rich: an update
- Perpetual Motion Machine
- I Hate Ads, and You Can Too
- Bus Station Interview
- You Must Live on the Edge of the Wilderness
- 2024 in Review
- The Moment I Knew I Was Free
- It’s Hard to Settle Down
- The Lodge
- I’m Writing a New Book
- America vs. Europe
- How Do You Know When You’re Rich?
- Conflicted Thoughts about Having Kids
- The Carretera Austral
- 81 Adventure Challenges for Young People
“Being a writer is an act of perpetual self-authorization.”
—Verlyn Klinkenborg
“The true risks of travel are disappointment and transformation: the fear you’ll be the same person when you go home, and the fear you won’t.”
—Kate Harris
Top photo: Camino de Sharkiago, 2022