If we’d have told you 12 months ago that a year from now you’d have purchased a ghost town, fished from a helicopter, chased a bear and... shopped on the Internet, you’d have said that sounds like a pretty good year. Well, guess what: it was a pretty good year.
Of all the things you procured from the Internet this year, the two handsomest came courtesy of Seedstore (with their NorCal casualness) and Trunk Clothiers (with their British refinement). So, if you think of it, maybe email them a thank-you card or something.
Social media. It’s great when it helps people around the world connect to discover common interests. Two of this year’s best examples: Easynest, which linked you up with overly friendly travelers looking to share a hotel suite. And Bang With Friends, an app that... pretty sure you know what that one did.
It almost seems impossible that you accomplished so much in one year. Must’ve been thanks to tools like Digipill, which gave you productivity-enhancing audio clips to download, and NeverLate, which synced your personal calendar with GPS data to keep you punctual. Or it was thanks to deer antler spray.
By Land: You discovered FlightCar and profited from renting out your vehicle while you
traveled.
By Sea: You put that captain’s hat to good use by borrowing a yacht via Boatbound. You
knew that thing would come in handy someday.
Remember that time your bucket list still included things like BASE jumping in Arches National Park, heli-fishing in Alaska and/or stalking wild animals in Wyoming? Yeah, felt like a year ago to us, too.
There’s no place like home. Except for the slopeside mansion you stayed a week at in Steamboat and the sultan-worthy tent you temporarily lived out of in the middle of the Utah desert and the futuristic rolling huts in Washington. But besides that, home. Totally home.
At one point, buying an entire ghost town along with a decommissioned Air Force One jet probably seemed like a good idea. However, it wasn’t until much later that you realized it was a tad impulsive. Of course, by then you didn’t care because you owned the president’s plane.
