I haven’t done a lot on this blog over the last year or two because it always seemed like I was busy but I do indeed to post a lot of Saipan memories and Saipan commentary once I do leave the island. Sometimes it’s hard to talk about feelings in such a small town environment because of fear of stepping on toes by what I might inadvertently say. Hopefully, I can come out and make a few posts that could be very beneficial to other people coming onto Saipan in the future.

I figure anything to help me out is a good thing, ya know?

Making money while abroad is still the name of the game and while it might get challenging going forward, I really think there are more exciting ways to make money abroad than there are making money back home.

Bangkok: More Than Just The Nightlife
Chiang Mai: Royal City of The North
Koh Samui: The Coconut Island
Phuket: Jewel Of Thailand

I am open to submission of guest articles to my article section as long as it fits into the site’s direction. Just contact me with your idea and I’ll give you a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Sure there are places that I’d love to go and visit. I’d love to take a cross country trip with the family to see some of the great places I traveled to alone, but that can wait until Christmas time. Right now I am enjoying the sites and wonders of this place.

I have went ahead and put in a couple of the pictures me and my wife have taken over the last year and a half here. I think you’ll enjoy them.

As some of you may know, I have Type II Diabetes and I am overweight. My health is not very good and I found myself in the hospital a couple of weeks ago. I knew that I needed to make some serious changes in my life to improve my health. I immediately eliminated Coca Cola and several other sources of calories and started eating right. I also started doing a lot of walking and hiking.

It’s just starting but I really hope that it can serve as a way to encourage other people to lose weight and get their health back in shape. If you want to check out the site, then go ahead and click on Better Living Quest.

I think most of this is motivated by the fact that I am giving a lot of time to Facebook. I am posting links there and generally doing work to help their bottom line. It’s time I make sure that I am doing something for my own bottom line.

Here are some of the Pros of Living in Saipan:

1) They have their own taxing structure and residents don’t pay US federal income tax.

2) It’s a USPS Domestic mail destination.

3) US citizens can live and work in Saipan without any need for a visa.

Here are some of the Cons of Living in Saipan:
1) Only people of native CNMI descent can own land here. This means that while US citizens from the mainland can live and work here, they can’t own property.

2) It’s far from the mainland. Things take longer to reach here, for example TV is delayed 1 week from the mainland.

3) It’s a small island. Need I say more?

Just some things to think about if you are anxious to get to a tropical destination, but unable or unwilling to make the plunge out of the US entirely.

What is Squidoo? Squidoo is a service that allows you to make a single page website on a single, highly targeted topic. A Squidoo lens will get you traffic and link juice and only takes a few minutes to make. They several modules that you can to help drive traffic to your site while keeping the lens fresh and active.

I have several lenses up and running right now on topics as varied as El Paso, gold prospecting and even Saipan business.

It’s easy to start up a lens so I think a warning is in order. It can become addictive. You’ll want to limit yourself to just one or two new lenses per day to keep yourself from taking away too much of the time you should be devoting to your main income sites.

About making money on Squidoo? It’s best for links and traffic. While you can earn royalties from the traffic to your lens, the earnings seem quite low. As long as you keep focused on the aspects that will make you the most money, you should be just fine.