Most countries treat Permanent Tourists better than citizens.
As a PT, a permanent tourist, you can usually live and travel in better style and for less money than it costs to remain where you are. You can also chose to enjoy places that encourage the life style you have always dreamed of living.
As a Perpetual Tourist you can run your own life. Using freedom tools such as three flag theory you can put a significant distance between yourself and sedentary bureaucrats that want to determine what is best for you.
Start today on the path to owning your own life.
Enjoy this fine flash presentation of the attitude needed to move forward in personal freedom.
As a sovereign individual PT can mean anything you want - and you can change the meaning of PT as often as you wish. You may even discover a transitional sequence in the PT meanings you choose.
Permanent Traveler
Perpetual Tourist
Prior Taxpayer
Passing Through
Party Time
Possibility Thinker
Preparing for Tomorrow
Paper Tripper
Point Taken
Possessing Tranquility
Personal Truth
Perception Transformed
Post Tyranny
Personal Territory
Priorities Targeted
Potential Trebled
The Bully
consider a third choice
Do you remember that big kid grabbing a small toy you were enjoying and holding it behind her back? She then put both hands behind her back and said "guess which hand it's in, right or left, and you can have it back."
Both of you knew it didn't matter which hand you chose - she would keep your toy in the other hand - and show the now empty hand you had picked.
It's happening again.
Governments around the world have snatched your freedom and are saying "guess which political party will provide liberty and safety to your land, right or left, and you can be free of stealing, intrusive, arrogant government."
Pick your hand or party -
it will be empty.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." - Benjamin Franklin
"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." - Colin Wilson
Don't let yourself be an average cow. Don't let the limits of what you have been taught, and the experiences you were allowed, constrain your perceptions.
"The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side." - Theodore J. Forstmann
The leaders of your country of birth claim to own you. They treat you as their cow; to be herded, branded, milked, and slaughtered as it pleases them. All governments must take more than they can give. When government powers expand; the more it will take forcefully, the less it will share back grandly.
There are few that can step aside and let their designated herd stampede past. To those a warning may be unnecessary; while within the herd, frenzied cattle will ignore it.
What do you do with this knowledge? Can you do it today?
Will you own your own life.?
individual sovereignty books are an important freedom resource
"Even a pack rat has two exits from its nest." - Louis L'Amour
Research the ideas and foundations of PT, the modern personal liberty movement. Find your family a Thought Castle before a need arises.
Recommend are e-book downloads of a collection centered on Dr. W.G. Hill's classic P.T. -- The Permanent Tourist, with updates by Peter Trevellian (PT).
The following are also excellent reads to help discover your Personally Tailored, PT lifestyle.
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne
"No matter what happens, you're smarter than the government. You're more flexible than the government. And you have more incentive to make your life work well than government employees have to make government work well - or even to make it work at all."3 points
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
An interesting look at what may be next for the Netcohort.2 points
How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition) by J.J. Luna
More current than Boston T. Party's "Bulletproof Privacy;" click to compare them on amazon.2 points
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
A serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-to guide.2 points
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey by Ken Schoolland
Great for kids or adults.1 point
Bulletproof Privacy: How to Live Hidden, Happy and Free! by Boston T. Party
A good book on the basics of reclaiming your privacy. A lot of ideas - many of them you should apply now.1 point
Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary by Danielle Babb
Got degrees? Traveling and teaching online are a natural pair.1 point
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
Vagabonding Veteran shoestring traveler Rolf Potts shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel.1 point
The Zurich Axioms by M Gunther
As a PT you will probably need a business that moves with you or investments that will support you. The Zurich Axioms is the best overall investment book I've found.0 points
Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution by Claire Wolfe
Humorously Hard-hitting - this is a good read to gain understanding of how some see our changing world.0 points
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." - Voltaire
Experience freedom by creating your own PT life. Start replacing your depreciating assets and time limited lifestyle - start accumulating satisfying memories.
"No great man of letters is absorbed by the stream in which he swims." - Chaim Potok
There are many ways to find a bit of freedom in this slavery prone world. Preparing a back door exit would be wise. You can PT part time, or just understand individual sovereignty so as to be ready in a crises. There are plenty of crises coming that may get too close for comfortable viewing.
As a warning: if you are leaving a country in trouble, don't stop in a neighboring country - you might be classed as a refugee instead of a tourist. If you are trapped in a Diaspora, quietly separate yourself from the masses being herded along. A few refugees are a novelty; but as numbers increase refugees become political pawns and are frequently resented and oppressed, .
Find your own Thought Castle for your family's future safety. Set up a savings account outside your country of residence, and perhaps a Swiss gold account. There are lot's of wonderful places to live; plan ahead about where you will be welcomed and appreciated.
There is a growing cadre of expatriates or expats from every nation. Some are just employees that are stationed outside their home country. Others have gone native and found a new home. However, many are discovering greater freedoms and opportunities as global tourists, global residents, and global travelers busy exercising their personal sovereignty.
Wise countries are courting these Netcohort individualists, realizing the productivity and creativity they and their teams infuse into the societies where they live. Tax incentives, economic citizenship, and improved communications infrastructure are some of the inducements being offered. Attracting these entrepreneurial freelancers can drive a moribund economy to a world leadership position.
"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
Expect the competition between countries for expat attention to expand as more netrepreneurs and knowledge workers (the netcohort) go P.T. Also expect a backlash of resentment from over-regulated, highly taxed, repressive regimes suffering from "brain drain." If you are thinking of becoming a Permanent Tourist, sooner is better than later.
As a sovereign individual you decide your priorities. You can even support your country of choice if you wish; there was no virtue in your forced allegiance. "The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cat's teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi
You have the capability to prosper, but you will have to rediscover how to enjoy learning and creating. There are many degrees of freedom, and some people hate freedom simply because it requires personal responsibility. Your life can have meaning, but you might have to free yourself to find it.
It will take effort to become a Permanent Traveler and it will take work to maintain your new PT lifestyle. You will still have to interact with other sovereignties once you start as a perpetual tourist -- but the advantage can now be yours.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Rudyard Kipling
The option is to do nothing and let others make life choices for you. That way is not only hard, it is humiliating and dangerous. Supporters of a human hive resent your natural individual sovereignty and are looking for ways to neuter it and you permanently.
George said it better than I can -- "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
Is your current government the people's servant or their master?
rediscovery
"Freedom feels like something we once knew, but have long forgotten." - Allan Wallace
Tip A Bureaucrat For Liberty
as fun as cow tipping and tractor tipping, but with greater purpose

Pushing aside niceties of evasion received during your compulsory education programing; a bureaucrats real job is directed application of oppression.
Think independently about popularized ideals and you can free yourself from coercive external influences. Liberty is first created and sustained on a personal level - create a bit more in your own life - then spread it and help others.
"The more individuals knowledgeably expanding their freedom, the more secure our own freedoms become." - Allan Wallace
One tool for increasing personal liberty and improving your own life is to start a technology based business. Find an area that is poorly served by bureaucracies and develop a natural enterprise to provide a better choice. Both you and others will benefit from your efforts.
As a PT your technology based business can provide a source of income located on the internet, allowing you to move about as you wish.
"The risks and the rewards from creative enterprise are greater, and of far more value to society, than illusions of security and belonging that enslave human cogs in social machines. - Allan R. Wallace
Todays task - find a collectivist bureaucracy and take a bit of its air - speeding up its deflation. Use technology and your creativity to provide a better solution to just one need they currently serve poorly. Huge bureaucracies are doomed, the growth of sovereign hackers will see to that.
With Bastiat Free University we are creating a college level learning experience for visionaries and entrepreneurs. It will not happen quickly, but if you listen carefully you can hear a bit of air being released from over-inflated educational bureaucracies.
The historical trends give us a back wind. The ending of the industrial age will decrease economies of scale that rewarded huge organizational size. Technology empowered individuals will shape the future. The Bureaucratic Epoch is ending.
When you decide to own your own life your first step is that desire to be free. You then must turn a critical eye toward those that claim your allegiance. Ask yourself - "Am I more dedicated to them than they are to me?"
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche
If something evil is starting to fall - it should be tipped. Instead of remaining an owned cow based on the accident of your birth location, find freedom like an elk through bureaucrat tipping.
As a PT -- shape your own future!
bureaucratic purpose
Bureaucrats farm taxes, fees, and penalties so elites and their courtesans can feast at laden tables.
We are witnessing the death throes of bureaucracies.
A humorous video about disintermediation - whatever that is
The needs of the individual were pushed aside as the needs of greater society were addressed. It became increasingly difficult for individuals to invent, create, and produce needed change. Centralized management abhors non-linear change.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
The liberties of free market empowerment eliminated plague and famine in much of the world. Sadly open societies are once again becoming closed and less individualistic as the crumbling dynasties of the industrial age seek to maintain their power.
"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating." - C. F. Bastiat
Governments have become dangerous leviathans on a blind rampage as their strength diminishes. Their denial of already inflicted mortal wounds causes them to seek greater power to perpetuate their privileges.
Of paramount importance to your future is not the history or the acclimations of virtue proclaimed by your current residence. What matters is the direction of state control as demonstrated by their actions.
"Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private." - Lyndon B. Johnson
It is a time to be cautious and to prepare emergency plans.
For now enjoy the much lighter "Twilight Zone" tone of this short video.
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Day of the Longtail
Movie Trailer: In celebration of the publication of Chris Anderson's book, "The Long Tail," The old world of media faces an invasion from another planet. The horror. The horror. (By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum) http://www.thelongtail.com/ More info: Chris's book examines the economic models for distributing content. It's now possible to move from having a few megahits controlled by a limited number of publishers to having thousands even millions of titles available all the time. YouTube is a big part of this revolution. We made this video from the perspective of the old line media companies who might view the Long Tail revolution as a threat.
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Directions
"Leave paths that force you to walk in the wrong direction." - Allan Wallace
Select a city or country you think may value your preferred life style
Discover your own Personally Tested and Personally Tasted lifestyle.
Start by picking your time and place - start exploring new cultures; enjoy discovering the many joys of a new location. In three flag theory, these locations will be your playgrounds - and again I say, enjoy.
Study abroad and learn to appreciate other's life styles. There are huge variations between cultures; no one can consider themselves well educated until they start sampling and appreciating the differences.
Peasants remain where they were born, one overlord often as bad as any other. If instead you hope to enjoy freedom, that is life without the old bosses. Moving may be an important first step toward liberty.
You may not find a place that suits you better, but don't you want to know if such a place exists? Keep an open mind, there are beautiful cities filled with small minded, intolerant people; and other cites that welcome all and seek to bask in wisdom and understanding. The same city may perceive you differently on subsequent visits. Reflect on what you left, and openly consider what lies below the surface where you journey.
In some cultures elders are esteemed for the wisdom they have hopefully acquired - in others they are dropped off in "managed care facilities" and ignored. Where could you age most gracefully, where would you prefer to retire?
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet." - Lord Chesterfield
Still undecided? First consider what type of clothes you would like to wear, then explore locales where your new clothes will be appropriate.
enjoy
You can find your freedom, you can return to liberty.
Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris
Shadows and Light DVD Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays, Don Alias
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I'd like to hear what you have to say.
Your freedom will keep decreasing unless you expend effort to expand it.
If you like to drive fast - go to a country without speed limits. If the 1960's life style sounds good - move to Amsterdam. Somewhere in the world what you value is not against the law, in fact it may make you a hero.
Like medieval serfs, most people will live and die within a stones throw of where they were born. Imagine never wanting to discover if there is a much better life for you and yours just over the next hill. A few years living in other countries will fill the rest of your life with irreplaceable memories.
"What can he know of England who only England knows?" - Rudyard Kipling
Even if you are in the best place for you, wouldn't you like to know by having knowledgeably eliminated other choices?
Live your own life.
Where would you like to explore and discover first? It's time for your road trip!
Tipi wrote...
Aw, I understand sovereign individual. Would like to become a more blessed one.
This is full of great information and quotes and will take time to go through...
I was thinking of you earlier today and than got an email saying you had visited Seth.
Well, as you might guess you are featured in the SusRod section! Love you humor and witt!!!
Susie
Spook wrote...
You are such a gift Allan and this is music to my ears. Somehow I think that what you are saying has nothing to do with travel. But one gets old and the country you thought might be a beacon for liberty turns out to be just another bureaucracy and a bad one at that. So in the end you jump on the bandwagon and even then you fall through all the cracks but eventually it comes to pass. Then they decide to tighten the the budget and you are the first scapegoat. I'm so lost but thank you for giving me a glimmer of hope, it's just that they have us by the short hairs.
RinchenChodron wrote...
Perpetual tourism sounds wonderful! and tempting!!!! Good luck getting to 100 lenses!
StephMJohnson wrote...
My future is definitely in PT :) Loved reading your lens!
BFuniv.com wrote...
in reply to Juergen Congratulations!
You can do the same with a valuable skill; but a web based business has low expenses, can be adapted at need, and is transportable. The PT lifestyle is available to those that appreciate opportunities and liberty.
That is why I mentioned One Week Marketing internet business training earlier. Start now - work to build a business - enjoy freedom for the rest of your life.
Juergen wrote
My 10 week travel through NewZealand is about ending soon and I must say this PT idea is now more appealing to me than ever before - fortunately I could work from my laptop promoting my managedforex.com portal site and I am so glad I can do this from any place in the world that has internet access. So why not chose the nicest spots in the world for this.
John_Doe wrote...
Wow, this lens is absolutely fantastic, it looks very professional
Eliezer Martinez wrote
I first heard of PT three years ago when I joined a private club known as SovereignLife. But also at that time I was recovering from a hemorrhagic stroke that kept me from traveling as I used to do. I regret not knowing about it before, but as our individual liberties keep eroding every day and life in America is becoming less free with greater government interference, I support this idea for all future generations. I dream of a time when man could be really free from governmental servitude and live a happy life, respecting the freedom and life of others.
daria369 wrote...
I can easily feel at home anywhere so becoming a PT is my thing indeed... :)
Great lens!
Ener-G wrote...
Great lens created by great, original thinking. I've lensrolled you to How To Buy Real Estate in Mexico (and everything you need to know about living there).
dodie_cross wrote...
This is a very interesting lens. You make some interesting points for the permanent tourist lifestyle. I'd love for you to stop by my lens on living abroad in Thailand when you have a chance.
aquariann wrote...
Great lens. Very interesting idea, but not quite for me. I like to travel, but it's always nice to come home.
Peter the PT wrote
Excellent lens on an interesting topic! I've read most of the books mentioned and would recommend The Sovereign Individual in particular. In terms of more practical application, you haven't mentioned the Bye Bye Big Brother book, published in the US by Vera Verba or in Brazil by Global Liberty Publishing. There is also another recommended resource for PTs, which is The Q Wealth Report. www.QWealthReport.com (I can't put hyper links here because they are not allowed, but enter any of these terms in Google and you will find them immediately) Greetings from somewhere offshore!
a_willow wrote...
I think each person is free as much as he/she let herself/himself. It's more state of mind. And I don't really care about politics. I live in a country where people decided that they will no longer live in community with other nations 18 years ago. Now these people wants to join EU. So we are changing one community for another. Makes me wonder - why we even had war if we'll end up in community with there same countries in few years. Stupidity rules!
Bunta wrote...
Never heard of the PT movement. Thanks for the primer! A world without boundaries and complete personal liberty is a great concept.
The_Homeopath wrote...
I adore traveling and seeing new places, but somehow I'm just too "Dorothy" on the inside - There's No Place Like Home. The sky is always looming over me and the mountains are in the distance to comfort me.
lakeerieartists wrote...
I love traveling, and wish I could do it more often.
ByRoy wrote...
Great idea, I have travelled in the past but not as much as I would like, maybe one day I will free myself of the ties of modern life and go for it!
DividingLine wrote...
Nice idea - perhaps it really is possible. Certainly something to aim for instead of the usual retirement.
saraht43 wrote...
Interesting concept, just don't have the finances to back it up, maybe someday. ;p
dandepp wrote...
I see you have been reading BBBB! ;o) This is my goal, to become a PT through income derived from online activities. Travelling is such an educational experience I believe it is vital in order to become a well rounded individual. Thanks for this lens - a definite 5 stars and Im a fan!
susannaduffy wrote...
An interesting concept, appealing but out of my financial league. Sigh
Portable_eBay wrote...
I just want to see the Great Wall of China. After that others come next... 5*
CubicleJoe wrote...
Fundamentally I agree with your concepts in theory. No one owns us but ourselves. However, reality dictates that making a living (or a comfortable one that is), owns our present and future circumstances (i.e. retirement). Financial freedom = freedom to do the things that you normally cannot in life. When you have to work for a living, your choices in life are restricted.
BeautifulDreamer wrote...
Very cool! I had never heard of the concept of being a PT before - 5*!
ArtByLinda wrote...
I would love to be a permanent tourist, I love to travel and see new countries and places, great lens. Linda
surfchicky23 wrote...
It is true that when you travel, you feel free and powerful to do whatever you want. Interesting post.
EverythingMouse wrote...
This is certainly an interesting idea. I travel a lot and the more I do certainly the more I want to see of the world.
WritingforYourWealth wrote...
It's interesting to think that in today's world, with more and more of us making a living off virtual assets, that we truly could roam anywhere in the world and be permanent tourists. :)
beachbum_gabby wrote...
yes, I agree! "Live your own life."
and live life to the fullest because life is too short to be wasted! :)
annetteghallowell wrote...
I love this lens! Truly- this is what I am striving for. I just came back from 2 1/2 years in Malaysia and can't wait for my next adventure. Thanks for reminding me how great exploration is. 5* favorite for me!
markbestweb wrote...
Permanent Traveler here! Tourists learn and teach while traveling. It's great to find a lens that invites people to keep traveling. I usually perform a bit of research before starting walking to my next stop. I think that some sites like Galicia Tourism helps a Permanent Traveler to know about the wonders that will find when arriving to the next pit stop. Cheers for your great job!
WesJefferson wrote...
BFuniv, your lens are excellent. First I saw your Ayn Rand lens and now this. Please, keep extolling your knowledge of individual liberty and freedom. I appreciate this greatly.
The BFU Weekly Journal
Documenting the creation of a new type of college. Not only for perpetual tourists; but for anyone wanting to think, not just follow.
If your freedom is important, you will want to consider all the implications involved.
A sample:
Perhaps the twined concepts of starting your own business and picking up knowledge as needed through BFU and other valuable resources is a bit too informal for you.
I would ask you to consider where you acquired your appreciation of formal education. Those years you spent feeding at the required public trough were offered with a purpose.
You have been intellectually fattened to remove any potential for strenuous individual mental activity. It will never be considered valuable to any bureaucracy, such as the schools you were forced to endure, to allow consideration that you might exist just fine without its coercive ministrations.
If what government approved institutions offer is truly valuable to any but themselves, would they make laws forcing it upon us and have to steal from our paychecks to support it? Would they so bend society as to create flaccid axioms intoning the value they offer, all tied to "success." Would they provide student loans and other inducements to trade in your freedoms for promises of an ersatz life of herd like conspicuous consumption?
Has the forcefully limited thinking of others been used to shape your thoughts?
Ah, but I have made you uncomfortable. Ignore the previous and rejoin the corpulent herd; your hungry shepherds, the wolves, miss your compliance within their rituals.
The BFU Journal has been supplanted by a combination of BFuniv at twitter and educational Squidoo lenses - but the archives are still valuable.
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