Welcome to Kick in the Breeches, a blog at the crossroads of travel and lifestyle design.

When I started blogging 10 years ago the idea of professional bloggers didn’t even exist.  When I started my current blog while living in Korea, I had no idea that one day want to be a part of that group.  I started my blog, DriftingFocus, as a personal travelogue about living on Jindo, a very rural island off the southwestern coast of South Korea.  Eventually, it evolved to include personal content, and when I moved back to the USA in May of 2009, the topic diversified into all my interests: reenacting, lifestyle design, travel, motorcycling, photography, etc.  This gave me a wide audience, but it also made it difficult for me to feel focused in my blogging.  I noticed that a lot of my posts centered around the theme of lifestyle design, and so on a whim, I created Kick in the Breeches Verson 1.0.

Unfortunately, my first version didn’t really capture my blogging creativity the way that my main blog did, and I eventually let it go defunct.  One of the main problems was that I couldn’t find a clear focus or theme for the blog, other than the general sentiment of lifestyle design, and I had a hard time figuring out what posts belonged on which of my blogs.

Recently, though, I have been speaking with several prominent bloggers in the fields of travel and lifestyle design blogging, and I have come to decision to resurrect this blog, with a more clear focus, hopefully embodied by the tagline I have chosen, “Get out and live!”.

One of the biggest griefs I have with both the travel community and the lifestyle design community is that there seems to increasingly be a single vision for both.  I feel that success in life should be determined by achieving what you want to do, not what someone else thinks is best, and I want to give as much advice as possible on this blog in order to help as many people as I can do achieve their goals, whatever size and complexity they may be.

Welcome, and thanks for reading!