Brian Trautman spent years working 60-hour weeks as a software engineer at companies like Microsoft. Eventually, he realized that the best part of his day was the bus ride to and from work. On one of ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed interview with Brian Trautman, a 47-year-old sailor and content creator who lives aboard a sailboat with his wife and daughter. It has been edited for ...

Since then, he's sailed to 46+ different countries and across 4 oceans. Prior to embarking on this journey by sea, Brian worked at Microsoft, eventually leaving to start his own software company. One ...

The Trautmans are living the dream: they’re sailing around the world, docking at dreamy locations where they linger for as long as they want, they can go off-grid for months on end, and dread the very ...

President Obama addressed the nation June 22 to explain his strategy for troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. Of the 100,000 U.S. troops currently deployed there, the announced drawdown of 10,000 soldiers ...