About The Author

David Page

David is the Founding Editor of BETA, Matador's new print magazine. His guidebook to Yosemite, the Southern Sierra Nevada and Death Valley earned him a 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, and was named "Best Guidebook of 2008" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California. He has written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Men's Journal and The New York Times. He lives on the edge of one of the largest calderas on earth, in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two boys, and an illegal migrant canine avatar of the Aztec god Xolotl.

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    Very cool list of organizations. The article wasn’t the typical “buy less Starbucks and do more with your life” that most of us have read over a dozen times, but it offered several interesting ways to capitalize on what you do have and what others are willing to let you borrow or rent. Landsharing seems like a cool org, especially for urban areas.

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