Several centuries ago, many places celebrated the start of the new year in March, not January.

March was originally the first month of the year, according to the Romans,

which is why the Latin numbers for 7, 8, 9, and 10 all appear in the months of September, October, November, and December.

That however is no longer the case.

March is now the third month, and it means the end of the first fiscal quarter, the beginning

of spring in the northern hemisphere, first fiscal quarter, the beginning of spring in the

northern hemisphere, and of course questions and answers. So join me today as I

march into your questions on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Let's get right into things. The first question comes from Michelle Jocks who asks,

what is your favorite topic to learn about?

Well, there isn't one single topic,

and I think you can probably gather from the nature of this podcast

that my interests are all over the place.

What I'm interested in is going to change all the time.

I've gone through different phases of what I've been interested in throughout my whole life.

When I was in junior high school, I read voraciously about the space program. When I was younger than that I memorized statistics about

baseball. Before I started traveling I had a large coral reef aquarium where I learned about

marine biology and the behavior of corals and an enemies. When the pandemic started I started to teach

myself Latin, a subject for which I still have a long way to go. I think this is

really the best way to become an auto-dyed act or a self- learner. You have to follow whatever your interests are and be willing

to move on to something new when your interests change.

Jeremy Sparks asks, how did you fund your decade of travel? I don't mean to delve into your

personal finances, but it's so expensive to go to the places that are so distant and

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