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We’ve traveled for years. When John and I first met, we traveled with a band (he worked as a professional musician at that time). Then, a few years after Lydian was born, we sold almost everything and packed up what was left to travel full-time in an RV. We stayed in the United States for our travels when we were young. But when Lydian turned 10, we started traveling overseas. With each year that passed, we ...
In our digital age, where online banking is a ho-hum everyday sort of thing, you’d think that traveling and managing your funds would be easy and straightforward. But it’s not. When we first started traveling, many of our debit cards didn’t work when we were abroad. And since having loans is the anti-thesis of travel, we were also really low on credit cards. But since our earliest days of travel, we’ve ...
For the past three years, since 2014, Lydian has been going to college for her associate's degree. Since she was homeschooled and she tested high on her entrance exam, a local community college admitted her to work on her studies at the age of 14. Originally, she worked as a non-degree seeking student until she was old enough to declare a degree. In May of 2017, at age 17, she graduated with her associate's ...
In this video, John talks a little bit about the realities of working remotely. John works as a web programmer most of the time, but he's been the CTO of several large companies in different countries including the U.S. and Sweden. He's been working as a freelance web developer for a long enough period of time that he doesn't have to solicit for work most of the year, but the work is still "work". It's not ...
A lot of people think that working remotely is something people do on the beach or in their pajamas, but it actually takes a lot of motivation to get up in the morning and go after freelance work, or deal with freelance work that comes in unpredictably. Jennifer works online as a freelance writer for a number of different clients. She's carved out a niche as a medical writer, but she's done work on topics ...
These computers were stolen from this vacation rental in the middle of the night just a few days after this video was taken in Progreso, Yucatan. It was the first time we'd ever been robbed, which was part of the nomadic lifestyle learning curve. A few days after the robbery, a main pipe burst at our house in the United States. It was flooded for three days before someone discovered it. We learned about it ...
None of us work in our pajamas. And we've never taken our laptops to the beach (that would be stupid). But we do get to have our two cats, Garfield and Babylonia around us all the time, which is nice. There are lots of perks to being a digital nomad, like getting to choose your company and whether you do your work at a desk or sitting in your favorite recliner. Still, the digital nomad lifestyle isn't ...
All of us work remotely whether we're at home or abroad. John is a computer programmer. I'm a writer. At the time of these videos, Lydian was studying online for her associate's degree (which has since been completed). Working remotely doesn't look very exciting. In fact, it's very quiet and mostly not worth filming. But still, we have footage of ourselves doing work online because we do so much of it. In ...
Lose the debt
Some of the most important things that you can do to be successful as a digital nomad have to do with money and finances. That being said, if you have a lot of debt, that doesn’t mean you can’t make the digital nomad lifestyle happen for yourself. It just means you have a journey ahead of you to make it happen. Getting rid of debt may mean that you have to make some ...
Some of the most important things that you can do to be successful as a digital nomad have to do with money and finances. That being said, if you have a lot of debt, that doesn’t mean you can’t make the digital nomad lifestyle happen for yourself. It just means you have a journey ahead of you to make it happen. Getting rid of debt may mean that you have to make some ...
John and I learned to travel by being poor. Real travel that involves adventure, getting lost, and finding one’s way, after all, lends itself to a form of impoverishment. As a general rule with few exceptions, people who travel a lot learn to travel light. “Stuff” gets in the way of happiness in small, unfamiliar spaces. “Stuff” wants to be lined up, stacked, or shelved and who has time for that after a ...