On my 40th birthday, I decided to take the time to reflect about these past 40 years. As part of this reflection, I wrote down 40 lessons I learned as I’m entering my 40s and thought it would be worth sharing with all of you. Ready to dig in?
We spent $7,300 in cash + 112,000 airlines points in booking we had to cancel due to COVID19. In this post, we share all the details about what bookings we made before the pandemic, how much we paid, how much we got back, how long it took for us to get our money back, which strategies we used to get our money back and what we learned for the future.
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income on a quarterly basis.
Since we are still a modest blog, our numbers won’t blow your mind but you might be interested to see that there is still a bit of income trickling in that requires little effort to maintain once they have been properly set up. And you might also appreciate seeing how much progress we have made overtime.
Don’t be fooled though! Living off a blog requires a LOT of work that includes:
This is why you should first and foremost blog about things you are passionate about before thinking about how to monetize your content.
In this article, we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t, and how much we made in the last quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 10/1/2020 to 12/31/2020). Are you ready to dive in?
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As we closed out 2020 and our first 30 months of nomadic travel, I’m digging into our finances to see how we did in 2020 (aka. the year of the global COVID-19 pandemic).
As we’ve recently said farewell to 2020, we reflected back on the year and thought it would be worth sharing what we managed to do in 2020 and how we felt about this very unique year. Maybe this will give you an idea to reflect back on and use it as an input to decide how you want to shape 2021.
Today I decided to write about all the reasons we love hiking because as it goes well beyond the fact that it is a really affordable activity that can be done anywhere.
As we look forward to a brighter 2021, we are going to discuss what mostly positive changes we think we can expect to see about remote work, why digital nomadism is about to become more popular than ever and what impact this will have on the travel industry in general.
We are very grateful for the outstanding work that Taiwan has done to keep all its residents safe during this unprecedented global pandemic and we are also grateful that we as nomads can choose where we want to stay.
In this article, we won’t go over all the wonders of Taiwan that we already covered at length. Instead we will be digging into our expenses in Taiwan – during the pandemic for the past 9 months!
Taiwan is so much more than the Taipei 101 building and the label “Made in Taiwan”. More recently, Taiwan is deservingly getting more attention for its 220+ days without a local transmission of Covid-19.
Now that we’ve been in Taiwan for more than 250 days, we’ve learned a few interesting tidbits that we felt were worth sharing.
In this article we share 10 surprising things you may not know about Taiwan.
As aspiring minimalists, we don’t extensively buy stuff and rather focus on experiences. However, we are savers that can’t pass on a good deal especially for an essential item we needed to buy anyway. This makes Black Friday sales the perfect time to make these thoughtful purchases as they are usually heavily discounted. The key here obviously is “essential item”.
Since everyone will likely be looking at deals online (especially in 2020 – a big year for online deliveries), we decided to put together a list of our favorite slow travel essentials items that we have found discounted as part of the 2020 Black Friday season.