Mr. Nomad Numbers

We are a couple who travel the world and want to inspire people to think differently about the life they can design for themselves through our journey.

[Interview #011] Choosing time over money and living a FatFIRE nomadic lifestyle

Man Overseas (aka Brad) actually “retired” from work to become a full-time traveler (hence, Man Overseas). He grew up in Houston, Texas (USA) and attended Nicholls State University. We were in Chiang Mai last year when I stumbled upon Brad. My initial encounter with Brad was rather virtual and semi-random on Twitter. We quickly clicked and the next day I was invited to his great (yet super affordable) AirBnB rental in the heart of the Nimman area to record a podcast with him (FU Money, Investing & World Travel). I was really excited to have him as part of our interview series to feature someone that is living more of a FatFIRE lifestyle (versus a budget one) with a solid sense of humor, unique take on work and life philosophy and much more. And since #Covid2019 is top of mind for everyone, I wanted to know how this pandemic has been affecting his worldwide travels for him and his wife.

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Traveling During a Virus Pandemic – How is the coronavirus (COVID-19) affecting us?

We happened to have upcoming plans to visit countries that are currently experiencing widespread transmission of the virus (including Italy and Japan) as well as plans to visit the US. We wanted to share how we plan to handle our travels for the rest of 2020, what part of our itinerary we might change, any recommendations we are following to stay healthy and how we see this outbreak in general.

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[Interview #010] Semi-retirement at age 33 for better work-life balance

Michelle is a 36 year old event manager/festival organizer from South Australia. She currently lives in New Zealand where she spends time on a short work contract, after completing a full year of slow travel around the USA in June 2019. Since 2007 she has been to 40 countries, spread across annual trips but she still calls Australia home!

Michelle became interested in the concept of financial independence in 2012, discovering it via Early Retirement Extreme and Mr Money Mustache blogs. She has been learning about general personal finance topics to make the most of her money, with expectations of limited income potential in her chosen career. FI provided a clearer, big picture motivation for her savings efforts, which had previously been focused on funding her next overseas vacations or dry spells of work.

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[Interview #009] Living on $7k to $16k a Year, Pursuing Freedom through Nomadic Living & the Power of Being Intentional

Sergio and Shannon are husband and wife (respectively an IT consultant and project manager consultant + corporate trainer) from the United States that feel lucky to be best friends. They see merit in improving their faults and supporting each other in the effort. They both strive for continual improvement and live a life full of small actions, small choices and small decisions that have a big impact on their lives. They’re also full-time house sitters (57 and counting) and digital nomads pursuing FI/RE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) who’ve traveled to 4 continents, 26 countries and over 80 cities since 2016!

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Destination Guide: Koh Lanta Thailand – What to do, see, eat and avoid

After staying for a month in paradise on a Caribbean island for only $2,7000 in the Spring of 2019, we were overdue for another month in paradise because why not? Since we just wrapped up a month visiting Chiang Mai, we decided to go explore one of the many islands of Thailand and after some extensive research decided to give a try to Koh Lanta. So without further ado, let’s go explore Koh Lanta and unveil in this two part article what we did, ate, saw and what we recommend people to avoid!

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[Interview #008] Reprioritizing life after a health wake up call

Ryan and Emily are in their mid-40s and have been married for almost 10 years. They left their home in the US (North Carolina) in August 2018, and started their full-time travel adventures. They haven’t looked back since. They spent just over 13 months in South America—Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. They went back to the eastern US for 5 weeks to spend some time with their friends and family. Currently they are spending their second year in Southeast Asia – 2 weeks in Myanmar, currently in Thailand, and planning to visit Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam soon.

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2019 End of Year Travel Rewards Report – How we earned $10K in free travel money

Last month, I bragged a little on Twitter that we managed to accumulate half a million travel rewards points in 2019 alone and I wanted to follow up with more details. If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the US. Do you believe that world travel is unaffordable because of airfare cost? Well we can show you with the magic of travel rewards, we were able to travel to 4 continents, 9 countries and 15 cities for 2 people for under $2000!

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[Interview #007] Priority Shifts, Remote Year & SlowFI led to the Nomadic Lifestyle

Eric initially reached out to me by answering one of the emails he received from us after subscribing to our newsletter. As we started chatting I ended up learning about his recent transition to the Digital Nomad lifestyle and the Remote Year program him and his girlfriend used as a way to smoothly transition into the nomadic lifestyle and also easily connect with like-minded people

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2019 Year End Spending Report – Still traveling the world for half the cost of staying home

As we closed out 2019 and our first 18 months of nomadic travel, I’m digging into our finances to see how we did in 2019 and we are happy about the results. In our first 12 months of travel, we reported that we spent less than $30K which was about half of the cost when we lived and worked in a high cost of living city. Not only did we cut our expenses, we rebalanced our spending towards activities that we enjoyed the most, are living a less stressful life and are having the time of our lives. In 2019, we are happy to report that we pretty much kept the same level of spend through to the end of the year.

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