This week we are sharing two stories. The story of Shoshannah (currently in Arizona) and Eric (currently in Michigan). Through their stories, you will learn about they ended up where they are today, how they are currently handling this pandemic and what’s next for them.
No one saw this coming for 2020 and like many others, we had to throw our plans for the year out the window. Everyone is going through their unique challenges during this time. For us, as nomads, it’s dealing with the challenge of where to live and keeping our expenses low. Although it feels uneasy to not have a proper place to call home during this time, we do have flexibility working in our favor so we can explore a few options. We will review both our nomadic and financial plans and share how our nomadic lifestyle still gives us options even in such unprecedented times.
This week we are sharing two stories. The story of James & Emily (currently in Cyprus) and the story of Michelle (currently in Australia). Through their stories, you will learn about they ended up where they are today, how they are currently handling this pandemic and what’s next for them.
In this first post of our coronavirus series, we are discussing how we ended up in Taiwan and what it feels like to be in a mandatory home quarantine here in Taipei.
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.
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.
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.
In this post, we are taking a deep dive into our budget and how the two of us spent about $1,000 USD for a 4 week stay in Koh Lanta, Thailand in November. We picked Koh Lanta for the cool paradise factor and the fact that it was a quiet island that definitely fit our slow travel lifestyle.
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!
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!