As both aspiring minimalists and slow travelers, we like to control our spending since we have limited space on what we can carry and are traveling quite extensively. We have developed a process to help us decide what to spend money on and how much money we feel comfortable spending.
Have you ever come home from a vacation feeling more exhausted than you were before you left? Maybe you want to try slow travel. As a nomadic couple who sold everything to make the world our home, we have been embracing slow travel for almost a year now so we thought it was enough time to share what we love about it, what are some of the tips that can help you get started and why you should consider it. So let’s slow things down…
(more…)“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later”.
Randy Komisar, Monk and the Riddle
Accommodation usually represents the largest expense while traveling for extended period of time. Did you know you can reduce significantly this expense by using Airbnb? In this post we explain how we use Airbnb to find amazing rentals, why and how we introduce ourselves to the host, our best tips to get us the best stays at the best price through the Airbnb platform and more…
Credit card travel rewards AKA travel hacking is a large part of our strategy to travel the world affordably as full-time travelers for the past 6 years. Almost all of our transcontinental flights are paid for by travel rewards points, saving thousands of dollars per year. We even occasionally treat ourselves to a nice 5 star hotel paid for by credit card hotel rewards. In this detailed introduction to credit card travel rewards, we will explain what they are, how you can leverage them and the credit cards we recommend to get started.
We recently wrapped up a 3.5 months (106 days to be exact) trip to Mexico where we slow traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City, Oaxaca City & San Miguel de Allende. We choose these places based on few factor which the main were 1) wifi quality (especially for Mrs. Nomad Numbers who was working remotely on that trip), 2) things to enjoy over a relatively long stay (4 weeks in average for us) and of course 3) safety.
In this spending report post we look at how much we spent in Mexico, project what our yearly cost of living in this country would have been and give a few tips to reduce this budget even further. Let’s dig into our Mexico spending report!
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After having such a great time in Oaxaca City where we felt we experienced for the first time what authentic Mexico is, we spent 4 weeks in San Miguel de Allende (SMA) as our last leg of our 100+ days trip to Mexico. While Oaxaca City set the bar pretty high on so many fronts, SMA turned out to be our favorite place of all the places we explored in Mexico and one we are planning on coming back to.
After a wonderful 6 weeks in Mexico City where we explored both the city and the Pueblo Magicos surrounding it, we spent 4 weeks in Oaxaca City during Christmas and New Years. Oaxaca city is THE place to experiences authentic Mexican food. It is also extremely affordable as we only spent $26 per person and per day making it the cheapest place we’ve visited since we started to travel the world!
As Mrs. Numbers and I were preparing our nomadic journey around the world, we decided that it would be a great idea to start a blog to capture our journey and share it with our friends and family. What was initially going to be a simple log book of our travels, turned out to be much more than that…
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Whether you came to this page after reading our how our blogging experiment affected our travels post or you want to start a blog like this one and need help to get started, you are in the right place. Getting started is actually very quick and easy and you could have your new blog up and running today if you follow our step by step guide. Let’s get started!
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This post is part of a “behind the scenes” series where we will share with our readers the tools, techniques, systems and processes that have helped us get to how we are living today.
For the second post of this series, I will be sharing how we track our expenses and developed a cost of living index that we use to share our travel expenses via our destinations reports or weekend guide articles.