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.
After a wonderful short week in Puerto Vallarta where we experienced Dia De Muertos first hand, we spent 6 weeks in Mexico City. Mexico city was our true slow travel stop in Mexico as it gave us plenty of time to settle down and explore both this big city and the Pueblo Magicos surrounding it.
Tepoztlan is a really small town in a beautiful valley that is famous for its spas, meditation, alternative medicine clinics and a very traditional city center. It is one of the 121 Pueblo Magicos you will find in Mexico. It is a timeless place that will bring you back in time as lots of the city has a very particular charm. It is a place that must be visited and we urge people to consider visiting before it become more popular as the tourists might take Tepoztlan’s magic away!
As we are closing 2018 and our first six months of nomadic travel, I am digging into our finances to answer this question and the results are pretty exciting. In a nutshell in the last 6 months, we slashed our spending in half, rebalanced our spending towards activities that we enjoyed the most, are living a less stressful life and are having the time of our lives.
We discuss the solution we picked to handle our physical mail, how it works, how much does it cost and why you might want to consider it as well – whether you are traveling or not – especially if you never want to receive junk mail again!
After spending a wonderful summer in Quebec visiting both Montreal and Quebec City, we decided to look for a warm winter location and Mexico ended up being the winner. We started our visit of this large country by making a week long stop in the picturesque town of Puerto Vallarta which offers beaches lying between mountains and ocean. Let’s look into what we liked the most, what we recommend, as well as the details about our budget and how the two of us spent $34 per person per day. Let’s go explore Puerto Vallarta!
Whether you are planning a trip to Quebec or are currently living in Quebec, Mont Tremblant can make from a great weekend getaway. Mont Tremblant is a really cute town in the Canadian province of Québec set within the Laurentian Mountains. It’s 2 hours away from Montréal (80 miles) and 4 hours away from Quebec City (230 miles).
Mont Tremblant was actually one of our favorite getaway when we spend 7 weeks in Quebec City as we’ve got plenty of nature time there! So let’s go explore Mont Tremblant for one weekend!
Quebec City was the second major stop on our trip to Quebec Province after 4 weeks in Montréal! While the city lacks the vibe of Montreal, it has an impressive historic downtown and ended up being a great stop to let us explore the surrounding attraction Quebec City has to offer. Let’s look into what we liked the most, what we recommend, as well as the details about our budget and how the two of us spent just under $2000 per month. Let’s go explore Quebec City!
Mrs Nomad Numbers and I are both avid explorers who decided to embrace our passion for travel by making the world our home. By deciding to become nomads, we had to figure out what to do with our apartment in San Francisco and all the “stuff” we had accumulated over the years that were slowly (but surely) cluttering our place! This articles discusses the options we considered, the one we picked. We also discuss what was the transition like and how this lifestyle change affected our lives. So let’s dig into the art of decluttering and how becoming aspiring minimalists changed us for the better!
Montreal was the first stop of our new nomadic lifestyle. From weekend festivals, amazing food and plenty of sights to see, our 4 weeks zipped by! Let’s look into what we liked the most, what we recommend, as well as the details about our budget and how the two of us spent less than $2000 for our entire stay! Let’s go explore Montreal!