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.

Building Community for the Long-Term: The Importance of Finding Friendships That Last

As a slow traveling couple, my wife and I have had the privilege of exploring different parts of the world for the past 4.5 years. While we have had many amazing experiences and met many interesting people, one of the challenges we have faced is building a sense of community. In this article, I will be discussing the challenges of building a community as a slow traveling couple, and offering potential solutions to overcome these challenges.

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The Simple Path To Wealth, by JL Colins – A Book Review and Summary

In this blog post, I will be sharing my thoughts on the book “The Simple Path to Wealth” by JL Collins. If you ever find yourself feeling overwhelmed with managing your personal finances, or find yourself unsure of the best way to invest your money, then this book is for you. It will help you to understand the simple and straightforward investment strategy for achieving financial independence through saving, investing, and living below one’s means. I will be discussing what the book is about, my main takeaways from it, and the specific action items I implemented in my personal finances after reading it.

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Blog Income Report – Q2+Q3+Q4 (EOY) 2022

We don’t blog for a living but that doesn’t prevent us from monetizing our blog because why not? This quarter our revenue was flat but we had significant change in our source of revenue. In this post we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t, and how much money we made in the last three quarters of 2022 (which covers the period from 4/1/2022 to 12/31/2022)

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The Ultimate Destination Guide to Lake Como, Italy

We started a 6 week trip to Italy by making a 5 day stop in Lake Como. We decided to stop by Lake Como as we wanted a stop over to make our drive from Geneva, Switzerland to Florence, Italy easier. Lake Como turned out to be such an unexpected and gorgeous place that we wanted to share all of it with you.

In this post, we share our itinerary as well as how much we spent. If you plan to go to Northern Italy, you should REALLY consider making a stop in this beautiful region which is also where George Cloney has one of his secondary residences for the summer! We are definitely planning on coming back for a much longer stay next time, it has definitely won us over.

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Destination Report: Costa Brava (Spain) – Part Two: Cost of Nomad Living

In this post we are taking a deep dive into our budget and how the two of us spent about $2,600 USD for a 4-week stay in Costa Brava, Spain in May of 2022. We picked Costa Brava for the food, the hiking and the proximity to the beach and we had a blast! This is definitely on the higher end of our usual spend but for such a beautiful and popular European holiday destination, it was not bad at all. Are you ready to see our numbers and find out what surprised us the most in Costa Brava?

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Destination Report: Costa Brava Spain: What to do, see, eat and avoid

After a break from international travel due to the pandemic, we resumed our travel in May 2022 and got to explore some amazing locations again.

We started the year 2022 in Taiwan and decided to pick Costa Brava in Spain as our first travel destination. We wanted to go back after having an amazing experience during a short week stay in this region when visiting the town of Begur with friends in 2019. So without further ado, let’s go explore the Costa Brava and unveil in this two-part article what we did, ate, saw, and what we recommend people to avoid.

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Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals on our favorite essential items (2022 Edition)

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 2021 – a strong 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 2021 Black Friday season.

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[Interview #025] From commodities trader to full time sailing around the world – Leaving the American dream to live their own dream as a family of 4!

Pat Schulte, along with his wife Ali began full-time traveling at 29 (20 years ago). They grew up in Minnesota, USA, began dating in high school, and married after college. They led a very typical suburban existence early on but later decided that their life needed a story, an adventure… something big! Their kids grew up on the water until we decided it was time to show them some of what life on land has to offer. This is where they sold their boat, bought a motorhome, and spent the next three years criss-crossing the US and Mexico.

In this interview, you will learn what does a typical day in Pat Schulte’s life look like (compare to before), what inflection point led them to decide to change his life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold him back, what is his cost of living per year sailing the world and how is has been traveling the world as a family of 4!

Ready to dig in?

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