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.

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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How we booked 6 international one way tickets + 5 nights at a high-end resort in Fiji for $400

After landing in Taiwan at the cusp of the pandemic in 2020 we had to sloooooow down our travel significantly and spent most of the past 2 years on this wonderful island. Now that we feel more comfortable to travel internationally again, we’ve been back on the travel rewards train to score amazing deals.

In this blog post, we share the latest bookings we made to show you how inexpensive travel can be if you leverage travel rewards.

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Experiencing Chinese Medicine in Taiwan

After sharing Why long-term travel is the best health insurance plan you can get and The true cost of healthcare as nomads, in today’s post we would like to talk about Chinese Medicine as this is something we recently got exposed to being in Taiwan. We will give a brief introduction to what we know about it, how we are getting treated, what we have found available in Taiwan and how much does it cost.

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[Interview #024] Going from normal to nomad as a late onset Type 1 diabetic – From misconceptions and comfort zones to experimentation and adventure!

Jason Robinson is a 44 years old who grew up in a fairly small manufacturing/factory town in Ohio to a mom who stayed home and a dad who always took overtime to make ends meet. Travel wasn’t really a thing back then.

It wasn’t until his 30s that he started traveling more domestically and trying things like hostels. A year later I sold it all, 8 months later covid hit, then 6 months after that I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes

In this interview, you will learn what does a typical day in his life look like (compare to before), what inflection point led them to decide to change your life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold him back, what is his cost of living per year and how is has been traveling the world as a onset Type 1 diabetic!

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Blog Income Report – Q3+Q4 (EOY) 2021

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 second half of 2021 (which covers the period from 7/1/2021 to 12/31/2021)

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