In this guide, you will find everything you need to know about blood work. What are they? Why are they important to monitor your health, what type of test are available, which ones you want to order, where to get such tests done and how much it costs. Are you ready to learn more about blood tests?
About 6 months ago we shared our best relationship tips for nomadic couples based on our experience of being nomadic for more than 3 years. One of the first tips we shared was about having ongoing check in. I feel like this is such an important tip that it deserves its own blog post.
In today’s post we are going to talk about our relationship check-ins. We will explain why they are important, what they are about, how long and often we like to have them as well as some tips to make them as fun and efficient as possible. Keep in mind that you can apply it to any kind of relationship, whether you have a 9-5 and most of your time is spent at the office, or like us where we get to spend more of our time together.
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In this short and practical post, I will be talking about long form journaling and provide you with resources to get you started within minutes and hopefully let you calm your mind, and get more focus and clarity for your day.
Sick too often? Weak immune system? Low sex drive? Overweight? Over stressed? Challenged to keep your weight under control? At risk of diabetes or heart disease? Having issues thinking clearly and performing well at work? Do you know what all of the above have in common? A lack of good and restorative sleep!
In this blog post, I would like to go over why sleep is so important in our life, how we have managed to optimize it and what device we’ve been using to make sure we stay on top of our sleep no matter where we are. If you never focused much on your sleep, you might want to read this blog post and it might be life changing for you.
If you’ve been following us, you know that Travel Rewards is one of the core strategies we use to travel the world for less than staying at home in the USA.
After accumulating about 1.5 million of Travel Rewards points in 2020 (worth about $25,000 in redemption at current valuation), we managed to accumulate some more and was also able to spend them again to enjoy some free international flights.
In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2021, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2022!
Are you ready to talk about free travel money and see how much we got in 2021 by using Travel Rewards?
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When we decided to sell everything to travel the world in 2018, we knew that this new lifestyle was going to be fun, exciting and also full of unpredictable surprises. We did not know that we were going to go through a global pandemic.
While 2020 was the year of the pandemic, 2021 has been the year of hope with the vaccine that has been saving many lives. I predict that 2022 will be the year of adjustment where we adjust to live with the reality of the virus and resume more normalcy (including adding much more international travel for us).
We started 2021 in Taiwan, a place that we’ve been calling home since the pandemic started. We left in May to visit family in California and catch up with them, before doing the same in France while making a stop in the South of the country to explore the beautiful Calanques as well as visiting friends in Switzerland for a small week getaway. Finally for the last part of 2021, we decided to come back to Taiwan which has more or less sheltered us from the virus since they have managed to keep it away from its borders in 2021… Let’s see how 2022 goes
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.
Travis King is a 37 years old, originally from Milwaukee Wisconsin. He spent the first 10 years of his career working with youth as a camp director.
As that two-year program was finishing and everyone was questioning his next professional pursuit, he thought to himself, “when do I ever get to make a choice for myself, for my life, and not for my resume?”.
That thought led him on a 5-month trip to South America as soon as his Master’s finished. He went on to solo travel and volunteer all over the world for 4 years. Those four years ended with landing a job in the travel industry as one of Remote Year’s first program leaders. A few years later he is now officially unemployed (by choice), living in Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
Let’s dig into his story!
In this post, we look back at our relationship since we started slow travel, how it has evolved after we became nomads, what were some of the challenges we faced, and what tips we came up with to overcome them.
The advance of technology over the past decade has made our nomadic lifestyle much more comfortable and manageable. However technology can also bring a lot of distraction and can even impact our sleep. So in early 2020, we decided to use good old paper notebooks to practice journaling and note-taking. After accumulating a few notebooks (weighing ~100g apiece) and spending a decent amount of time setting up our monthly spread to make our journaling efficient, I was wondering if technology could help us!