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[Interview #023] From overcoming fears to taking control of his life – How 4 years of solo world travel and volunteering can change everything!

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!

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The ultimate note-taking solution for nomads: reMarkable 2 Review

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!

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Year 3 Nomad Travel Spend Report – Unplanned Pandemic Year (Part II – The numbers)

We learned a lot from our very unplanned third year of slow travel. We discovered wonderful places, people, and cultures (make sure to read part one to learn more about that). This year was also filled with so much uncertainty – we didn’t even know which countries we would be staying in, let alone how much budget we would need. We were able to still save a lot as we continued applying our money-saving strategy (through tactics such as booking long-term Airbnbs, eating locally, living slowly, applying for credit cards to travel for free, and more…) to keep our budget to a very affordable number. In this post, we are going to share and dive into every single penny we spent (because we love tracking that stuff!).

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Year 3 Nomad Travel Spend Report – Unplanned Pandemic Year (Part I – The highlights)

Year 3 was an interesting year since 2020 was an unprecedented year for everyone. For the first time, we stayed in the same country for pretty much an entire year due to an unforeseen global pandemic. We have learned a lot from these past 3 years from both a travel and budget standpoint. In this first part, we are diving into the fun/travel part of our journey by looking at our top highlights.

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Blog Income Report – Q2 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 quarter of 2021 (which covers the period from 4/1/2021 to 6/30/2021)

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[Interview #022] From normal life in Florida to full-time world travelers in about 8 months: How to harness the power of working remotely and start traveling the world

In this interview you will learn how Amy and Ian became full time world travelers in 8 months and harness the power of working remotely to live their best life yet! You will learn what does a typical day in their life look like for them today vs before, the few inflection points led them to decide to change their life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold them back and so much more!

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