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)
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.
As 2022 came to a close, I thought it would be great to take a moment to share how we reflect on the past year, celebrate our achievements, set our intentions for the new year along with a few aspirational goals and how we make sure we are working towards the year ahead of us.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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After traveling for nearly 4 years, we have been relying A LOT on apps to help us with our slow travel. It is actually quite hard to imagine how we would manage to plan a long trip, a 2 weeks vacation or even a getaway without them! Here are our top apps for travel that we can’t live without.
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.
We don’t blog for a living but that doesn’t prevent us from monetizing our blog because why not? In this post we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t, and how much money we made in Q1 2022 (which covers the period from 1/1/2022 to 3/31/2022)