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.
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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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)
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.