Destinations

The destinations we have been traveling to

Destination Guide: Koh Lanta Thailand – What to do, see, eat and avoid

After staying for a month in paradise on a Caribbean island for only $2,7000 in the Spring of 2019, we were overdue for another month in paradise because why not? Since we just wrapped up a month visiting Chiang Mai, we decided to go explore one of the many islands of Thailand and after some extensive research decided to give a try to Koh Lanta. So without further ado, let’s go explore Koh Lanta and unveil in this two part article what we did, ate, saw and what we recommend people to avoid!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Destination Report: Chiang Mai – Part One: What to do, see, eat and avoid

After spending a lovely summer in Europe, we embarked on a 6 months journey in South East Asia (SEA). While Mrs. NN already visited SEA before we even met, I never set foot there so there was definitely some excitement in exploring a brand new region as part of our 2nd year of nomadic travel. For our first stop, we decided to stay an entire month in Chiang Mai Thailand and we were blown away by the culture, the food and the digital nomad community. So without further ado, let’s go explore Chiang Mai and unveil in this two part article what we did, ate and saw!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Destination Report: Kotor – Part One: What to do, see, eat and avoid

For the final stop of our 4 months journey in Europe, we stayed in Kotor Montenegro. We picked Montenegro over its more popular neighbor Croatia because it’s got beautiful scenery (check out the view from our apartment below) and is not as busy or pricey. While we stayed only 2 out of the 4 weeks we initially planned, we really enjoyed it and would really recommend it as a lesser known gem. Let’s go explore Kotor!

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Destination Report: Lisbon – Part One: What to do, see, eat (& avoid)

After Porto, we spent the second half of our time in Portugal in Lisbon for almost a month. We decided to stay in this capital because we were curious to know more about this growing digital nomads hub that has become a trendy European destination over the past few years. The city actually reminded us a lot of San Francisco which we will talk more about in this blog post. Let’s go explore Lisbon!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Destination Report: Porto – Part One: What to do, eat, see (& avoid)

One of our favorite things about our nomadic lifestyle is that we can design it however we’d like based on our priorities. We can slow it down or speed it up, go to a food destination or a cultural city, spend time sightseeing or working on projects, meet up with friends or set out on our own, save money in Central America or splurge (within reason of course!) in the Caribbean. One of the biggest advantages to us is the ability to spend long periods of time with family and friends that live in different parts of the world. Since my family lives in France, I didn’t get a chance to see them very much during my 10 years in the US. Now we plan on spending 1-2 months every year with them and focus on great quality time versus the quick holiday catch up I was used to do. This is what brought us to Europe this summer!

Today we are fast forwarding a bit to our first slow travel destination of our 2nd year of long term travel: Portugal. (June was spent in France with family and was all over the place. Early July was spent with friends in beautiful Costa Brava Spain and we well talk about both at a later time). Given how popular Portugal is among expats, digital nomads and retirees, we were looking forward to see what the hype was all about! We decided to spend about 2 months in Portugal, spending our time between Porto and Lisbon. Porto was our first stop and we ended up with pretty mixed feeling about this city. Let’s see why by exploring Porto!

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

2 Day Itinerary and Cost – Douro Valley, Portugal

You have to visit the Douro Valley if you are in Porto, I can’t believe we even hesitated because it is an amazing place. Not only does this valley have the perfect weather conditions to produce Port wine, the beautiful and dramatic landscape make it seem unreal. No surprises that this site has UNESCO World Heritage status in 2001 as you will be able to attest through the pictures and video we are sharing in this post.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Year 1 Nomad Travel Spend Report – Traveling the world for half of the cost of staying home

When we decided to get married and sell everything to travel the world, we knew that this new lifestyle was going to be fun, exciting but also cheaper than staying at home. What we did not know was how much cheaper it was going to be to live a very high quality of life where we would enjoy the local food scene, cook amazing meals, take regular getaway trips, spend time in nature, attend local shows/festivals and everything else you get the freedom to do when you decide to travel the world slowly.

As we are closing our first year of nomadic travel, I am digging into our finances to answer this question and the results are pretty exciting. In a nutshell in the last 12 months, we slow traveled to 10 locations in 5 countries for about half the cost of living in San Francisco. But more than reducing our spending, geo-arbitrage let us rebalance our expenses towards activities that we enjoy the most, spending more time with our respective families, living a less stressful life and exploring new places in the world.

So let’s dig into our spending report for our first year of nomadic living!

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Weekend Guide – Superbloom, California

As we came back to California to spend some quality time with family and friends, we decided to chase the rare superbloom which typically occurs once every 10 years or so. Due to a persistent drought in California, this year’s was particularly abundant which made for a unique and wonderful show we did not want to miss. In this post, we are sharing our itinerary as well as how much we spent! If you are in California and haven’t seen the superbloom, you still have a couple of weeks to catch up before it starts fading away!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Weekend Guide and Itinerary – Tepoztlan, Mexico

Tepoztlan is a really small town in a beautiful valley that is famous for its spas, meditation, alternative medicine clinics and a very traditional city center. It is one of the 121 Pueblo Magicos you will find in Mexico. It is a timeless place that will bring you back in time as lots of the city has a very particular charm. It is a place that must be visited and we urge people to consider visiting before it become more popular as the tourists might take Tepoztlan’s magic away!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Weekend Guide – Mont Tremblant, Québec

Whether you are planning a trip to Quebec or are currently living in Quebec, Mont Tremblant can make from a great weekend getaway. Mont Tremblant is a really cute town in the Canadian province of Québec set within the Laurentian Mountains. It’s 2 hours away from Montréal (80 miles) and 4 hours away from Quebec City (230 miles).
Mont Tremblant was actually one of our favorite getaway when we spend 7 weeks in Quebec City as we’ve got plenty of nature time there! So let’s go explore Mont Tremblant for one weekend!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago