How much money we spent while slow traveling the world
In this post, we are taking a deep dive into our budget and how the two of us spent about $1,200 USD for a 4 week stay in Penang, Malaysia in November 2019. We picked Penang because it is a food paradise and we have not been disappointed on that front!
With nearly 1.5M Travel Rewards points accumulated by end of 2020 (worth $20,000 in redemption) are we sitting on useless money during a pandemic?
In this blog post, we will give you a quick introduction to travel rewards before digging into how many rewards we accumulated in 2020, which credit cards we opened, how much money we saved by redeeming these precious points and what our plans are for 2021!
We spent $7,300 in cash + 112,000 airlines points in booking we had to cancel due to COVID19. In this post, we share all the details about what bookings we made before the pandemic, how much we paid, how much we got back, how long it took for us to get our money back, which strategies we used to get our money back and what we learned for the future.
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income on a quarterly basis.
Since we are still a modest blog, our numbers won’t blow your mind but you might be interested to see that there is still a bit of income trickling in that requires little effort to maintain once they have been properly set up. And you might also appreciate seeing how much progress we have made overtime.
Don’t be fooled though! Living off a blog requires a LOT of work that includes:
This is why you should first and foremost blog about things you are passionate about before thinking about how to monetize your content.
In this article, we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t, and how much we made in the last quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 10/1/2020 to 12/31/2020). Are you ready to dive in?
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As we closed out 2020 and our first 30 months of nomadic travel, I’m digging into our finances to see how we did in 2020 (aka. the year of the global COVID-19 pandemic).
In this article, we go over all the health-related care we have had since we became nomadic and the experience associated with each of them. We look at how much money we spent on medical care over the past 2+ years and draw some conclusions from it.
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income if you’re curious and considering starting your own.
In this article we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t and how much we made in the third quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 7/1/2020 to 9/30/2020).
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income if you’re curious and considering starting your own.
In this article we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t and how much we made in the second quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 4/1/2020 to 6/30/2020).
It’s been 2 years since we got married, got rid of all of our stuff and left San Francisco to become nomads and slow travel the world! Year 1 was amazing, we were living out our dream lifestyle to see the world and staying in some really cool cities. Plus, we were able to do all of that for half the cost of living at home in San Francisco. Coming into year 2, we were becoming seasoned nomads and getting into a rhythm of enjoying new places, eating delicious meals, exploring nature, settling into monthly apartments and even making new nomad friends. We learned a lot from year 1 and applied similar money saving techniques such as booking long-term Airbnbs and using airline reward points. We had exciting plans for 2020 but like the rest of the world, we had to quickly adjust when the pandemic hit in March. As a result, we became grounded nomads and had to decide where we wanted to wait things out for the last 4 months of year 2. This also involved canceling a lot of flights and Airbnb bookings.
In this post, we are taking a deep dive into our budget and how the two of us spent about $1,000 USD for a 4 week stay in Koh Lanta, Thailand in November. We picked Koh Lanta for the cool paradise factor and the fact that it was a quiet island that definitely fit our slow travel lifestyle.