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!
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since the pandemic and hence a year since we’ve been able to travel internationally. Right before the travel shutdown, we were fortunate enough to enjoy a month in the foodie paradise of Penang, Malaysia after a month enjoying the wonderful beach of Koh Lanta (read: Koh Lanta destination report) and Koh Lipe in Thailand. We traded the ocean for the table and tasted some of the best food in Southeast Asia!
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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!
In this blog post, I go over the book Super Human by Dave Asprey. I discuss what the book is about, what is my takeaway from it, and the specific action items I implemented after reading it. Do you ever feel busy but not productive? Are you interested in living a healthy and long life? Do your day-to-day activities greatly add or remove years in your life? Maybe you should then consider reading Super Human!
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).
We are very grateful for the outstanding work that Taiwan has done to keep all its residents safe during this unprecedented global pandemic and we are also grateful that we as nomads can choose where we want to stay.
In this article, we won’t go over all the wonders of Taiwan that we already covered at length. Instead we will be digging into our expenses in Taiwan – during the pandemic for the past 9 months!
Taiwan is so much more than the Taipei 101 building and the label “Made in Taiwan”. More recently, Taiwan is deservingly getting more attention for its 220+ days without a local transmission of Covid-19.
Now that we’ve been in Taiwan for more than 250 days, we’ve learned a few interesting tidbits that we felt were worth sharing.
In this article we share 10 surprising things you may not know about Taiwan.