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Life ‘Stuck’ in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic (April’s edition)

What is life like ‘stuck’ in Taiwan during the coronavirus pandemic? Strange but wonderful! It feels strange because while most of the world was on pause in April, Taiwan has been moving forward and operating as usual. We dine at restaurants, get on crowded subway rides, explore tourist sites, see students going to school and workers going to work. We feel guilty at times for leading such free lives after we completed our home self-quarantine. If we were back in the US or France, we would be unable to move around freely and would be constantly worried about possibly spreading the virus to our loved ones so we are very grateful for the freedom we have in Taiwan. Thank you Taiwan!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Cost of Nomad Living in Taipei during the coronavirus

In this post, we will take a look at our past month of expenses and share what our cost of living in Taipei has been during this pandemic so far. We will also check to see how we are doing towards our new yearly budget goal for 2020 that we recently decreased from $30K to $20K. Are you ready to escape the day to day and take an early look at the cost of living in Taipei, Taiwan?

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Pivoting as nomads & living on $20K a year in a time of crisis

No one saw this coming for 2020 and like many others, we had to throw our plans for the year out the window. Everyone is going through their unique challenges during this time. For us, as nomads, it’s dealing with the challenge of where to live and keeping our expenses low. Although it feels uneasy to not have a proper place to call home during this time, we do have flexibility working in our favor so we can explore a few options. We will review both our nomadic and financial plans and share how our nomadic lifestyle still gives us options even in such unprecedented times.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Traveling During a Virus Pandemic – How is the coronavirus (COVID-19) affecting us?

We happened to have upcoming plans to visit countries that are currently experiencing widespread transmission of the virus (including Italy and Japan) as well as plans to visit the US. We wanted to share how we plan to handle our travels for the rest of 2020, what part of our itinerary we might change, any recommendations we are following to stay healthy and how we see this outbreak in general.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

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

2019 End of Year Travel Rewards Report – How we earned $10K in free travel money

Last month, I bragged a little on Twitter that we managed to accumulate half a million travel rewards points in 2019 alone and I wanted to follow up with more details. 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 US. Do you believe that world travel is unaffordable because of airfare cost? Well we can show you with the magic of travel rewards, we were able to travel to 4 continents, 9 countries and 15 cities for 2 people for under $2000!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

2019 Year End Spending Report – Still traveling the world for half the cost of staying home

As we closed out 2019 and our first 18 months of nomadic travel, I’m digging into our finances to see how we did in 2019 and we are happy about the results. In our first 12 months of travel, we reported that we spent less than $30K which was about half of the cost when we lived and worked in a high cost of living city. Not only did we cut our expenses, we rebalanced our spending towards activities that we enjoyed the most, are living a less stressful life and are having the time of our lives. In 2019, we are happy to report that we pretty much kept the same level of spend through to the end of the year.

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago