Product Reviews

US mobile phone carrier for verifications overseas: Tello Mobile review

Phone, text and online data access while overseas is an important logistic to figure out for nomads, expats and travelers alike. There are a lot of great options nowadays for eSIMs like Airalo, Eskimo or RedteaGo to get easy data access overseas. However, if you’re an American and need access to a US mobile phone number to receive text message verifications, you may need to maintain a US mobile phone carrier. A number of online banks and credit card companies have tightened their restrictions on accepting VoIP numbers so our Google Voice number no longer suffices. After extensive research on US mobile phone carrier options, we discovered Tello, a service that provides a real US phone number that banks accept, all for a very affordable $5 per month (or $60 per year) plus taxes.

In this blog post, we’ll share why we think Tello is a fantastic low-cost carrier option, walk you through setting up an account, and show you how to use it effectively while traveling internationally.

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

Making sleep a top priority – Oura ring review

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. 

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

The ultimate note-taking solution for nomads: reMarkable 2 Review

The advance of technology over the past decade has made our nomadic lifestyle much more comfortable and manageable. However technology can also bring a lot of distraction and can even impact our sleep. So in early 2020, we decided to use good old paper notebooks to practice journaling and note-taking. After accumulating a few notebooks (weighing ~100g apiece) and spending a decent amount of time setting up our monthly spread to make our journaling efficient, I was wondering if technology could help us!

By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago

International phone plan options for travel – Google FI Review

As we embarked on long-term nomadic travel, we had to figure out a lot of logistics and choosing an international phone plan is a big one because we rely on it everyday. We ultimately decided on Google FI and will share with you our comprehensive review of the Google FI phone plan.

We will be going over the reason why we believe it is critical to have connectivity while traveling long term, why we chose Google FI has the phone plan we’ve been using since we started our journey, what are the alternatives and which option we recommend whether you want to travel the world long-term or simply stay in the US.

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By Mr. Nomad Numbers, ago