In this post, I will be answering the most common questions we have been getting through our nomadic journey (so far!) as well as giving you some insights into what a day in our lives looks like as full-time slow travelers.
In this post, we go over the patterns we noticed and help you identify what type of traveler resonates with you by looking at your travel personality, travel style, and travel pace. Also, we will touch upon how our way of travel will likely change due to the current pandemic.
Are you ready to identify what kind of traveler you are?
There’s a lot more to life than work and it’s actually very important to stop and clearly define what you want in life in 5 years, 10 years and beyond. If you aren’t intentional with your path, you may end up making decisions by default and find yourself living someone else’s ideal life rather than one on your own terms. This is a process we had to go through ourselves before we embarked on our ideal nomadic life and is a process that we make an effort to revisit every year. In fact, we spent the entire New Year’s day going through the details of our vision for 2020 and beyond.
Whether it is for a short 2 weeks vacation, a 3-6 months sabbatical from the office or even if travel has become your lifestyle, there is no shortage of beautiful places in the world to visit. Most of the time people will pick a destination because it is “trendy” or because one of their friends recommended it to them. Very few people will actually ask themselves what they want out of a travel experience before picking the destination after some introspection.
In other words, we rarely start with “our why” we want to travel but rather focus merely on the “what” or the “how” expecting the magic to happen once on site (check out this great book from Simon Sinek to get more insights on this topic).
This lack of self examination can lead to dissatisfaction in many areas of life. Like going to college, getting married, buying a house or even having kids without asking ourselves first and foremost if these are things we really need to live a truly fulfilled life.
In this article, we will explore why it is important to travel with purpose and provide some ideas to get you started. If you’re seeking some inspiration and want to go beyond checking off a travel itinerary, this post is for you!
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About a year ago, we decided to quit our regular jobs, give up our lovely apartment in San Francisco and sell all of our possessions to become nomadic and enjoy travel as part of our lifestyle. We have been embracing slow travel, minimalism and a nomadic lifestyle for a year so we thought that it was a good time to reflect on the past year. In this blog post, we will discuss the pros and cons of a nomadic lifestyle and hope this will give you a full perspective if you are interested in pursuing this lifestyle.
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This is a pretty dense lifestyle article, which is a follow up on our origin story. If you aren’t into lifestyle design, feel free to skip and check out one of our destination report instead!
One of the benefit of slow travel for me can be quantified by the number books I’ve been able to read since we embarked on our nomadic journey. I recently discovered Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, a thought-provoking odyssey through human history. While I won’t go too much into the book in this post, the author go in length to explains how humans see the world is mostly defined by the stories we create for ourselves. This reminded me about the Hero’s Journey that Vicki Robin (author of New York Times Bestseller Your Money or Your Life) introduced to us when we met her at the Chautauqua Retreat in Ecuador (back in 2017). It is a wonderful self transformation template that can be used by anyone looking to design their best life so I felt like it was worth sharing. Are you ready to follow your bliss?
(author of New York Times Bestseller Your Money or Your Life) introduced to us when we met her at the Chautauqua Retreat in Ecuador (back in 2017). It is a wonderful self transformation template that can be used by anyone looking to design their best life so I felt like it was worth sharing. Are you ready to follow your bliss?
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If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we are aspiring minimalists that have decided to sell most of our possessions in 2018 to make the world our home and nomadic travel our new lifestyle. As part of our journey, we became big proponents of the slow movement and have incorporated it into our lives beyond slow travel by embracing slow food and slow living which have made our lives more meaningful and fulfilling.
In this article, let’s slow down (pun intended) and take a step back to talk more about our origin story. Where do we come from individually, what brought us together, what led us to decide to leave most of our possessions behind us to become perpetual nomads and where do we see this new lifestyle leading us.
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For most people, it takes time to make money and, traditionally, it took more time to make more money (think overtime for example). The paradox is that we don’t have time to actually enjoy the money we’re making and are instead just running on the human hamster wheel. So let’s talk about the paradox of time and money, how too much of one affect the other and check if you might need to change your current mix.
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Have you ever come home from a vacation feeling more exhausted than you were before you left? Maybe you want to try slow travel. As a nomadic couple who sold everything to make the world our home, we have been embracing slow travel for almost a year now so we thought it was enough time to share what we love about it, what are some of the tips that can help you get started and why you should consider it. So let’s slow things down…
(more…)“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later”.
Randy Komisar, Monk and the Riddle
As Mrs. Numbers and I were preparing our nomadic journey around the world, we decided that it would be a great idea to start a blog to capture our journey and share it with our friends and family. What was initially going to be a simple log book of our travels, turned out to be much more than that…
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