If you’re like us, finding the best small town destinations and off-the-beaten-path gems is a big reason why we love working remotely. Since becoming digital nomads in 2014 and trying out various places to live and work abroad, we’ve learned an important lesson: Some of the big “digital nomad hubs” are not really our style….
I first stumbled upon the relatively new concept of “digital nomads” by reading blogs when we were in Peace Corps and was instantly fascinated. After we completed our volunteer service, we spent the remaining 8 months of 2014 testing out the digital nomad lifestyle for ourselves. Eventually, we deemed that initial experiment a success. Today, the term…
COVID-19, a.k.a. the Coronavirus, is significantly impacting events and conferences. Recently, one of the in-person conferences that we both work on suddenly needed to become a virtual event at the last minute. Knowing that other event planners, meeting coordinators, and conference organizers will likely be in similar situations during Coronavirus lock down, I thought it…
We started our own remote freelance business in 2014. Over the years, we’ve narrowed down our favorite digital tools (and a few physical ones as well) that we thought would be useful for other digital nomads, remote workers, small business collaborations, and freelancers. Some quick background: How we make a living includes a combination of…
Updated: Summer 2020. Originally published: Oct 2018. As a digital nomad, working online while traveling, my mobile office setup started with my laptop. It was perfectly portable. But then I realized how much my posture was suffering. And I was getting joint pain in my hand from using my laptop’s track pad so much. I…
Our digital nomad life usually leads Jedd and I abroad, but there are plenty of people who are traveling long-term or living nomadically in the US, too. Some folks, like our friends Heath and Alyssa (who helped us write this post), live and work from an RV full-time. Others combine camping, couchsurfing, and work exchanges to…
Finding cool new places with wifi where we can work is one of the perks of being digital nomads. Although we’re not coffee aficionados, we really enjoy the “change of scenery” that coffee shops provide to our work week. In bigger cities, there are great resources like workfrom.co to find new cafes, co-working spots, and other work/study-friendly environments. I don’t…
Digital nomads are individuals that leverage wireless digital technologies to perform their work duties, and more generally conduct their lifestyle in a nomadic manner. Such workers typically work remotely—from home, coffee shops, public libraries and even from recreational vehicles to accomplish tasks and goals that used to traditionally take place in a single stationary workplace….