Author: luxpat
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Nomad Spending: Optimizing for Time
We sold everything we owned for pragmatic reasons: we didn’t have anywhere to store it, we wouldn’t need it on the road, and we needed the money. We didn’t expect our spending habits to change just because we sold everything, but they did. Through nomad spending we realized what the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, says in this…
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Digital Nomad Pack List: The Top 20
The fun part of nomad prep: filling out your digital nomad pack list! Looking for a digital nomad pack list? Here are 20 that helped us settle on our own, and are all from experienced nomads. We tried to list posts that include both clothing AND digital nomad tech gear, and favored lists that provide links to buy the products.…
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Selling Everything to Become Digital Nomads: Intro
(a continuation of the Giving up the Script series) We’d sold our house. Now we had to sell everything in it to become digital nomads. We’d been living together since 2009 and had never done a serious purge. Though we’d moved several times, Amazon always paid to pack everything up and unpack it again. We put such little effort…
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A Nomad Family Pack List – Mom and Kid [Video]
What does a nomad family pack list look like? Good question. Digital nomad pack lists abound, but nomad family pack lists are hard to find if you’re looking for actual product recommendations and not just “sun hat, toddler sandals,” etc. Sooo, here’s ours if you’re interested. We’ve found some bags and products we swear by. We…
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Wish You Were Here: Huay Tung Tao Lake, Thailand
Winter never touches Thailand. From November through February, Thailand’s cool season is a perfect summer of endlessly sunny days that peak in the upper eighties. Chiang Mai is blessedly devoid of the shirt-sticking humidity Bangkok is known for, and so going to Huay Tung Tao lake is a lot like going to a lake back…
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Giving Up the Script: Selling our House to become Digital Nomads
We were done living lives crowded into the corners of Saturdays and Sundays. But how exactly were we going to disentangle ourselves from the script and become digital nomads? What kind of effort was it going to take write our own plot line through long term travel? Between September 2014 and September 2015, we sued someone to get…
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Wish You Were Here: Nara, Japan
It is winter in Nara, so the light that falls on Tōdai-ji temple is peach colored and hazy with wood smoke from the black steel carts that roast sweet potatoes for tourists. We are among the temple tourists, and we’ve also come to feed the messengers of the gods, liminal deer who inhabit the Nara temple…
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Giving Up the Script: The Lead Up
On a Sunday afternoon, we stood on the side of a road above the ocean. We didn’t glance at the Camps Bay houses spread out below us, nor the sea beyond them, though I’m sure we must have been shading our eyes, for at a certain time in the South African summer afternoon, the ocean turns…
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Giving Up the Script: Intro
A few months ago we sold our house, our belongings, and our loyalty to something I have begun to call The Script. David and I are not particularly radical people. We don’t have ascetic tendencies, we appreciate family and security as much as the next couple, and we come from solid middle class families. How…