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“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.”
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https://www.ipasticcidellacuoca.com/r46esq9ex3 I would just like to say that this post is truly inspiring and true! 110% agree that possession is not everything, maybe to some that aren’t perhaps interested in travel, but its so much better than owning 2 or more cars, or buying a new ‘prada’ bag for example. Travel makes you a richer person i believe.
I’ll be travelling solo in a few months around SE Asia so i’m really looking forward to it!
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Very encouraging to hear from you Lynn!
Regina and I just decided (last night) that we will be moving back to Thailand for a year by March of next year. We came back with the intent of making some money, taking care of old paper work (mainly taxes), pay off random debt we accumulated over the years, etc. While here we found out that we were pregnant and had a baby girl (now 3 months old).
We have been here now 18 months, but like you said: We can’t wait to get back on the road again. The plan this time around is to not rely so much on savings, but to be 100% self supported through our online businesses (Regina’s food blog & my marketing ventures).
The nomadic dream in both of us is very much alive 🙂
Are you planning to revisit SE Asia this time around?
Konrad
I’ve been reading the comments and was wondering what you guys meant when you said you want to be 100% self supported through your online businesses. I was hoping you could elaborate on that and how that could be accomplished? I’m curious because I understand it’s what’s called being a digital nomad basically?
Hi Kay,
Excellent question. At this point we are 100% self supported through our online businesses (Regina’s food blog and my other ventures) and are also back in Thailand again, yay!
For us – being self supported basically means we don’t have a job to go to and that we have managed to grow the income off of our online projects (blogs mainly) to a point where we earn more than we need to live on. Digital nomads is the term used to describe us, correct.
I know a popular move is to start a travel blog, but as my post (that will go live in a few hours) explains, we chose to neglect this travel blog temporarily for the sake of focusing on our other projects.
I suppose we could do a series down the road on exactly what becoming a digital nomad looked like for us, but the key thing – for us – was this: Start a blog on a topic you’re passionate about, get committed to putting out useful content on a regular basis (1 to 3 times per week), and then optimize the site with either third party ads, affiliate links, or our own product. We have also done sponsored posts and other brand related work when the pay is good, but we’ll likely get away from that eventually.
I see a lot of digital nomads in coffee shops here who are freelancers – where they work for someone else (they are oftentimes writers, web designers, etc) – and although Regina and I have both done a bit of that in the past, it is a stressful way to make a living. We both prefer being our own bosses and hence focused on creating strong assets (our sites) that we can leverage instead of our time.
Not sure that helps. You’ve given me an idea for a future post though 🙂
Konrad
PS: – I just remember I wrote a bit more about this process on my SEO blog. See post here!