In my professional life, I am data-obsessed. I love setting up great tracking systems, setting goals and targets, and analyzing results. So, I thought it would be fun to report out a little data on our travels. Here is a look at Leg 1 by the numbers (with a few favorite lists thrown in): Where…
Category: FAQ
FAQ – What Have We Learned Halfway through our Europe Leg?
A few days ago, we hit the halfway point of our 116 days in Europe and today we’re at the halfway point of our six-week stay in Budapest, so it is time again to take stock of what we’ve learned. We’re at a very different point than when I wrote about what we learned after…
FAQ – What have we learned from a month on the road?
This week Chad and I celebrated our 1-month anniversary of traveling. We’ve already learned a lot in our short time on the road so far. Here is a brief summary. Busses aren’t that bad Our most frequent method of getting from city to city in the past month has been by bus. Busses are a…
FAQ – How is This Possible? (Pt. 3 – Circumstances Continued)
As we’ve shared the news of our upcoming with folks, people tend to point to a number of circumstances in a way that seems to imply “oh, you can do this because…” Of course, these are not the circumstances that I pointed out in my last blog post that I think are making this possible….
FAQ – How is This Possible? (Pt. 2 – Circumstances)
Beyond the tools previously discussed, Chad and I are lucky to be in very good circumstances to take on this type of lifestyle change. I don’t take that luck for granted. Here is a brief rundown of some of our current circumstances that are helpful to making this work. Please don’t mistake this for bragging…
FAQ – How Is This Possible? (Pt. 1 – Tools)
Several people have asked me “How is it possible that you’re going to be able to work and travel at the same time?” I’m pretty much an open book about everything, including financial stuff, so I’m always happy to respond in detail. I truly believe that anyone who really wants to do this can find…
FAQ – Why We Are Doing This? (long version)
A confluence of events forced us to realize that the time is right for this. We’ve had a tough couple of years, from about 2016 until pretty recently, primarily on the professional front. We were both working very hard and many hours, but that trickles into your overall happiness, satisfaction and ability to connect with…
FAQ – Why Are We Doing This? (short version)
We love to travel, and we’ve been very lucky to have many opportunities to travel internationally, through our own efforts (including a 30-day grand tour of Europe in 2008) and with The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (which gave us trips to Norway, Brazil and Bahrain). But while we occasionally dreamed in very vague terms of perhaps spending…
FAQ – What Are We Doing?
If you’re reading this blog, you probably already know that Chad and I are taking a year away from our usual professional endeavors to work online while traveling for a year. Two important things to understand about this experiment are 1) we will be working; we can’t afford to take a full year off from…