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And We're Off! Our Family NomadingYear Begins

By Carmen

Getting ready to take off for a year of travel means a lot of activity around the departure date!  With our departure from Austin, Texas set for June 22nd there was a lot to do in the final weeks.  Our dear friends from the kids' school hosted a going away party for us, complete with Brazilian capirinhas.  It was a wonderful way to be able to say goodbye to more people than we would have been able to have individual time with.  The girls got to spend some final moments swimming, dancing and playing basketball and ping pong with their friends, and Tony and I got to have some fun conversations with other parents.  It may have been somewhat awkward for Tony since he is not able to do the whole trip with us.  Both he and I answered many questions about how this would work and when he would visit.  I think for a lot of families it is difficult to imagine being separated for this length of time.  Ideally, Tony would join us, but unfortunately in his particular career as a state employee, telecommuting has not yet become acceptable.

After a very lovely evening, we turned our attentions to the final preparations.  The addition of our house needed to be readied to rent.  A renter had already been found through our school community and we needed to remove all of our personal belongings and get the place clean.  I was thinking it shouldn't be too difficult since we had only lived in the addition ourselved for 2 years but it is amazing how many personal items and dust can accumulate in even a short time.  As everything got emptied out, Mia and her friend, Bianca (who will be joining us in Brazil) had a grand time climbing to the top shelves of the closet and peering over the walls!  It is our hope to break even with the money we spend for rent in Brazil and what we bring in in Austin.

I tried each day to do a few hours of preparation and be sure to include some fun in the day.  Since the kids were already out of school it was too much to ask for all work and no play.  We spent time visiting our favorite swimming spots in Austin, including Deep Eddy and Barton Springs.  During these last few days our oldest daughter turned 16 so we also had a birthday celebration and attended an outdoor concert. 

Since our new renter will be sharing the kitchen with Tony, my cleaning efforts needed to extend to other parts of the house.  I'm really not a great housekeeper!  I'd rather be working or homeschooling than mopping.  As a result, I was pulling things out of the refrigerator that looked like the mummified remains of King Tut!

On to packing.

One of the biggest challenges with this particular trip is that we are starting out in the summer of the U.S. and moving on to the winter of Brazil.  We hear Florianopolis is having one of it's coldest winters and friends have told us to bring full winter clothing.  I have been determined to keep everyone to one suitcase and one carry on with the exception of my daughter's viola.  The cello did not make the cut!  In order to do this and have access to summer clothes for the first leg and winter clothes for the second leg I did this: I had each of us pack our summer things and as many winter things as possible into our alloted bags.  Then I mailed a box to Connecticut with our winter coats and a few sundry items like school books.  We have been using our summer clothes on the east coast. When we depart the east coast on July 7 we will unpack our winter coats and put our summer clothes into the box.  I will mail the box of summer clothes to Brazil (since we won't need them for a couple of months).  That way hopefully we will save some money.  I found it was pretty difficult to weigh our bags at home and only hoped we were within the 50 lb limit.  The picture you see is everything we took for 4 people to stay away for a year (minus the box of winter clothes).

With everything ready to go, we awakened at 6 am and Tony drove us to the airport.  We said a short goodbye since we would see Tony a few days later on the East Coast and moved towards check-in only to find that one of our bags was overweight by 6 pounds.  Rather than pay the fine we did a frantic re-arrangement of stuff from the offending bag to another slightly underweight bag and were able to get everyone into compliance.  The flight from Austin to Dallas was uneventful. Unfortunately the travel took a turn at this point.

We had a scheduled 3 hour layover in Dallas. This turned into a 4, then 5, then 6 hour layover as the flights were delayed for weather in Boston. Next, we were told the landing gear on the plane was broken.  Finally, we chose to spend the night in Dallas when it became clear that our arrival in Boston would be well after public transportation shut down.  This was the right move as it turned out other people waited much longer and eventually the flight did not go at all.  We tried to make the most of our night in a somewhat seedy hotel with a final meal of Tex-Mex food and breakfast of Texas shaped waffles!

We were very happy to finally arrive in Boston that afternoon where we stayed with cousins for 2 nights.  It is so wonderful to be able to reconnect with family and for the kids to have a sense of how there cousins live on the other side of the U.S.  We were greeted with cool temperatures and rain.  Although all of our East Coast friends were feeling down about the un-summerlike temperatures, I was overjoyed to be out of the Texas 100+ heat!  Our cousins live on a lovely pond and there is a feeling you are in the wilderness even though in reality it is the suburbs.  The kids also enjoyed feeding their chickens, seeing their huge vegetable garden and eating my sister-in-law's homemade yogurt, strawberry syrup and fresh eggs.

From the suburbs of Northborough, Massachusetts we made our way to the town of Cohasset.  Cohasset is on the Massachusetts shoreline north of Cape Cod and is the town that was used in the filming of "The Witches of Eastwick" with Jack Nicholson.  It is the quintessential New England shore town with lovely homes and gardens.  Here we stayed with an old college friend of mine and her family.  My 8 year old was completely impressed when our 10 year old hostess told us she owned her own sailboat.  We walked to the end of their block where a boat picked us up to take us to the Cohasset Yacht Club.  Here my friend's daughter took each of the girls out on her sailboat one at a time for a short ride.  It's amazing how a 10 year old child can command her own boat with such precision!  Unfortunately, all the water in Cohasset was closed to swimming due to bacteria so the next day we went to the shore in Scituate.  Here the water has nice big waves, there is a long stretch of sandy beach and a rock that makes a natural slide.  We finished our visit with burgers and ice cream at the local street side joint.  Then on to Connecticut.

 South Lyme Connecticut is the home of Point O' Woods, a beach community where my mother in law's father built a vacation home in the late 40's.  We arrived here 3 days ago and will remain until we fly to Brazil next Monday.  Our family has enjoyed our visits here for many years but not until I was able to make my income mobile have we been able to stay for longer periods.  It's great to let the kids enjoy the same traditions that their parents, grandparents and great grandparents have enjoyed.  Ice cream on the beach, beach movies, crabbing and swimming to the dock are but a few of them.  Yesterday was spent catching 57 crabs and letting them race back to the water 2 at a time, then finding sea glass.  Later we'll go hunting for an abandoned grave in the woods.

The challenge ahead of us lies in reconfiguring our luggage for the trip to Brazil and trying to get the girls to continue practicing their Rosetta Stone Portuguese despite the constant lure of fun with their cousins.  I can't tell you how thankful I am to be traveling again, to be able to give our kids these experiences and to be able to maintain my work while doing so.

Survey Results - Money, Nomads, and Fears

Recently the results of a survey created by Free Pursuits and Location Independent have come out and the results are really interesting. While there is a lot in the data, I'd like to focus today on the area of money fears and realities among location independent/nomadic people and those who want to be. When asked the question, "What's the greatest fear you have about location independent living?" there was a significant percentage of both current nomads (we'll use this term from here on since it is brief) and aspiring nomads who named financial issues as their biggest fear. These financial issues were expressed in many ways including fear of running out of money, fear of losing their income source, fear of their businesses drying up, etc. So I wanted to take a closer look at these fears against the reported realities.

Current nomads were asked the questions, "Do you earn more or less since you became location independent?" and "Do you spend more or less since you became location independent?" Aspiring nomads were asked, "Do you think you will earn more or less when you become location independent?", and "Do you think you will spend more or less when you become location independent?"

Current nomads reported the following:
"Do you earn more or less since you became location independent?"

13 much less
23 less
11 same
22 more
11 much more

"Do you spend more or less since you became location independent?"

24 much less
29 less
18 same
16 more
3 much more

Aspiring nomads expressed the following:
"Do you think you will earn more or less when you become location independent?"

14 much less
50 less
27 same
52 more
15 much more

"Do you think you will spend more or less when you become location independent?"
19 much less
67 less
45 same
34 more
3 much more

For those of you, who like me, are visual learners, please click below to see a 3D chart of these results compared
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Here's what I find interesting in these results:

If you look at the distribution of actual nomad earnings you will see that it is almost completely balanced. While 11 reported no change in income 33 reported earning more/much more and 36 reported earning less/much less. Differences between the extreme "much more/less" categories and their less extreme counterparts were also near mirror images of each other.

How does this reality compare to the image aspiring nomads have of earnings while on the road? It's actually pretty accurate. Aspiring nomads showed a similar pattern and distribution for what they imagine they may earn while living an location independent lifestyle. The only differences were in extremities. The actual nomads have less variability in their answers while the aspiring nomads show a steeper curve in those who dream they will earn more or less as compared to earning the same.

Now let's look at spending.

Actual nomads reported a definite reduction in spending while on the road as compared to their former life. Again, aspiring nomads have got an accurate image of this, the only differences being in the degree to which they believe they will spend less.

So, what does this all mean? We see here that there really seems to be no significant differences in earnings for actual nomads or in beliefs about earnings by aspiring nomads. As for spending, the majority of actual nomads are spending less or much less and aspiring nomads are envisioning a pretty accurate although perhaps exaggerated picture of this. In a nutshell, nomads are earning the same and spending less, and onlookers are gaining a fairly accurate picture of the reality.

We return then to the fear factor. In spite of the reality, there lurks a significant fear among actual nomads and aspiring nomads alike that the money coffers are going to dry up while they're on the road. As a coach and former psychologist I've spent a lot of time speaking with people about fears and their dreams. It's important when faced with any fear to try to sort through perception vs. reality. In other words, "You worry that you may run out of money on the road? What is the evidence that tells you this can happen?" "What about being on the road do you think makes you more likely to run out of money or work vs. if you were at home?" Now, I'm not saying that a nomad has never run out of money or work and had to come home. However, I think we can all name enough people who have run out of money or work without ever traveling or living out their dreams.

If you are among the many with this worry another question you might ask yourself would be this, "Given the worse case scenario (perhaps all your clients tell you to shove it in the same week and you are on a mountain in Timbuktu) what would you do?" "Are you really safe from losing your income if you stay home?" "Is it worth it?"

Preparing Kids for Nomadic Travel - Languages

By Carmen Bolanos
May 28,2009

As strongly as I feel about the merits of travel, I feel equally strongly that children should also have an opportunity to experience the world and cultures different from their own. When we take off next month I'll be leaving with my 3 daughters, ages 8, 14 and 16 for a semester of school in Florianopolis, Brazil. My husband will be staying behind this time but we hope he will visit as often as possible. I am lucky that he is understanding and willing to give us this opportunity even if he can't participate in the same way.

My two oldest daughters have been in a Waldorf/Steiner school here in Texas. My youngest was in the same school but has been home-schooled the last 2 years. At first I thought I'd probably spend the traveling year homeschooling like our nomadic friends, the Atkins family and soultravelers3. In fact, after our planned 5 months in Brazil I may very well home-school for the remainder of the year depending on where we land.

However, for our first destination we found (through the help of a friend)another Waldorf/Steiner school in Brazil that accepted all 3 kids! The opportunity for them to make close friends of their age and be completely immersed in the culture was too much to pass up. (Not to mention, my professional life could use some more designated hours without children.)

While all three are really excited about the opportunity there are also some nerves in the mix. My youngest is especially anxious about being in a classroom of kids where she doesn't speak the language. Enter the Rosetta Stone!

I decided to get the Rosetta Stone, Brazilian Portuguese version and installed it on my laptop. I've been so pleased that the method of this software is such that all of us are able to learn from it. It's amazing to watch my daughters picking up the basics of the language and hearing their beautiful accents forming. So I wanted to share this video of Mia learning Portuguese this week. It's really helping her confidence as well as the rest of ours.

NuNomad, Digital Nomad, Technomad, Lifestyle Designer, What the Heck am I?

by Carmen Bolanos
May 20, 2009

O.K. - so I'll be honest. This last year I spent many months underground in the nomad world for various personal reasons (and also working on our new book!). However, I've realized I can't turn away from my passion and I'm back now with a vengeance, determined to make a place in this nomad world. Upon my return to the land of the ever-moving I have found a total explosion of nomads - especially on Twitter. At first it was pretty intimidating to see the number of folks out there who have jumped into the tidal surge. On the other hand, it is exhilarating to see the idea of this alternative lifestyle really taking off.

What I'm finding is a community of independent, adventurous people all trying to put a name to our love of extended travel and permanent freedom from the cubicle. There are a lot of terms flying around out there and I'll be the first to admit that our term, NuNomad, is just another one in the pool. Digital Nomad, Technomad, Lifestyle Design are a few of the most common. Of course, Timothy Ferriss' 4 Hour Work Week has a lot to do with the surge as well as the term lifestyle design.

I had to ask myself, are we at NuNomad different than any of the many nomads out there in our approach? Certainly we overlap more than not. However, something came to me last night that I would like to make a statement about.

If you're an avid fan of reading nomadic sites and blogs you've probably noticed a preponderance of tech talk. Everything from discussions about wifi and the lightest laptops to the necessity of learning how to make a fortune online is out there. Some sites will leave you believing that if you can't set up your own personal web empire (via their method which you pay for, I'll add) then you may as well resign yourself to punching the time card.

This pisses me off. Yes, you'll find a lot of tech info and advice on our mother site NuNomad, but let's be clear - being a techie is just one way to skin the cat. I mean, come on, we're a community of rabid independents right? And in such a community you're never going to tell a person there's only one way to do things! If you want to nomad you are only limited by your own creativity. Does it take organization, planning and determination? You bet. It probably will also take some time to get all your ducks in a row to make the thing happen. But you can make your nomadic life happen your way. That's why if you'll read some of our past interviews with nomads you'll see a huge variety of backgrounds. Along with a healthy gang of more tech oriented folks we've also interviewed photographers, trapeze artists, balloon artists, film makers, bio-fuel enthusiasts and coaches. My next targets are salespeople, biotech people and real estate folks. All these professions and more are nomadable.

So, let's put a stake in the ground here and say that we're here to brainstorm with you about your ideas on how and where to be a nomad. We're here to support you along the way. And we're here to learn from you as much as you from us. Let's build a great community for all nomads alike!

Visa Nerves

A big part of why I've come to be so passionate about NuNomad and nomadic lifestyles in general is that deep in my bones I am a non-conformist. Non-conformity and bureaucracy do not get along well together. And so I'm finding the whole process of applying and waiting for our visas to Brazil excruciatingly nerve wracking!

After hosting some Brazilian students for 3 months in our home last year and having other close Brazilian friends who have invited us to their home, our kids and I were convinced that this is a country full of warm, loving people who want to enjoy life at the fullest and that it is the place we should be. I'm still convinced of that. So - why is their visa process so unfriendly and difficult? It's as if aliens have descended on this loving country and are guarding the gates to make sure no one else (at least not U.S. citizens) are tempted to visit. I say U.S. citizens because the process is much, much simpler for those of you coming from Europe and many other countries. In fact, when you read further into the fee structure, rules, etc. it becomes apparent that many of the hoops U.S. citizens have to jump through are simply set up in reciprocation for hoops we make Brazilians jump through to enter the U.S. In fact, they go so far as to have an entire page of "Reciprocal Fees" where they state that this is basically a tit for tat scenario.

Half of me is cheering the Brazilians on - "Good for you! Show the U.S. you're not going to be bullied or have your citizens treated shabbily by us without consequence!" And the other half is simply exhausted as yet another simple human being who is just trying to see the world and is really not personally political. Wouldn't life be happier if we could just move as we wanted without the intervention of all this red tape! Maybe someday - but now I'm sounding like John Lennon.

In the meantime, I'm nervously waiting to see if we get our visas. There are many places where they could deny me. The frustrating thing is they won't accept questions and they state you can follow the progress of your visa on the consular website but there is no link or instructions on how to do so. So I guess it's just a blind waiting game. Cross your fingers, light your candles and say a prayer for us! I'll let you know what happens next week.

What Does it Cost to Travel the World? What Does it Cost Not to?

Carmen Bolanos
May 6, 2009

Many people dream of world travel but assume it's not achievable because of the high cost involved. Especially in today's uncertain economy the idea of laying down a thousand dollars on an airline ticket can seem absolutely foolish.

So, amid our climate of financial fears many of my friends look at me incredulously when I say I'm about to take off for a year of travel with our 3 children for no reason but to enjoy our lives and see the world. Most of them know we have struggled financially through the years and like many Americans we have just kept our heads above water. How can we or any ordinary person possibly make it work?

Here's how.

We live in a suburban area of a major U.S. city. This means our family must have 2 cars (one large enough to fit 5 plus a friend or two), and that we must drive our cars many miles per year above the national average just to get to school, the grocery store, work and back. We've also chosen a private education for our kids. 3 tuitions proved to be too much, so we are now footing 2 tuitions and I'm homeschooling our youngest. This means I do not have a lot of hours in the week to promote or build my coaching business. Luckily, by word of mouth and with thanks to several very loyal clients I have maintained a solid core of a practice.

In addition we have a large home with a mother-in-law plan. When we take off we will be renting the mother-in-law addition for some extra income. Here's how it looks:

The costs of traveling?

• Air fare
• Rental of house or apartment at our destination
• Telephone system to maintain clients
• Wi-fi capability
• Groceries at destination prices
• School tuition in destination for 3 children
• Visa fees
• Transportation in destination

The cost not to?

• Car payment for second car
• Car insurance for second car
• No rental income from home
• Cellular phone bills for 2 extra family phones
• Private school tuition for 2 children
• Private music lessons for 2 children
• Gasoline
• Groceries at U.S. prices

I won't bore you with all the numbers here - but I'll tell you this. When you remove the airline tickets from the cost of travel we will be saving about $3000.00 US per month on expenses. Over the course of a year - you can do the math - that's a whole lot of savings. Even adding the airfare back in we come out ahead.

Think about your life - what does it cost you not to travel? Interested? Keep in touch with us. Our upcoming book, The NuNomad, will have a step by step guide to walk you through your own numbers.

Passport Photos for Free or Almost Free

So as many of you know, I am about to take off with my 3 kids for a year. Since I'm not wealthy I have to be really careful about where the money goes. Even the small expenses aren't so small when you have to multiply everything by 4. We already have passports from our nomading trip to Europe in 2006. Luckily, the kids have not outgrown theirs yet so I'm saving a bit of money that way.

I remember marching them all up the street from the post office where we got our passport applications to a passport office where the pictures were taken more cheaply. Still, we paid probably about 10 bucks a piece.

This time, since we'll be going to Brazil we need to complete visa applications which also require a 2x2 inch photo (in other words, a passport photo). Walgreen's charges about 7 dollars each. OK, so that's not too expensive, but again, multiply by 4 and we're getting close to $30 and to me that's a meal out for everyone on the road. On top of that, I just get irritated knowing I would pay about 19 cents for printing a photo of that size that's not a passport photos. What's the difference?! So I started looking at alternatives.

I was really pleased then, as you can imagine, to find EPassportPhotos. This is a site that will allow you to create and download a sheet of passport size photos for free. It even has regulation sizes for many different countries.

Here's how it works. You stand your subject in front of a white wall, make sure ther'e not a lot of shadow behind them, and snap a picture of their head and shoulders. You upload this picture to EPassportPhoto and crop it until it fits within their guidelines. EPassportPhoto then multiplies the picture and fits 5 of them onto a 4x6 page. If you would like to have them printed and delivered to you they do charge a fee similar to Walgreen's (but this is with delivery to your home). If not, you can download the photo and have it printed at your nearest photo processor for about $.19 per sheet (a whole lot cheaper than 7 dollars!) or you can print it on your own photo quality paper at home for free.

And if you want to be uber-cheap like me - I cropped the downloaded files, collaged them 6 to a 4x6 sheet on Picasa and printed my entire family on one sheet of 4x6 photo paper. Only one piece of paper and a lot less ink!

The one downside - I still haven't figured out how to make myself look good in the picture!

Nomad Wannabe? Make the Swine Flu Work for You!

May 1, 2009
Carmen Bolanos

As the swine flu panic continues to spread through the world I can't but help feel grateful that I'm in a mobile profession. Making business mobile for most of us means that we can work from home if/when we want. Whether your home is a hut in Tahiti, apartment in Budapest, or cabin in Alaska, it's great to know that if a pandemic hits your area you can stockpile some food and hunker down for a few days without losing your income. It used to be, when I was in private practice, not showing up to my office for one day would mean several hundred dollars loss. Now, working by telephone and internet it makes no difference at all. I realize that I am fortunate to be in this position but I love helping others achieve it as well.

Are you in a profession where your clients want to see you in person? Or perhaps in a career where your boss insists your body must be in the cubicle next to his? You may be able to make the swine flu work for you. Here are some ideas on how to make use the swine flu to free yourself!

1) Open discussion with your boss, co-workers or clients about the current swine flu situation and suggest a contingency plan for work if there is an outbreak near you.

2) Demonstrate to your boss or clients how your job may be done effectively via telephone, email, video-conferencing - whatever is appropriate to your profession.

3) Suggest a trial day or morning to see how this technology might work for all involved.

4) Once you have agreement to try out a virtual scenario - blow everyone away with the quality of your work and productivity. You must prove that you can get as much or more done from home as you did in the office.

5) Afterwards, de-brief with everyone what the experience was like and emphasize the positives.

If you can demonstrate the pros to working from home you are more than half way to freeing yourself from the everyday trudge to the office. After a positive experience, suggest that you might try this on a periodic basis. As others become more comfortable with the idea you will be able to increase the frequency that you work from home. Before you know it - you may be able to be on the road with your income intact!

Come Along for a Year Long Journey with Kids

April 26, 2009
Carmen Bolanos

In our bout of blog absence while we've been working on our new book (at the agent's right now - cross your fingers for us!) I have also been planning my next working journey. While my NuNomad partner, Ricardo, is a veteran nomad of nearly 20 years, I am much more of a newbie.

Part of my challenge has been that, like many people, I have a family including 2 teens, an 8 year old, my husband, our home, dog, fish, frogs, etc. and all the sundry bills and obligations that come with such a life. We are also not wealthy.

Nevertheless, we will be traveling for a year beginning July. Our first destination is chosen, the tickets are purchased, and we are full of excitement. Many of our friends are wondering how in the heck we're pulling it off. Perhaps you're wondering that too. If so - I invite you to stick with this blog. I will be writing regularly about how we've made our choices for destinations, transportation, accomodations, technical equipment, etc., etc. You can also read along as I organize our home life to proceed while we're away. And to top it off, my goal is to prove we can have a fantastic adventure and spend less money that we have in years!

So - come along for the ride as we leave Austin, Texas. First stop: Boston, Massachusetts to be followed by NYC, Sao Paolo and then Florianopolis, Brazil.

Is now the time to nomad?

Opening a newspaper or visiting a news web site these days is enough to paralyze even the most seasoned caffeine addicted stock trader. It’s scary, we know that. So, with the current rising unemployment, inflation pulling on what’s left of your savings along with a dismal outlook for an economy that is in near paralysis over the looming threat of a depression, one must ask them self “Is now a proper time to nomad?”

Well, for those who take a precautionary approach to life, the answer might be “Stay put. Weather the storm. This is no time to go be going footloose.” We at NuNomad say, On the contrary! Now is a fine time to bolt. The ship of economic harmony is sinking and there’s room for a few on the lifeboat of independence and solvency. Would you really rather stay behind and rearrange the deck chairs? Are we being glib? (Perhaps a little.) Here’s one way to access the current global crisis with under another perspective.

Let’s start with you: You have some, yet not enough, work to pay the bills. Your overhead is killing you, and all the while you yearn for a new gig. Now let’s say that you’re working from home (freelancer or telecommuter) or at your own little office. You have your own clients or a flexible enough vocation which will allow you to work remotely.

The new economic option: It is far less expensive to work out of an apartment in Bangkok, a bungalow in Bali, a hammock in Mexico, or even out of a loft in Prague than it is to maintain residence in New York, Los Angeles, London— Austin. Now factor in that people are worried—especially the folks who work in tourism—so prices are becoming more competitive. This is an opportunity to take advantage of.

Your opportunity: Get a place on the beach for $10 a night. Find a reduced cost air ticket. Get down to the bare necessities and take your life mobile. Food will surely be less, and since you’ll likely to make about the same amount of money in your new surroundings, you’ll be able to bank some savings. Sound too good to be true? Well, that depends on many personal factors. For those with too many constraints, this may not be tangible for the moment. For others, it might be very doable soon—that is, with the right preparation.

The preparation: If you’ve visited NuNomad.com, you’ve already read the basic steps of preparing for NuNo living: Prepare your vocation; prepare your travel gear; and, prepare your mobile office. Then you can take off into the work-travel world.
That’s correct. You should not, save for those who have some experience in this lifestyle and have very few anchors at home, just run out of the home/office today for the airport screaming, “I’ve had enough of this nightmare!” However, with adequate preparation you’ll be able to do so soon. (Please visit nunomad.com/preparation.htm for more on this).

Getting your head together about nomading: The NuNomad Blog and Forum are great places to start. Here you’ll read about other nomads who have and are currently working remotely, continents away from “home”.

Destinations: There are lots of great choices out there for you to consider. The NuNomad Destinations section (NuNomad.com/destinations.htm) is a great place to start. We’ve listed such places as Spain, Czech Republic, Australia, Jordan, Vietnam and more—from how to access the Internet to the cost of living.

The Nuts and Bolts of NuNomadic Travel: Our ebook, “Quit Dreaming and Go!” can assist you with all facets of pre-travel preparedness. From preparing your profession to recommended travel immunizations. This is must read stuff for the newbie nomad.
Got questions? Please share them in the NuNomad Forum.