International travel

All year long I plug away with my head down, fingers flying on the laptop, sneaking the necessary desk time in between bouts of adventure and note-taking. I’m taking stock at the end of the year to look at the most popular cheap travel articles on this blog I’ve been running since 2003.  In a …

Are you using your freedom to travel, or are you pinned down by chains of your own making? Have you become a creature of habit, a man of routine, a predictable woman? Do all those travel dreams of yours keep getting pushed further and further back? What if you set a deadline for travels, like …

If you’re looking at moving abroad or becoming a digital nomad down the line, you’re going to become very concerned about which cheap countries have the fastest internet so you can get work done and do video calls. You may need to run an online business via Wi-Fi and do bandwidth-heavy activities like uploading videos. …

“I’m all for sticking everything in storage and moving abroad to cut my expenses, but what I do for a living isn’t portable. What am I going to do for work if I go traveling or move to another country? How do I look for international jobs? How do I make money after moving abroad?” …

Editor’s note: This post is from a few years ago, before the NYT dropped their affiliation with the local travel show. Hey, newspapers are not what they used to be and they don’t have the stable of advertisers they used to. I’m leaving this up as a snapshot with some interesting tidbits though. I just …