Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22302495)

I relinquished my apartment in Louisiana in April of 2015 and have been living out of hotels, Airbnbs and friend's houses since.

So far, I have lived/stayed in New York City, Cancun, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico City, Medellin, Bogota, London, Paris.

I travel with 2 monitors in my luggage with my Macbook Pro and Das Keyboard.

https://i.imgur.com/E6srF0x.jpg

Many places in Central and South America are much more affordable than in the states and are much more fun!

Originally Posted by Sid70 (Post 22305232)

Lame.

Nomads travel with a laptop only.

Originally Posted by Sid70 (Post 22305232)

Lame.

Nomads travel with a laptop only.

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22305250)

gf

Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1 (Post 22304601)

I didn't know Spanish or Portuguese when i started travelling. Bought books, use duolingo, and went after the woman. Having a Portuguese / Spanish speaking girlfriend makes learning go faster. Because hardly anyone speaks English in Brazil, you must adapt. I had some private Spanish lessons 3 hours a day in Mexico City for 6 weeks. But i want more lessons, cause now i am in Asia longer time and than you forget things. And i speak Spanish Portugues, when i am in Mexico they think i am from Brazil :)

My advice, learn Spanish / Portugues, that makes travelling a lot more interesting than hanging out with only English speaking people. If you don't speak Spanish and avoid countries that use Spanish language, you miss a lot. I looked it up and Colombia and Mexico use the most 'clean' spanish. take some private lessons there.

Before i became full time traveller i already went to Brazil and South America, not speaking the language. Didn't stop me from going there, with hands, a small dictionary you can fid your way. Now it is even more simple, use a translate app. People speak in your smartphone and you see what they said. You can take a picture from the menu and Google will translate it. But i prefer speaking the language. I stayed 2 years in Brazil, hanging out with Brazilian, than you will learn automaticly. In Brazil it is best to avoid regions where are many English speaking tourist. Much much much more fun when there aren't. In Brazil i know a place with many digital nomads. I went there years before. Than it was fun, now you have the white colony of western only going with western.

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22305150)

I speak a little Spanish, enough to get by. I know enough to order food and ask for the check at restaurants. "La cuenta por favor" means "The check please". Google translate works well enough if I can't articulate myself sufficiently. I can simply type out a sentence in English and read it aloud Spanish or show them my phone screen. I did this the first time I joined a Gym in Cancun and needed a 1 month membership.

I've learned numbers by playing Poker with Spanish speaking players. I try to learn a few new words in Spanish per day. More touristy areas allow me to not depend on my Spanish so much, as the workers can speak better English than I do Spanish. I've only had a couple mishaps of misunderstanding. My favorite was when I said to the bartender "Hey cabron, la cuenta por favor". I thought "cabron" meant "buddy", but it means "dumbass".

I greatly dislike working without the additional monitors. I'm much more efficient with them.

Originally Posted by Sid70 (Post 22305232)

Lame.

Nomads travel with a laptop only.

Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy (Post 22305267)

You tell 'em, Sid.


That ain't nomadic at all.

Originally Posted by kane (Post 22305282)

Cool. Thanks for the info. I think I am going to take a few Spanish classes. I want to go to Costa Rica, Chile, and Argentina among others.

Originally Posted by JasmineNoirr (Post 22303954)

I envy you for all that traveling

Originally Posted by shimmy2 (Post 22305796)

haters gon hate.

Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1 (Post 22306009)

If you go to Argentina look what is best with money. Just read some people complaing about the exchange rate at banks. Cash could be better. When i went there was the 'blue dollar'. That was the illegal money exchange cause USD was forbidden. 25% more pesos for the same dollar. Now there are problems again, but don't know what the procedure is now to get most for your usd/eur.

What is the best place for black latina's Shimmy?

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22316655)

I always find that getting cash out of the ATMs has best fees.

Originally Posted by Look Chang (Post 22316797)

Actual digital nomad imho ... :stoned

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Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22330527)

Using a laptop on a sandy beach is not exactly practical for several reasons.

Originally Posted by selena (Post 22336828)

Love your pics! Keep living the good life.

Originally Posted by SecondFloor (Post 22343655)

So cool there are other nomads here! Thats how my business partner and I got into the affiliate industry. We were working remotely for a large company for a while, and travelled for over a year. Then layoffs hit, and we decided to to use our web skills to run our own sites.

We're still working on building our sites to the point where we're totally free to do this, but we're getting closer little by little. As others have said, if you're willing to rough it a bit, you can live well on not much money! It also helps to be a young person in good health with zero responsibilities :thumbsup

I'm from the U.S., but I'm currently in Mexico until mid-November.

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22336596)

Same setup, different country.

https://i.imgur.com/VoIofKd.jpg

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22343822)

Where in Mexico?

Originally Posted by crucifissio (Post 22343894)

the 3 monitor + mechanical keyboard guy is the man...why work on a shitty small screen and type on a shitty laptop keyboard?

Originally Posted by crucifissio (Post 22343894)

the 3 monitor + mechanical keyboard guy is the man...why work on a shitty small screen and type on a shitty laptop keyboard?

he can still take a laptop and work on the beach, nobody is stopping him...

Originally Posted by SecondFloor (Post 22343991)

Merida, on the Yucatan Peninsula! It's a cool place. Very safe, and great food! I almost tripped on an iguana on the way home from the gym last week, so A+!

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22336550)

Shard

Originally Posted by Tube Ace (Post 22336552)

Staines