I traveled every month for about ten years when I started in this biz. I really miss it. I am packing as we speak but going to Rio to check on my second home. Always an amazing time just too infrequent.

Yes, it is great. I now have a two floor concrete bunglaow, about 40m2 on an Island in Thailand. First floor living room with working desk and seaview. Second floor the bedroom with balcony and sea view, have fridge, tv, aircon. Sometimes monkey jumps on the balcony. Only 12 euro a day cause is low season.

I wake up and walk through a big green garden to the connecting restaurant for breakfast and dinner. Cost about 6 euro for a good (western) meal and 2,50 euro american breakfast. Can also on the street or cheaper restaurant for less or to the best restaurant that will be little more expensive. Than i walk to the other side of the street where there is a gym. Well, did it once and must look how many times i will go. Than i can walk to the beach in 10 minutes. Or use the motorbike i rent for 2,50 euro a day. When clothes are dirty, drop them off in the hotel and get them back clean for 2 euro.

There are several bars and restaurants, good western and Thai food. cause it is low seasons about 4 party's a week. You can go after backpackers, or the 'freelancers' that come out at night. ladyboys and girls, whatever you prefer. Here you have a sort of backpackers reggae vibe with bars with the same menu as coffeeshops in Holland...

Realy, you only have to care about keeping sites online and relaxing, the rest will be taken care of.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh . . .

OP: Dude, you're like Brian Dean... a digital nomad.
I'd love to adopt that lifestyle but I have a wife and kid.

This is what I do. When I travel I take a small Microsoft Surface Pro with a 16 inch US monitor. It's an AOC monitor, and comes with a protective sleeve. I can fit it in my carry on.

This is my set up on the road at a hotel in Burbank while at the ANME Founders Show last year.

https://content.screencast.com/users...07-13_1719.png

Here is what I use: https://www.amazon.com/AOC-e1659Fwu-...ds=usb+monitor

I did this for a couple of years in the early 2000's. I'm curious, do you speak Spanish? If not how did you find places like Mexico and South America for a non-Spanish speaker? I stuck to places that either spoke English or had a lot of English speakers like Norway, Australia, parts of Europe and the United States.

I only took a PC laptop with me with no extra monitors, although there were times I wish I had an extra and would have been more efficient.

He's looking for a date.

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.

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.

it may also mean buddy/ bastard, it all depends on the context and gow close u are to the person :)

Hey pendejo, how are you doing

Lame.

Nomads travel with a laptop only.

This was a popular sentiment in /r/digitalnomad

It seems like many people there are only interested in doing freelance writing or SEO work and surviving on making under $1000 USD while living in Chiang Mai or the absolute cheapest places on Earth.

When I first started traveling, I went a couple months with the laptop only and I was so unproductive. I even said out loud "I miss my monitors!" to my gf and she thought I was going to say "I miss my mom!". :1orglaugh

You tell 'em, Sid.

That ain't nomadic at all.

I've been wanting to take some Spanish classes. I think I will look into doing so in the fall. Thanks for the info.

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.

Well excuse me, fellas.

I suppose I should have titled the thread "Is anyone here running a successful online business while traveling the world and not remaining celibate?"

These are my next top 3 as well!

Just take the plunge. :thumbsup

Thank you for being honest and not attacking me like some others in this thread.

haters gon hate.

Even more lame of me, instead of these

https://us.123rf.com/450wm/hayatikay...-map.jpg?ver=6

http://www.antiquemaps-fair.com/imag..._173/19619.jpg


I use this

https://www.sleepinggiantmedia.co.uk...hone6-hero.jpg

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Hey shimmy! Honestly, the pics you posted years ago is what sparked my interest in running an internet business abroad.

Hope all is going well for you. Cheers!

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?

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

Most of the times yes, but when i was in Argentina that would have cost me 30% extra back than. Don't know the situation now. Even in Thailand you will save 3 - 10% when you bring cash. I do it sometimes to pay rent for a few months in advance.

Brazilian people have to pay an extra + 5% tax when they use their creditcard outside brazil. So they also bring cash many times. It all depends the country you are from and where you stay. But many times ATM is best.

"Brazil's government almost tripled a tax consumers must pay on credit-card purchases abroad to 6.38 percent. ... Gross spending by Brazilians abroad, including online retail purchases, jumped 38.5 percent in the first two months of the year to $3.1 billion, the central bank said last week.28 mrt. 2011"

I move frequently. Can't find the proper place, nor people, yet. Thought I did but, you know, they screwed it up, too. Just moved a couple of months ago and I have to move again really soon. Tired of that shit.

Great pics, nice life to live for sure :)

Actual digital nomad imho ... :stoned

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

Here are some pictures from our trip to England in March-June 2018:

Dover
https://i.imgur.com/Eqkl2cF.jpg

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

Fish and Chips

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

Old Red London Bus

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

Harry and Megan's Wedding

https://i.imgur.com/8wmFEU4.jpg

London Train

https://i.imgur.com/Z5fy16V.jpg

Mayfair

https://i.imgur.com/67XnhuN.jpg

Steaks (food doesn't have to be bland)

https://i.imgur.com/RG7pkfp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Haj15Gr.jpg

Video Texas Holdem an Ladbrokes off-track betting

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

Munchies

https://i.imgur.com/b7jwycn.jpg

The Shard

https://i.imgur.com/dJhT4o8.jpg

Windsor Castle

https://i.imgur.com/1KIUhwe.jpg

Tower Bridge

https://i.imgur.com/6TbFh5x.jpg

Natural History Museum

https://i.imgur.com/BjcPa7G.jpg

Bill Burr performing at Royal Albert Hall

https://i.imgur.com/Xl1PqoD.jpg

Eton

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

Thames River in Staines

https://i.imgur.com/QRmgK45.jpg

Same setup, different country.

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

chris why are you alone on travels? did you mingle? non trusting? sup?

Nice pics, maybe i must go to England. 24 years ago i was there when a friend studied there. But we where drunk most of the time.

2 weeks to go and still have to decide where to go now. I am in Holland for 6 weeks already. Will see Hamburg next week.

Lighten up, it's a stock photo . . .

Love your pics! Keep living the good life.

I don't about digital nomads, but here's a fuckload of digital gonads around here.

Thank you!