Travel

For the first year of our life on the road, we carried a spreadsheet. Every city, every hostel, every train had a date and a price next to it. It made us feel organized and it made us miserable. Somewhere around month eight we missed a connection in northern Italy and watched our whole schedule … Read more

Last spring we rented a one-bedroom in a town of about four thousand people, forty minutes inland from the coast in central Portugal. The plan was two weeks. We stayed a month, and by the end we’d rewritten most of what we thought we knew about how to travel. This wasn’t our first slow travel … Read more

People ask us all the time how we afford this. The honest answer is less exciting than they want it to be: we don’t make a lot of money. We just spend it differently. For the past four years we’ve moved somewhere new every two or three months, and our monthly spend has stayed around … Read more

# How to Travel Slowly Without Quitting Your Job For a long time we believed the only honest way to travel was to sell everything, buy a one-way ticket, and figure it out on the road. That’s the version every travel blog sells you. It also ignores the obvious: most of us have rent, a … Read more