Slow Travel, Simple Living & Location Independence
We’ve worked remotely for eight years, and for the first three of them we were doing it badly. We’d start work at odd hours, let it bleed into dinner, and feel vaguely guilty whenever we weren’t at our laptop. The freedom was real, but we were using it to work more, not better. It took … Read more
We’ve tried a lot of slow living habits. Morning pages. Digital sunsets. Meditating before coffee. Most of them lasted two weeks and then quietly died, because most of them ask you to add something to an already full day. The habit that actually stuck—the one we wish we’d started a decade sooner—asks the opposite. It … Read more
We work from a laptop and we still don’t have time to cook the way food magazines suggest. Nobody does. The people who tell you to “set aside an afternoon” to braise something for dinner are either retired or lying. We wanted slow food—real meals that taste like they took hours—without actually giving up our … Read more
The first time we tried one bag travel, we failed on purpose. We packed a 40-liter backpack for a two-week trip and then, at the door, panicked and stuffed a second duffel with “options.” we carried both. We used maybe six items from the duffel across the entire fourteen days, and three of those were … Read more
When people hear the word minimalism, most picture a white apartment with a single chair, one fork, and a mattress on the floor. We used to think that way too. For a while we tried to live up to it, and we made ourselves miserable. The real minimalism meaning took us years to understand, and … Read more
There’s a version of lightweight camping that looks like a shopping list: titanium this, ultralight that, a thousand dollars of gear that weighs less than your winter coat. We know, because we almost bought into it. Our first few trips, we assumed going light meant going broke. Then we actually looked at what we were … Read more
We grew up thinking hiking meant loading the car, driving two hours, and spending the whole day out. It’s why we barely hiked. Then we moved to a city and discovered, almost by accident, that there were four trailheads within a thirty-minute bus ride of our front door. We’d lived there for a year and … Read more
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
