I Didn’t Become a Digital Nomad By Accident – Here’s How I Prepared
One of my pet peeves is when people tell me how I am so “lucky” after they learn I work remotely. While I absolutely have many privileges that I benefit from, it’s generally not people from developing countries with restricted passports who say this to me, it’s my...
Queer Nomad Feature: Deb
Alright, it seems these are gonna be a monthly kinda thing, ya dig? This time Deb is up! Deb is another one of the first members of the online community and we've gotten to meet in Berlin, too. In case you're tuning in for the first time, these features began in the...
Queer Nomad Feature – Anne Dorko
It's not so often you hear about other queer digital nomads. These features began in the Queer Women* Digital Nomads Facebook community as a way to get to know each other and see what other queer nomads are doing in the remote and entrepreneurial spheres. We're not so...
Digital Nomads: Stop Trying to Sell Me Your Shit
Traveling with Debt: Nurse Practitioner to Digital Nomad with US$160,000 in Student Loans
Traveling with Debt. It's a topic that is mostly ignored in the Digital Nomad and travel communities. We're bombarded with blog posts urging us to "quit our jobs, it's easy!". Yet, when you have a big fat student loan payment to make every month, it's not that simple....
I achieved my life goal in Izmir, Turkey. Spoiler: Kittens.
I never had a pet cat growing up. We were a dog and bird kinda family, and there was also a period of serial hamster adoption. I've since grown an intense fascination with cats. They are so, so weird. They love you and hate you at the same time, and they always choose...
How I ended up in Berlin & My Passionate Hatred of Aupairing
I arrived in Berlin as an aupair on August 18th, 2011. Berliner Dom at night Kids were never especially my thing, so you may wonder how this happened. All year I had been dating a German woman, whom I met during a Eurotrip the previous year. My plan was to move to...
On Failing: A move to Prague as a naive recent college grad
It's 2009. My final months of college, and everyone is asking “What’s next?” My opinion on the so-called "Real World" - shout out to my Tyler House peeps A move to Prague is not even on my mind. After a year studying abroad at the University of Sussex in Brighton,...
Digital Nomad Girls Retreat in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Life was getting a bit too normal I wanted to be re-inspired that alternate ways of living and working were possible, and surround myself with a group of badass women. Having attended and hosted a few Digital Nomad Girls meetups in Berlin, I was ready. The timing was...
Getting Back to My Roots – Blogging Honestly
Do you remember Livejournal? You know, that website where teens spewed out their deepest, most angsty shit. We teens in the early 2000s knew something about blogging honestly, for better or for worse. Expertly crafted, passive-aggressive teenage thoughts! Memes!...