Our Top Apps for Travel

After traveling for nearly 4 years, we have been relying A LOT on apps to help us with our slow travel. It is actually quite hard to imagine how we would manage to plan a long trip, a 2 weeks vacation or even a getaway without them! Here are our top apps for travel that we can’t live without.

Making sleep a top priority – Oura ring review

Sick too often? Weak immune system? Low sex drive? Overweight? Over stressed?  Challenged to keep your weight under control? At risk of diabetes or heart disease? Having issues thinking clearly and performing well at work? Do you know what all of the above have in common? A lack of good and restorative sleep!

In this blog post, I would like to go over why sleep is so important in our life, how we have managed to optimize it and what device we’ve been using to make sure we stay on top of our sleep no matter where we are. If you never focused much on your sleep, you might want to read this blog post and it might be life changing for you. 

The ultimate note-taking solution for nomads: reMarkable 2 Review

The advance of technology over the past decade has made our nomadic lifestyle much more comfortable and manageable. However technology can also bring a lot of distraction and can even impact our sleep. So in early 2020, we decided to use good old paper notebooks to practice journaling and note-taking. After accumulating a few notebooks (weighing ~100g apiece) and spending a decent amount of time setting up our monthly spread to make our journaling efficient, I was wondering if technology could help us!

International phone plan options for travel – Google FI Review

As we embarked on long-term nomadic travel and thought about giving notice to our apartment in San Francisco, we had to figure out a few things. One was what to do with the stuff we’ve accumulated over the years (Our answer: to embrace minimalism. Another was what to pack to sustain long term travel (Our answer: to travel carry-on only). Another was how to handle all the physical mail we used to received while being overseas (Our answer: to subscribe for an online snail mail service).

Today we keep going down our list and will be talking about wireless services as it become quite hard to imagine how someone could navigate the world without having a functioning mobile device in his/her pocket. In this post, we will be going over the reason why we believe it is critical to have connectivity while traveling long term, which services we’ve been using since we started our journey, what are the alternatives and which option we recommend whether you want to travel the world long term or simply stay in the US.

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