Discovering the World Through Slow Travel
Jake here, with the July, 2018 edition of Operation Digital Nomad, our monthly report on the progress we have made toward monetizing our travel blog. It’s been a while since I mentioned our goal, which is to earn $4000.00 a…
Like many visitors to Venice, Italy, we decided to make three islands in the Venice Lagoon a part of our stay. We spent the month of May exploring the canal city, so we had plenty of time to find our…
Five Nights in Bangkok Thailand Our family had four days to spend in Bangkok, Thailand, and we decided to divide our trip between two hotels. As always, we did a little research, but like always, we also got a little…
Burano is probably the most photographed Island in the Venetian Lagoon, apart from the island of Venice, Italy itself. Burano has a few rooms for rent, but the island is so small and remote that most visitors decide to go…
In our adventures all over Europe and Asia, we’ve been to a number of places that made us nervous about traveling with a child. No amount of reading ever makes a parent’s concerns go away, but an honest look at…
Kunming, China is a big city, and one day isn’t really enough to explore it. But we do what we can with the time we have. Between flights, we had a little over a day to explore, and we did…
A lot of would-be travel photographers struggle when they are deciding which lenses to bring with them on a trip. If you are going on an extended trip, space is always a limiting factor and you are forced to make…
How much do we use Airbnb when we travel? A lot, as it turns out. Because we are slow traveling, spending a month at a time in every location, we depend on apartment rentals instead of hotels. We love Airbnb…
Ever since we started blogging – indeed, ever since we created a website to support our photography business in 2013 – the actual act of content creation has occasionally felt like an assault on my body. Work in any digital…
It’s Jake again, with our monthly installment of Operation Digital Nomad, the post in which I update everyone on our progress monetizing our travel blog so that we can travel the world indefinitely. As always, this post contains affiliate links,…
We saw Eilean Donan Castle as we drove through Dornie, Scotland, and we knew right away we’d be coming back. The castle stood on a rock in the water, with a long and winding stone bridge that brought to mind…
When we left home, Lisa was 16 months old. She’d just started walking around on her own. She had a vocabulary of one or two words. She had a personality, but it was a baby’s personality, and there was a…
It’s been a year now since we spent a month in France, splitting our time between Paris, the Loire Valley and Provence. The highlight of our trip was definitely the time we spent in Valensole, photographing the world famous lavender…
The Chinese app listicles we read before visiting China were… well… they were terrible. A lot of travel guides overestimate the number of translation apps you will need. You will need one (1). They overestimate your interest in the air…
Childhood Abroad, Reviews, Slow Travel
In May, we spent a day with our two year old daughter at Shanghai Disney. Before we started traveling, we lived in Florida, and we’d been to Magic Kingdom a number of times. Shanghai, The newest expansion of the Disney…
The car ride from Dali to Zhoucheng was a tight fit. I was in the front seat, next to the driver. Jake and his parents were in the back with Lisa on their laps. Jake’s parents had been visiting us…
We spent the entire month of November in Budapest, Hungary. It was the 11th month of our year of slow travel in Europe. We rented an Airbnb on the Pest side of the river, and explored from there. As usual…
In May of 2018 we went to the U.S. consulate in Shanghai, China to renew our passports. Dannie’s passport was set to expire in early 2019, and we new we’d need to resolve that soon or we’d run into trouble….
It’s Jake again, with our monthly installment of Operation Digital Nomad, the post in which I update everyone on our progress monetizing our travel blog so that we can travel the world indefinitely. As always, this post contains affiliate links,…
In July of 2017, we decided to really switch up our travels. Our travels had been dominated by famous European cities (see a list on our destinations page) but we decided to spend the entire Summer tent camping in Scotland…
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