The End of the World Tour
After 3.5 years, all good things must come to an end.
I’m not exactly sure when Miranda and I stopped calling our travels the World Tour. We saw more of the world than most, but I think part of the reason we stopped calling it that was because we learned how little of the world we’d actually toured.
Miranda and I were digital nomads from March, 2022 through October, 2025.
In December 2020, while on a walk on the beach, Miranda and I decided to sell all our stuff and start traveling a few months after our leases in Ohio were to end. We spent the 15 months between that decision and when we left preparing.
Most preparations were professional: we needed to set up our businesses to operate while we were in various time zones. Not running out of money was a top priority.
Some were personal: we ended our leases and moved in with our respective parents for a few months, packed up all our stuff, donated most of it, and stored the rest in our parents’ basements.
A tiny bit of our preparation related to our relationship: we were very clear with each other that traveling full-time together was going to lead to a breakup or to a marriage.
In our 3.5 years as full-time nomads, we lived in 35 different countries and had over 125 overnight stops. Many countries and cities we returned to multiple times, like London, which I visited 12 times, Rome, which we visited three times, and Mexico City, which we visited twice.
During our travels, the two most common questions we were asked were “What’s your favorite place?” and “how do you know when to stop?”
The former question’s answer is “it depends,” (more on that in the Frequently Asked Questions). The latter’s answer, for the first two years, was “we don’t know.” We would jokingly say “We’ll stop when we get bored!”
The question “how do you know when to stop?” was commonly discussed, yet rarely-answered among the nomads we’d met. None of them had a good answer, either. We were at coffee in Medellin, Colombia, with Karina whom we’d met two days prior. Within our 45 minute hang-out, the big question had been asked and, predictably, left unanswered.
It wasn’t until April, 2024 — two years after we set off, that we discovered why we’d stop. We were meeting our friends Clark and Holly for a long weekend in Amsterdam with one critical objective: ride tandem bikes through the tulips.
Clark and Holly were both from Ohio and lived in Zurich. They went to Ohio State with Miranda and I, but neither of us really knew them until we met them for a hike in Switzerland toward the end of our first year of nomading. That hike was one of the most fun days we had in our entire 2022 and, in my opinion, one of the most fun days of our entire 3.5 years.
While we waited for the tram up the mountain, someone in the group asked “What’s your least favorite place that you’ve visited?”
What a great question! For her, it was Milan. She hated Milan. For us, at that time, it was Dublin, Ireland. Dublin has now been surpassed by Brussels.
It was in that Amsterdam bar that we brought Clark up to speed on the last year or so, which included at least an overnight in Lyon and Paris (France), Medellin and Santa Marta (Colombia), Buenos Aires and Mendoza (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Los Angeles, Honolulu, Tokyo and Kyoto and Osaka (Japan), Singapore, Koh Phangan and Koh Samui and Bangkok (Thailand), Bristol and London (England), Barcelona and Valencia and Sitges (Spain), Amsterdam, Brussels (Belgium), Mexico City, Ohio, Desenzano del Garda and Florence and Impruneta and Verona (Italy), Valencia again, Ohio, then back to Spain (Seville), then back to Ohio, then Edinburgh (Scotland).
We’d list out the cities we’d recently been on occasion in conversation, and most people would say things like “How amazing!” or “What an experience!” or “You must not have kids. You could never do this with kids.”
Without missing a beat, Clark asked “aren’t you tired?”
We were exhausted.
Naturally, that meant we should travel for another 16 months until we were sure we were ready to be done.
Clark was the first and only person to ask if we were tired. It was an Infrequently Asked Question.
Many of our favorite questions and conversations were sparked by a question that eventually made its way onto our Infrequently Asked Questions list. “Aren’t you tired?” was a great one.
We learned the hard way that many infrequently asked questions were quite important. For example: “if you have a medical incident on a flight to Argentina, where do you find a reliable doctor or dentist once you land?” to which the answer is “the US Department of State website.”
Another is “do all the grocery stores in France and Switzerland outside of Paris close on Sunday?” to which the answer is “yes.”
One more is “What’s the hardest part in becoming a digital nomad?” And the answer, which surprised most people, is only partially money. It is a combination of earning in a strong currency and working 100% remote.
But one that I didn’t to ask until recently is “Why did we start becoming digital nomads?”
Better yet, why does anyone?
The freedom and resources to sell all your stuff, work remote from any time zone, and travel the world indefinitely, unfortunately, aren’t the only prerequisites to becoming a digital nomad.
The last is that you must be deeply, deeply ready for change.
Someone who loves their life at home doesn’t become a nomad. There’s no incentive to give it all up and go. We know and love many people who traveled frequently but had home bases. They aren’t nomads; they’re frequent travelers.
Miranda and I were ready to leave Ohio. Certainly pandemic lockdown had something to do with it. Friends were buying homes and getting married, which didn’t feel right to us. We thought that we needed to shake things up.
Almost all of our nomad friends had the same feeling. The start isn’t a desire to explore the world, it’s a desire to escape the status quo. Exploring the world is a byproduct.
When non-nomads want to travel, they go “somewhere.” Our solution, similar to that of many of our nomad friends, was to go “anywhere”
When I published Announcing Miranda and I’s World Tour I wrote:
We are leaving on March 12 for Scotland. Then, we’ll do 3 days in London, then we are meeting my family in Italy. From there, her parents will join us in Spain (assuming it all works out), then we’re off to Portugal, then who knows. Maybe Turkey. Maybe Bulgaria. Maybe Thailand or Singapore or Bali. We’re spending at least a month in all locations except London. Even Spain and Portugal might change. Who knows! We are going with the flow.
“Somewhere” is reserved for a trip you must take on short notice, like a vacation after an intense work period or a breakup or a loss in the family or an overstayed visa. “Somewhere” most usually follows the phrase “I need to go…”
My dad is a pro at going “somewhere.”
A year before we started traveling, Miranda and I were given 1 week’s notice that we were to accompany my family on a trip to the Dominican Republic. My dad woke up one morning, snapped, and said he was ready to go on vacation “next week.” My mom couldn’t reach her credit card fast enough. Last year, the same thing happened, and my parents went to Clearwater, Florida.
When we’d try to convince friends to meet us traveling, or when our nomad friends had a gap in their calendar, we’d often say something like “let us know where you want to go. We can meet you anywhere.” It was true. We were once in London when two friends called asking if we would hang out with them “next month or the month after next” in Mexico City. 6 weeks later, we were eating street tacos and drinking mezcal.
Another Infrequently Asked Question is “How do you nomad for so long?”
Miranda and I had each other. We were never lonely, which is, anecdotally, the single-biggest-predictor of nomad longevity that we’ve seen.
We were endlessly willing to explore new places. For us and for the friends with whom we are closest, nomading was like a drug. The more we explored and did and the more we discovered there was to explore and do.
Our first stop was Edinburgh, Scotland. When we arrived in mid-March, 2022, we didn’t know where we would be in mid-May. As it stood, we had flights and lodging March-May 15, but come May 15, we would be homeless.
Marrakech, Morocco wasn’t on our bucket list. I didn’t even know it existed until we watched Inventing Anna, but it looked really cool. Flights were reasonable and Morocco didn’t have strict COVID restrictions, so, in March, we bought flights for May.
Marrakech was a trial-by-fire. When we arrived at our riad, we discovered that, while we were in a touristy part of town, it was full of Arab tourists speaking, almost exclusively, Arabic. Miranda’s bare shoulders in the Saharan heat stuck out like pasty white sore thumbs. We were stared at. Everyone was friendly and exceedingly helpful, but even the restaurant employees were like “Why are you here?”
Our riad was a 40-minute walk across the city from the area where the Starbucks was full of white women. In other words, we were a 40-minute walk from fitting in.
We got scammed out of $3USD once by someone claiming to be a tour guide. Our internet only worked when it the temperature was less than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, which was approximately between 3AM and 9AM local time. But we also had some of the most amazing food and experiences while we were there, like having lunch with Berbers in the Atlas mountains, riding camels, and visiting the home of Yves St. Laurent.
We cut the 3-week Moroccan trip short because we became fed up with unreliable internet, but we got the hang of it in our next stop: Portugal. By the end of that trip, we felt like we had a pretty good idea of how to nomad — at least in western Europe. Portugal was our fifth country and took us from the end of May until mid-June.
By mid-August, 2022, there was no going back. Our 2022 travel schedule from mid-August until early November — when we returned to Ohio for the first time — was phenomenal.
Split, Croatia
Bucharest, Romania
Istanbul, Seljuk, and Cappadocia, Turkey (vacation)
London (and we coincided with the Queen’s funeral)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Bern, Switzerland (including the aforementioned hiking trip)
Lyon, France
Paris, France
By the time we returned back to the States in November, 2022 after almost 8 months, our brains were completely rewired. We were hooked.
We were having drinks in Edinburgh with Ari, a friend of a different nomad friend, who asked “So how do you decide where to go next?” We told him it was based on where our friends were or, literally, by spinning a globe and going where our finger landed. When you could go anywhere, how else do you decide?
Instagram introduced us to new destinations like Cappadocia, Turkey, which we visited to ride in a hot air balloon.
Every friend we made recommended places we hadn’t considered before. Kyoto for the cherry blossoms. Amsterdam for the tulips. Mexico City for Dia de Muertos. Costa Rica for the sloths and the surf. Cape Town and Thailand and Medellin, Colombia because “they’re where all the nomads go.”
After a long enough period of travel, people stopped asking “When are you stopping?” And started asking “Where are you in the world today?”
We made tons of friends. 2022 was our year of learning how to be nomads, and 2023 was our year of making friends. By the end of January, 2023, we had made half a dozen very good nomad friends. Three months later, we made another half dozen with whom we are still very close.
We spent a month on a Koh Phangan, a small Thai island, with a group of 20 where we met several of our closest friends. The 20 of us essentially rented out an entire hotel for the month. We rented scooters, ate coconuts, went scuba diving, went hiking, and had all sorts of fun. During our last dinner together on the island, the discussion turned to “What are you all doing when we leave?”
Miranda and I were going to Bangkok for a few days before flying to the UK. Mike was flying to Chiang Mai the next morning and had flights but didn’t yet have a place to stay. Charlotte and Anna were going to a nearby island, but they didn’t yet have boat tickets or a place to stay. Sanuk was considering Bangkok, but hadn’t booked flights or a place to stay yet.
We had around 24 hours remaining together. Mind you — our friends had only 24 hours to book their next stop.
“Why don’t you all just join us in Bangkok?” I asked.
By the end of the dinner, a group of 7 of us were headed to Bangkok for a long weekend.
At dinner in Bangkok, a buddy and I created a term: the stripper pole of friendship.
Imagine your friendship with another person as a spiral staircase and you’re standing at the top. In a normal friendship, with each thing you learn about them, you take another step down. Things start superficial. You learn the foods and drinks they like, their job, or favorite sports team. Then, sometime, you’ve walked down so many stairs and had enough experiences with them that you consider each other “good friends.”
When nomading, you have the same spiral staircase, except there’s a stripper pole in the middle that you slide down. You learn first someone’s hopes and dreams and morning routines and work stressors and emotional triggers. Slowly but surely, you climb toward the top and learn their favorite color or last name.
We lived for 2 weeks in Colombia and 3 weeks in London with Eddie in 2023. I knew all about his family and career and and exes and his sister’s ex. Last year, in April 2025, he made a dinner reservation in central London for us to catch up. Miranda and I beat him to the restaurant. The hostess asked “What’s the last name?” And I realized that I didn’t know, so we couldn’t get seated until he showed up.
When I first met Charlotte, I’d heard all about her three years on a Pacific island called Vanuatu and her ambitions as an entrepreneur and her sister and brother in law and parents back in Zurich. Charlotte even taught me that, in Vanuatu, instead of saying “bra,” they say “basket for titties.”
Imagine my surprise when, two weeks into our friendship, I discovered she had over 100,000 Instagram followers. Again with the last names, I didn’t know hers until 6 months after I met her, but that wasn’t for a lack of trying. Two or three months after meeting her, I asked her what her last name was, and she jokingly said “I’m not telling.” I only learned it when the Airbnb in Milan that we organized required a photo of her passport before meeting us.
Our mission to “start making friends” was so successful that, after we truly started trying to make friends January, 2023, we met with or lived with friends at every stop until May, 2024. People wanted to join us for our Greek vacation, but we had to say no. That two-week vacation was the last time Miranda and I would have two consecutive weeks just-she-and-I for the next 10 months. Once we started making friends, we saw or lived with different friends virtually non-stop for over two years.
The last infrequently asked question is “Why are you stopping?”
Because, like I said, we are tired.
We nomaded over twice as long as we expected. Many of our nomad friends traveled for a similar amount of time. 3-4 years seems to be the sweet spot for the folks that we resonate best with. We know some people approaching year 11, so we are nowhere near the longest.
We want to have a kitchen we know and more clothes than what fit in our suitcase and a local gym that we visit for more than a month. We need a break from finding a new favorite coffee shop and new dinner restaurants and a reliable supermarket every three weeks. As crazy as it sounds, we wanted to watch Netflix more than we wanted to visit Australia, Brazil, Peru, and Jordan, all places high on our list that we haven’t yet visited.
We have other hobbies that aren’t traveling. I’ve picked up cooking. Miranda paints. We both love boxing, and we didn’t have room in our suitcases for boxing gloves, although we did rent them to do Muay Thai in Thailand.
Our businesses are intense, too. Both our businesses are bigger than they were when we started traveling, and that began to limit our options. Being more than 6 hours ahead of Eastern time started to become a pain. We have tons of places in Asia that we want to visit, but 1:00 AM meetings get old after a few weeks. A similar story is true with our top South America spots: we really want to visit Patagonia and Bolivia and the Atacama Desert, but the internet infrastructure isn’t reliable enough for us to both live and work there.
Over time, because of a combination of time zone constraints, work constraints, and our being tired, our World Tour became more like a famous musician’s world tour — primarily North America and Europe with stops in the big cities in South America and Asia.
When we jokingly said “We’ll stop when we get bored,” our assumption was that we would have more energy than the world would have things to entertain us. Our list of places to visit and things to do is longer now than it’s ever been before. In having a home base, our desire is to travel more off-the-beaten-path in the future because we can focus on work when we’re home and focus on travel when we travel, instead of trying to balance both.
There was no better time for us to be nomads, and I’m excited for next phase as frequent travelers. We have no shortage of somewheres to go to whenever we get the itch.
And we were correct that our traveling together would make-or-break our relationship. We just finished our honeymoon in Bali and Lombok, Indonesia, where our last hotel was, aptly, called “Somewhere.”
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What’s your least favorite place to visit?
Brussels, Belgium. The city is as expensive as Switzerland. It’s ugly outside of the 1km x 1km center. The trash pickup is every day but they don’t believe in dumpsters there so everyone leaves bags of trash on the sidewalk for others to step on and to get washed away in the rain. It doesn’t feel particularly safe especially around the train stations. There’s very little to do. Ghent and Bruges are amazing, though.
Which city did you visit most?
London. I visited I think 11 or 12 times. Heathrow Airport is so well connected that it was always an easy stop. I didn’t like London the first time I visited, but now I love it. I still wonder if we should have moved there instead of Florida.
How many trains did you miss because it pulled away from the station as we were running to it?
2.
What’s your shortest time in a country?
30 minutes in Slovenia driving from Trieste, Italy, to Pula, Croatia.
What’s the best food that surprised you?
Thai food.
What’s the worst food?
Irish food, when made properly, is terrible. I used to make this joke about British food, but my opinion changed after spending more time in Ireland. Britain is so multicultural now, however, that the food, especially in London, is some of the best in the world.
What’s it like in a Mexican hospital?
If you go to a nice hospital, it’s lovely. I had some sort of food poisoning / Monetzuma’s Revenge that got so bad I needed to go to the hospital for fluids. It was nice and clean. The doctors and nurses didn’t speak English, though. Thankfully, Miranda speaks Spanish, but it would’ve been massively inconvenient to use Google Translate while I couldn’t keep anything down. My overnight in the hospital + 2 bags of fluids cost me $650 USD which my travel insurance reimbursed that week.
What British words do you use now instead of the American equivalents?
“Faff” — my absolute favorite of the British words. There’s no direct American equivalent. It means “unnecessary nonsense.” Customs where you have can be a bit of a faff when you need to stand in 5 different lines and get a stamp then wait 20 minutes to get your bags then re-scan your bags before leaving the airport. “It’s too much faff” means “there’s too much overcomplicated crap going on.”
“Takeaway” instead of “to-go” (nicer word)
“Flat” instead of “apartment” (Miranda despises that I do this. I’ll say “apartment” if it’s multiple stories.)
“Metro” instead of “subway”
“Posh” instead of “nice” or “fancy” (I don’t think of them as equivalents — I think posh is a much more versatile word. Neighborhoods, restaurants, clothes, experiences, and people can all be “posh.”
“Proper” for emphasis. As in “I need a proper cup of coffee” after the cup I just drank was bad or too small.
I only call “the restroom” “the toilet” if the person doesn’t understand “restroom.” I find saying “the toilet” to be vulgar.
“Scouser” which is the term used to describe someone from Liverpool. Liverpool had a lot of interesting-looking people and fashion choices. Now, I’ll say “they look like a scouser” if someone walks by wearing way too much makeup or tiny, leopard print shorts.”
How much did it cost to repair your scooter when you drove it into a boulder in Thailand on your first day driving it?
$33 USD.
What’s the cheapest business class flight you took?
Madrid → Mexico City on Avianca. Lie-flat business class was $1000 one-way, but with Amex Platinum rewards got knocked down to $650.
Generally, business class flights seem to be fairly cheap when flying from a wealthy country to one that is less wealthy but speaks the same language. Like Spain to Mexico or Spain to Colombia or Montreal to Tunisia or Portugal to Brazil.
What’s the nicest airport you visited?
Singapore is amazing, but honestly so is Istanbul (IST).
What’s the worst airport you visited?
Kotor, Montenegro. What a disaster. It was a seemingly clean, but a disorganized mess.
How did you do haircuts?
Miranda has cut my hair since COVID, so I traveled with haircut supplies. When they broke, I used the local Amazon store to have one shipped to a locker.
Don’t you wish that America had more trains?
No, I don’t. I don’t want to take a train from Florida to California. I don’t even want to take one from Orlando to Atlanta. Trains are great when you need to get somewhere in 3 hours or less. Most US-cities are too spread out for that. This is true in Europe, too. Why would I take a 9-hour train from Paris to Milan when I could fly in like 1?
Florida’s Brightline between Orlando and Miami is a great train route. L.A. to Vegas and S.F. would be great. Connecting Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati would be great, too, but Chicago to Denver would be a nightmare. But I’m not convinced it’ll even be needed as self-driving cars become more prevalent.
What do you miss about America?
Nowhere has better waiters than America. Trying to get the check in Spain or Argentina is an exercise in patience. American waiters are nice, they don’t act like you’re a burden, and they give you water glasses that hold more than one sip of water.
What could America do better?
I have a lot of ideas that I can’t speak intelligently-enough to, but there is one idea I care a lot about.
Creating a sense of place:
Improve zoning requirements. Make more areas mixed-use and walkable.
Make apartments and condos in those areas smaller. Max 2 bedrooms except a few penthouses. Force third-places.
Make more streets in those areas narrower. I’m a huge believer in one-way streets. Crossing a 4-lane road is not what people have in mind when they think “walkable.”
Put all parking underground. Eliminate all surface lots in those areas.
Why do Americans think they’re at the center of the world?
Because, to many Americans, America is so big that you never need to leave. We have two giant oceans separating us from the rest of the world. America is huge. If you placed Seattle where London is, Miami would be in Tehran. Combine that with the fact that America, from state to state, is mostly-culturally-similar (compared to a 1 hour flight from Spain to Morocco). We get along well with our neighbors to both the north and south, and Canada, frankly is not that culturally different from the United States and mostly speaks the same language.
Economically, the United States is a powerhouse, and California, alone, is the fourth largest economy in the world. Most of the biggest companies in the world are in America. The largest stock exchange in the world (by far) is in America. America is the most successful melting pot country in history. Virtually all types of terrain and nature experiences are available between the United States and Canada.
There’s much more to this, and you could write a whole book on it. I’m not saying it’s correct. There’s a whole world outside of America, as I’ve had the luxury of seeing. I’m just explaining why it is the way that it is.
What do you regret?
Almost nothing. I would’ve spent more time in Asia and, ironically, I would’ve taken more vacations.
We loved our time in Asia. I wish we would’ve gone back and just dealt with the time zone challenge. So what if we fly across the world for just a month there? We could’ve taken a vacation for part of it and worked the other part.
Before our honeymoon, the last true vacation that Miranda and I took alone as a couple was in May, 2024. We went to Athens, Naxos, and Crete, Greece. Billie Eilish and Twenty One Pilots had both released new albums, and we were listening to them in a rental car heading to Elefonissi Beach. The beach has pink sand and some of the clearest water I’ve ever seen. It was an incredible time. We said that we would do two vacations like that per year. It took our honeymoon to do another. It’s hard to take a vacation when your laptop is right there.
An old-guy friend, David, recommended early on to me to do a cooking class everywhere we go. We didn’t, because, then, I didn’t love cooking. Now I do love cooking, and I wish we would’ve done more cooking classes.
Where did you go back to sooner than you thought you would?
Croatia. We spent 4 weeks in Zagreb and a week in Split in 2022, and we thought we would be back in 10 years. We were back 3 years later. Now we really won’t be back in Croatia for 10 years.
London. When we left London the first time, neither Miranda nor I were infatuated with it, but we ended up in London on the day of the Queen’s funeral. Seeing London that day was life changing, and from there, we knew we would be back soon. The next summer, we stayed in London for 3 weeks. It became the most reliable spot for us to recharge, and we have friends there. It’s probably my favorite city in the world.
Where did you want to go back to, but you never made it?
Bucharest, Romania. It was originally a Schengen visa run for us. We really enjoyed our week in the city, but they joined the Schengen area and then it started competing with Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, and all the other Schengen countries. It’s a great city for travelers who want somewhere off the beaten path.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What’s our favorite place?
See this post about Places to Live and Places to Visit. Overall, it depends on the criteria.
Place to Live: London
Place to Visit: Thailand
Place to Vacation (outside of the classic destinations): Costa Rica or Turkey
Place to Eat: Italy or Mexico City or Thailand or Japan or Greece
Place to Party: Berlin
How many countries did we visit?
35 countries, 73 unique cities, and over 125 stops. A stop is at least 1 night in the location. We went back to many countries multiple times to try out new cities or visit old favorites. We aren’t counting countries.
How did you decide where to go?
Visas. We did not want to overstay visas. We spent a lot of time in the UK because it’s a different visa than the Schengen visa which covers most of Europe.
Weather. We packed for 3 seasons — winter was out of the question unless it was back to Ohio.
Friends. If our friends were somewhere fun, we’d go there.
Vibes. If a place had been recommended or we had seen a spot on Instagram that looked cool or if our research pulled up a spot, we’d go there. Also if there was a cool event going on (Dia de Muertos in Mexico, for example), we’d choose that.
Time Zone. If we had intense work periods, we’d hang out in easy-to-work time zones. As our businesses grew more and more, this became more and more frequent.
Spinning the globe in Apple Maps. If you zoom out enough. on Apple Maps, it shows the whole world. We did this several times.
Do you speak English everywhere?
Pretty much. Thanks, in my opinion, to the internet, English is definitely the global language. While Miranda and I would learn common phrases in the local language, we’d use them as a formality before flipping to English. “Bonjour” or “Bonsoir” in Paris gets you a long way, as does “Merhaba” in Turkey or “Dobar dan” in Croatia.
But imagine a German visits Italy or a Turk visits Croatia. What language do they speak? English. Americans, on balance, speak fewer language than the average European, but the average person in a global city almost certainly speaks, at minimum, broken English.
That said, Miranda is conversational Spanish and I am conversational Italian. So when we are in countries where we can use our second language, we do.
How do you go to the gym?
We started getting a gym membership about two years in. It was a mistake to not do it earlier. We traveled with resistance bands and used Apple Fitness+, but the gyms are way better. Most gyms have one-month memberships.
How did you afford it?
Traveling full-time was equivalent to or cheaper than living in the States.
How did you do your cell phone plan?
We bought country-specific, data-only e-sims and turned off our US-lines. Messaging and calls were primarily through iMessage and Whatsapp. Who knows how many calls I missed to my US phone line. I don’t care.
Did you write down what you did so you can remember it?
Yes, I keep a diary. Maybe some day I’ll publish it. It’ll need a heavy copy-edit because my Mother has said some pretty out-of-pocket stuff.
What’s it like settling down and staying in one place?
It’s hard because we moved to Florida, so we’re establishing a new lifestyle and a new routine. When we traveled, we didn’t know where the supermarket was, but we had a system for finding it. In stopping traveling, we’re building all new systems for how we manage our life. Stopping traveling is as big a decision as starting to travel, as is moving to a different state. Both at the same time is very intense.
Plus, we had to buy everything. So it’s been very expensive.
For the first 6 months, I didn’t have the itch to travel. But now that I’m currently traveling, I feel like Miranda and I have snapped back into place and things are easier and more familiar.
Do you miss traveling full-time?
Between moving to Florida, setting up a house, and planning a wedding, I haven’t had much time to miss it. But yes, sometimes.
What else is on your list?
In no particular order
South & Central America
Bolivia
Patagonia
Atacama Desert, Chile
Peru
Ecuador & the Galapagos
Brazil
Middle East
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Uzbekistan
Jordan
Israel
Lebanon
UAE
Africa
Kenya
Rwanda
Egypt
Tanzania (especially a hot air balloon over the Great Migration)
Botswana (for a river Safari)
Asia
India
South Korea
Japan (non-Central)
Vietnam
Cambodia
Philippines
China (with our Chinese sister-in-law, Emily)
Oceana
Australia, but specifically exploring it by car
New Zealand
Vanuatu
Europe
Norway
Iceland
Poland
Czech Republic
Albania — we promised two Scottish guys in a comedy club that we’d go to Albania
Madeira
Skiing in Slovakia
And wherever our friends are.