SydneyJason

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For the retired nomads lurking: why/how did you stop traveling? Survey results from yesterday (of 10 respondents):

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After an afternoon thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains, the sky opened up and the warm road turned misty for a few minutes. Little person for sizing and context…

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Packing for vacation, we used to take so much stuff; giant suitcases with all the outfits, shoes, etc. But as nomads, we’re now “carry on only” and can go on endlessly with just a few things. Our basics: 5 shirts, 2 pairs of shorts, a pair of pants, socks/undies for 5 days, a swimsuit, a sweater, running shoes, sandals, 2 days of workout clothes, and a “date night” outfit. What’s great about this size is that we can easily carry it. And if something is worn, we just replace it with a new one. Regionally, we’ll add more depending on the climate (ie we bought warm weather clothes in Patagonia and then donated it when we left)

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2018 was a good vintage year to be a crypto VC: https://x.com/dunleavy89/status/1814042435967668687

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Sometimes it's nice to have a home base. Whether it's where your family lives or where you used to live, it can be very grounding. Great to catch up with the important people in your life, take care of maintenance tasks, re-load your gear, etc. For us, time at home base is great, but we're still not yet done with traveling, so the home base has less gravitational pull than it used to.

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The startup accelerator Techstars has a saying of "Give First" when it comes to networking within the community: give freely of your time to build goodwill in the network, and that usually comes around many fold in the future. When we started traveling, I really focused on the concept of "Family First": how can I make sure that my life priorities *actually* line up with how I spend my time? Using Family First as my guide has paid off many times so far, and I'm grateful to be able to do it.

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If a country has more people that "lean in" to interact with us, it usually makes the top of our list as a place we’d like to return. Often those places also have delicious food cultures as well. And it seems that most great food cultures are built around amazing markets. I wonder if those markets somehow helped to make people friendlier…

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Ah fuck it Dude. Let’s go bowling

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There are certainly price arbitrage opportunities across the world. We run an Airbnb in Colorado, and sometimes one night of rent can pay for a week in other countries. For example, we had a ridiculously cheap month in Malaysia in April 2020 (less than 27% of our previous suburban Denver lifestyle). Our most expensive month was the first month of our travels (mainly in the Nordics and St. Petersburg).

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Good food and good beer @checkin

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The rolling 90 day bid-to-ask ratio for pre-public, VC-backed company shares *on secondary markets*. tl;dr: On secondary markets, AI company shares are pricier than non-AI companies. And secondary markets are not bubbly...

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Sometimes a week in a new country isn’t enough. Other times it’s plenty. In our current phase of travel, it's like we sample a country and are constantly building a list of places we’d like to spend more time. Over the last 13 months, we visited 15 countries in Latin America. I would definitely enjoy spending more time in Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. What are your favorite Latin American countries?

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To do work and school while on the road, we had to slow down. During a typical week, we'll spend the whole week doing half-days of work and half-days out exploring. Obviously we flex the time when work/school demands it or we're in a "bucket list" destination. But we take very few days off; that's ok for us since we genuinely enjoy our lifestyle (no more dreading Mondays!)

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Given the “tyranny of choice”, how do we decide where to go next? Mostly we do regional travel in parts of the world that are new to us. So we look at interesting places close by. For longer distances, we explore prices between big hub airports. A cheap hub connection can set us on a new regional path for several months or even longer.

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We do a lot of regional travel. We'll get cheap flights to one part of the world and then explore the neighboring areas & countries by bus, boat, train and low cost airlines.

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Can anyone recommend a good day hike (10+ miles) that is not a 14er (because they’re too crowded…13ers are great!) and around either Winter Park, Breck, Vail or Leadville areas?

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Sunrise at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

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We are a fairly frugal family to begin with and being nomadic is no different. We had to go through a mindset shift from vacation mode to being nomadic -> nomadic life is not an endless vacation. When you're on vacation from "normal life", you often try to do everything in a place. We started out with this vacation mindset, but after a few weeks and months, it was exhausting (and financially unsustainable). Nomadic life is definitely more like "normal life", it's just that we don't have a "normal" home in one place.

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