Last October, I gave up my expensive San Francisco apartment, gave away the few big things I did own, and flew to Amsterdam (through Iceland ☃️) with all my worldly possessions in two suitcases and a backpack. Since then, I’ve been to 12 countries and many more cities working from my 13” MacBook Pro. Being a digital nomad has always been my dream, but I was not nearly prepared for the reality of it. Learn what travel bloggers will not tell you about what it’s really like to be a digital nomad.

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4. – R O F L P O T T S
“For me, the experience of travel is not only what I'm seeing but also
what I have chosen to leave behind, even for a short time, and the
perspective I grain from doing that”

7. 🏡 ☕ ⛴ 🍕 🚐 🏨 ✈

8. T H E D R E A M

10. – T H E A R T O F T R AV E L
“A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself
apparent: I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.”

12. – B E H E R E N O W
“What is happening to you is nothing less than death and rebirth.
What is dying is the entire way in which you understood “who you
are” and “how it all is.” What is being reborn is the child of the Spirit
for whom things all are new.”

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😎
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14. • Loneliness 😢
• Sensory Overload 👀
• Language/Culture barrier 🤐
• Productivity 📉

15. L O N E L I N E S S 😢

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23. – T H E A R T O F T R AV E L
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the
world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper
our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”

24. S E N S O RY O V E R L O A D 👀

25. – VA G A B O N D I N G : A N U N C O M M O N G U I D E T O T H E A R T O F L O N G - T E R M W O R L D
T R AV E L
“transition into travel can be compared to childhood: Everything you
see is new and emotionally affecting, basic tasks like eating and
sleeping take on a heightened significance, and entertainment can
be found in the simplest curiosities and novelties.”

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34. – B E H E R E N O W
“there are stages at which you feel pulled in to inner work and all you
seek is a quiet place to meditate and to get on with it. Then there are
times when you turn outward and seek to be involved in the market
place.”

35. L A N G U A G E / C U LT U R E B A R R I E R 🤐

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43. 😭 😂

44. – 1 Q 8 4
“Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and
nothing more.”

45. P R O D U C T I V I T Y 📉

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48. – T H E S E C O N D B O O K O F T H E TA O
“Concentration, he found, was not a matter of applying effort; it was
a way of eliminating the unnecessary.”

53. – J I M R O H N
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

55. 😢 -> 👯
👀 -> 💆
🤐 -> 😂
📉 -> 📈
😱 😎

56. – B E H E R E N O W
“You must live before you can die.
But you must die before you can live.”