How I am Planning for Long-term Travel

My actual day-to-day itinerary while traveling isn't structured far in advance, but I often get carried away with research and brainstorming future trips months in advance. Many a night are spent watching videos and reading about interesting destinations. They say that once you start travelling, your list of places to see only gets longer, not shorter.

I noticed this first-hand in 2017, when upon recommendation of a friend that I met in a hostel, I decided to visit Indonesia. This was never in my plan, and I am still happy that I made that decision.

Nowadays, I have learned alot from being on the road and travelling long-term. It takes much less time for me to get used to a new country. I have tools like offline maps on my phone (I recommend the app Magic Earth — based on OpenMaps for Android) to keep me from getting lost.

Within days of arriving in a new country, I am also set up with a local SIM. This provides me a disposable Whatsapp number for contacting businesses and new friends, and more importantly, data to stay connected like the locals. As I work remotely, being online is more important for my laptop, but it's nice to reference. I do aim to spend less time on my phone when possible, though, which is why I sometimes leave it at home.

I am more conscious of my largest expenses, which are flights, accommodation, and meals. Opting for ground transportation saves a lot, particularly if you're open to biking or hitchhiking. I try to spread flights out when necessary, and stay in countries for longer. Not only does this mean I'm not in airports all the time, but I can sometimes save on accommodation by booking a room for weeks or a month at a time.

Meals are definitely my weakness. Food is one of the primary reasons that motivate me to travel, and so I eat out most of the time. I can cook fairly well, but when the choice is either a hot dish I've never had, or trying to make use of a hostel kitchen, I'll save the mess and just go out. It does help that most of the restaurants I frequent are affordable.

Making The Nudge make sense long-term is to develop sustainable work. This means that I combine my talents in video, photography, and writing, not only to produce content that fans want to pay for on a reoccuring basis, but also to appeal to the travel niche, and make deals with businesses and other creators, to make or edit content on their behalf. If I can figure this big question out, I could very well be doing this a year and a half from now, with no shortage of places to see.

The biggest obstacles are making financial sense of such a long-term endeavour, and also finding the right balance of movement and stationing myself in various cities around the world to have a somewhat stress-free and full lifestyle.

These are just some of the logistical scenarios that I'm always thinking about. If you are interested in content based around the idea of "Liberty, through crypto and travel", please watch my videos and subscribe on Odysee,
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