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9 Tips for Finding Nomad Friendly Accommodations in a New Destination

9 Tips for Finding Nomad Friendly Accommodations in a New Destination

Posted 25 August 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Planning the Trip, Stuff You Need | View Comments

9 Tips for Finding Nomad Friendly Accommodations when you don’t know the place or the language.

9 Ways to Save Money When Taking an Air Flight

9 Ways to Save Money When Taking an Air Flight

Posted 20 August 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Family Issues, Planning the Trip, Stuff You Need | View Comments

Carmen describes 9 ways to save money during your next airport experience.

Top Reasons Nomads Need Friends

Posted 14 August 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Family Issues, Planning the Trip, Zaia Nomading Year | View Comments

Top Reasons Nomads Need Friends

Hello Brazil! Arriving and Getting Settled

Posted 11 August 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, The Trips, Zaia Nomading Year | View Comments

The Zaia family continues their nomading trip to Sao Paolo.

Meet the Nomads – Family on Bikes

Meet the Nomads – Family on Bikes

Posted 02 July 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Family Issues, Meet the Nomads | View Comments

Through wanderings of Twitterland I came upon @familyonbikes and was intrigued by their bi-contintental cycling adventure with two young sons.  The Vogel family has literally been “on the road” for two years now.  Beginning in Alaska they have slowly biked their way to Costa Rica and will continue until they reach the tip of Argentina.  [...]

And We’re Off! Our Family NomadingYear Begins

Posted 30 June 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Family Issues, Planning the Trip, The Trips, Zaia Nomading Year | View Comments

By Carmen
Getting ready to take off for a year of travel means a lot of activity around the departure date!  With our departure from Austin, Texas set for June 22nd there was a lot to do in the final weeks.  Our dear friends from the kids' school hosted a going away party for us, [...]

Meet the Nomads – Brian – Around the World with No Debt!

Posted 23 June 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Meet the Nomads | View Comments

 by Carmen

I recently met Brian of No Debt World Travel through Twitter (@brianepeters).  While he's not a NuNomad in the sense of maintaining his income while on the road, I was intrigued by his experience of a round the world trip without incurring any credit card debt.  In addition, as an African American traveler, [...]

Survey Results – Money, Nomads, and Fears

Posted 19 June 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Current Affairs, Planning the Trip | View Comments

Recently the results of a survey created by Free Pursuits and Location Independent have come out and the results are really interesting. While there is a lot in the data, I’d like to focus today on the area of money fears and realities among location independent/nomadic people and those who want to be. [...]

Meet the Nomads – Nomadesigners Weathering the Economic Downturn

Posted 15 June 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Meet the Nomads | View Comments

by Carmen Bolanos
We first interviewed Greg and Yoko of Nomadesign.jp in May of 2007 living in Tokyo (see Greg and Yoko Nomadesigners in Japan). Greg is French and Yoko, Japanese. Now two years and an economic crisis later these nomads are determined to maintain their international lifestyle. By pairing the maintenance of [...]

Truth in the Nomading World – Are People Really Negotiating Out of 9-5?

Posted 11 June 2009 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Becoming a Nomad, Carmen, Current Affairs | View Comments

Recently there has been a lot of talk about lifestyle design, The 4 Hour Work Week and negotiating your job to allow you to have a nomadic lifestyle. I was just reading a Muselife blog by David Walsh on how to negotiate a remote work agreement. There are lots of good points in it. [...]

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