If you look at my last blog entry you’ll see that it’s been a week since I’ve written. I’ve learned a lesson this week about the discipline that it takes to be a blue suit nomad. Actually, I was just reminded of the lesson I’ve learned many times in the past. Last week we were [...]
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Since I’ve started this blog I’ve been looking at other sites on this topic of traveling and working. Usually you see some sort of picture of a person with a laptop on a beautiful beach, pina colada sitting next to the laptop. I think most of us envision this kind of scene when we’re sitting [...]
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So – what does it take to break free from your office and start seeing the world? I see it as three main things – desire, creativity, and organization. First, working while traveling is not an easy thing to pull off so your desire to do it must be great or you will lose interest [...]
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For some reason when I’m preparing to travel, my usually scattered self turns into an organizational fiend. I’m a big fan of David Allen’s "Getting Things Done" (I know – along with everyone else and his brother) so I turned to his web site and found a simple little trick for traveling with batteries. David [...]
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During our adventure this summer we plan to spend a few nights in Paris on our way from the Hague to southern France. Since my husband can’t get enough time off work to do the whole trip (government jobs in Texas aren’t yet hip to the Nomad thing) he will fly to Paris and meet [...]
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The other day I came across a new blog on PCMag.com called the Well Connected Traveler. My first reaction was of amazement followed closely by complete intimidation. Here is a group of people (mostly men if not all men) who are serious professional world travelers and serious techies. They discuss how to function in the [...]
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This was the week that my new Zonetick Desktop Time Zone Clock (if you want one, look on the left side bar) was to be put to the test. We sprang forward over the weekend. Not only that, but Australia fell back as they begin to go into winter. That is important to me because [...]
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This weekend’s trip to the mailbox revealed an exciting discovery. Our passports had arrived! All 5 of them came at once in neat priority mail cardboard envelopes making our government services suddenly appear scarily efficient. For me, this is the 3rd passport I’ve had. It was fascinating to see the difference in this passport compared [...]
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After my frightening Skype experience this week I went on-line to see what else is out there for making international calls. As so often happens when you do a web search, I found an overwhelming number of options. Choices range from calling cards, to GPS phones with SIM cards, to Call Back services and 800 [...]
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As you may know, I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m going to continue doing my coaching calls with clients while I’m traveling in Europe. Of course, Skype is the first thing everyone mentions when I ask about this issue. So I figured, "Ok, I’m not going to worry too much about this, Skype [...]
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