Why We Keep a Homebase for our Slow Travel Lifestyle

Our lifestyle uses borrowed ideas from Canadian Snowbirds, digital nomads, and retirement slow travelers. We travel the world, spending months at a time in different countries. But we also keep a home base in British Columbia, Canada that we return to each year. This is why we’ve chosen to keep a home base instead of traveling full time.

How to Start a Life of Slow Travel: Becoming a Retirement Slow Traveler or Digital Nomad

We see a lot of questions about how to get started slow traveling. And there isn't a single answer that will work for everyone. It really depends on your goals, income, and desired lifestyle.
What is slow travel? To us, it means staying in the places we visit for at least a few weeks, and usually a month or longer before moving on to the next place. Digital nomads, backpackers, and retirees can all be considered slow travelers, depending on how they move around. So how do you get started as a slow traveler?
If you already know exactly what you want to do, then just go for it. But if you're watching this video, it might be because you're not sure of a few things. Maybe you're thinking about travel during your retirement, or maybe you want to be a digital nomad, but you're still figuring things out. So let's talk about how to start a life of slow travel here.

Is Becoming an Expat Worth It or Should we Stick to Slow Travel?

Why don't we just move here? That's the question we ask ourselves whenever we travel to an amazing new city. Maybe it's worth it for great weather, better health care, or a lower cost of living. But not everything is as picture perfect as it seems on the surface. And becoming an expat in a new country takes a lot of work. So how does living as an expat compare to slow traveling around the world? And why do we keep choose slow travel instead? Find out more here.

How We Set Up Our Slow, Long-Term Travel Plans and Goals

Our slow, long-term travel lifestyle takes continuous planning. Once we think we have everything set up, something happens to change our plans. But as events outside our control keep shifting, we update our plans to keep us visiting new places. This video is all about how we lay out our year with long-term travel, stay flexible, and keep a balance with our other goals.

Why We Chose Slow Long-Term Travel Instead of a Permanent Expat Move

When we first started our early retirement, we thought we wanted to travel full-time and maybe even take up residence in a new country as expats. But as we thought about it more, we realized that's not exactly what we wanted. We still wanted to travel long-term, but we didn't want to give up our residency in our home country. For all about how we balance our long-term travels while maintaining our home country residency in Canada, read the full blog post.

Full-Time Travel: What Do We Do All Day? What's the Difference Between Vacation and Long-Term Travel

Going on a vacation is so much different than traveling the world full-time. Vacations are all about relaxation and seeing the sites. Long-term travel is about that, much so much more too! So when we're traveling the world full-time, what do we do all day when we're not doing tourist-type activities?

How to Work Remotely While Traveling Abroad or on a Road Trip in a Camper

Being able to work remotely has given us so many travel options. With a bit of work flexibility and a good internet connection, we're able to work from almost anywhere in the world. We've been able to work remotely everywhere from apartments in Europe to our Honda Pilot SUV Tiny Camper on road trips in Yukon and Alaska. Not every place has the same internet access so some flexibility and willingness to change travel plans to accommodate meetings and deadlines is essential.