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5 days ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger
For the audio version of this article, read by the author, go here. Michael and I are currently living in San Miguel de Allende, a charming colonial-era town in central Mexico that’s become a bustling tourist hub and thriving center for the arts. We’ve rented a big, fabulous house, we’ve made lots of new friends, and we’re generally having a fantastic time. And every day, we’re surrounded by signs of extreme poverty.
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1 week ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Thanks to smartphones and social media, attention spans are in free fall, and I’m worried about the consequences for our society if no one can focus on anything longer than ten seconds. I’ve started drinking peppermint tea because I heard it was good for a person’s digestion, and so far, it seems to be working. Oh, sorry — sometimes I worry about my attention span too. We all have so much to worry about these days: climate change, ultra-processed food, fascism, microplastics, A.I., and on and on.
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1 week ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger
I have always loved hot springs and spas. For me, there is nothing better than sinking into a pool of hot water. The more attractive or interesting the surroundings, the better it is. As Michael and I have traveled the world as nomads these last eight years, I have dragged him to every little puddle of warm water I can find. But he’s always been a good sport, and we’ve ended up having some wonderful adventures in some absolutely fantastic settings.
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2 weeks ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger
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2 weeks ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger
For the audio version of this article, read by the author, go here. I promise this isn’t yet another article saying how it costs, like, three dollars to eat out while traveling the world as a digital nomad. Well, it’s not only that. A week ago, Michael wrote about how “shopping” is often very different outside of America. Eating out in restaurants is very different too. Yes, I’m making generalizations.
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3 weeks ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Living in Istanbul a few summers ago, my husband Michael and I knew we wanted to visit a Turkish hammam. Cleanliness is an important part of Türkiye’s Islamic culture, and we wanted to experience the famous hammam ritual for ourselves. But we’d gotten to know one of the neighbors in our apartment building, a local man named Duman, and when I told him of our plans, he said, “You must not go to one of the tourist hammams. You must come with me to my hammam back in the neighborhood where I grew up.
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3 weeks ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
The house that my husband Michael and I are renting in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, is so big that when we arrived, we were warned that there was an entire West Wing that we were not to enter under any circumstances. Also, the servants have all been transformed into furniture, and our host is a hideous beast. Our rental’s “West Wing,” where we’re not allowed to go.
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1 month ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger
Yet another edition of our unusual travel hacks!For other travel hack columns, go to Part Thirteen and Part Fourteen and Part Fifteen and Part Sixteen and Part Seventeen and Part Eighteen and Part Nineteen and Part Twenty and Part Twenty-One and Part Twenty-Two and Part Twenty-Three and Part Twenty-Four and Part Twenty-Five. Here are the latest hacks:Need to charge your phone fast? Put it in airplane mode to disable cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth — all big power drains.
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1 month ago | 
brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Michael Jensen |Brent Hartinger
Donald Trump’s first election as President of the United States in 2016 wasn’t the only reason we decided to leave America and become digital nomads. We’d always talked about doing long-term travel “eventually,” and we’d also always disliked certain aspects of American life: the car culture, the consumerism, and what seemed to us like too much jingoism. But that election did push us over the edge. Within months, we’d sold our house and were making arrangements to indefinitely travel the world.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
My husband Michael and I have been digital nomads for eight years. We left the United States at the end of 2017, and except for Covid — when we rented an apartment for almost a year — we've never stayed in any one place for more than three months. People often ask us: What do you do about mail? Don't you need a permanent mailing address? The answer is an emphatic yes. On one hand, it’s been surprisingly easy to move most of our affairs into the cloud. But you can't move everything into the cloud.
