Brent Hartinger

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Brent Hartinger

For the audio version of this article, read by the author, go here. In our first year of nomading, Michael and I spent part of the summer in Bansko, Bulgaria — a winter ski town that was fast becoming a year-round destination for expats and nomads. On Saturday afternoons, the local ski resort opened the chairlifts to give people access to the alpine hiking trails, and one day, Michael and I joined a group of fifteen or so nomads for one of these excursions.

3 weeks ago | brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Michael Jensen |Brent Hartinger

This is a regular column where we answer your travel-related questions. If you ask nicely, we might even answer your non-travel-related ones too!Have a question for a future column? Ask it here. One of the co-founders of Airbnb is working with Elon Musk's DOGE team. Do you agree Airbnb should be boycotted? — HA lot of people have sent us messages like this. As a result, I did what I always do on issues like this: I researched it.