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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.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Brent and Michael Are Going Places and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this story. Pricing and availability subject to change. Rugged coasts, strange canyons, and lush rainforests and jungles — with lots of pictures. Some people are foodies, and some are beach bums. My husband Brent and I are hikers. Sometimes we’re also foodies and beach bums — and sometimes bikers too. But our favorite thing in the world is simply walking.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
The best public toilet I’ve ever visited may have been the one at the Blue Temple in Chiang Rai, Thailand. You enter through a swirling cloud of mist, past lush landscaping. But the foliage continues inside the toilet area, with openings peeking out into dense vegetation, bright skylights overhead, and even actual living trees growing between the urinals — everything befitting the restroom’s “forest primeval” theme. Yes, in Thailand, restrooms often have themes.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Why do you disturb my slumber, foolish mortal? Have you no respect for ancient beings such as myself? You truly do not know who I am? I am the Dragon of Yaowarat! Guardian of secrets, keeper of stories, and silent witness to centuries of transformation. I see you’ve come to ask me to guide you through Bangkok's Chinatown — the colorful, chaotic, beating heart of Chinese Thailand.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Since becoming digital nomads at the end of 2017, my husband Brent and I have stayed in all kinds of accommodations. Many have been excellent — others not so much. Here are some of the absolute worst!The apartment with the Elevator of Death in Tbilisi, GeorgiaBrent and I had only been nomading two years when we arrived at our apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the summer of 2019.
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
A few months ago, our American friend Steve booked a summer trip to South Africa. But since then, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump — spurred on by South African Trump-ally Elon Musk — has suspended all foreign aid to the country and forcefully expelled the South African ambassador to the U.S.As a result, South Africa is rife with anti-American resentment, and now Steve wonders: will the country retaliate against American tourists?
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1 month ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
According to the Washington Post, parties are dead. When people do show up at social gatherings, things rarely take off anyway — too many folks sitting to one side staring at their phones. The Wall Street Journal adds that it’s now socially acceptable — even something to brag about on social media — to cancel your plans with other people at the last second. Self-care and all that.
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2 months ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
When it comes to my electronic devices, I’ve had a difficult few weeks. I spent hours trying to find out why I suddenly couldn’t play my iTunes computer content on a TV — only to finally reach an actual customer service person who, after an hour or so, eventually discovered that this was simply iTunes’ new “anti-piracy” policy. Google “updated” my Pixel phone, which caused my battery to hold almost no charge.
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2 months ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
Every winter, humpback whales make a 3,000-mile journey from the freezing waters of the Arctic, where they feed on krill all summer long, to warmer waters down south to mate and calve. Up to a thousand of those whales end up in Banderas Bay, off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Which is where my husband Brent and I are living right now. For the last two months, we have been watching those whales jump and frolic from the balcony of our villa. AdvertisementAnd I’m an amateur photographer.
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2 months ago | 
creators.yahoo.com | Brent Hartinger |Michael Jensen
My husband Michael and I have traveled the world for eight years as digital nomads, and we’ve now stayed in more than fifty different Airbnb units. Virtually all of them were booked in advance of arrival. We’ve stayed in many fantastic units but also a fair number of terrible ones — so many, in fact, that we now try very hard to avoid the bad ones.
