Brent and Michael Are Going Places

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 | 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.

2 weeks ago | brentandmichaelaregoingplaces.com | Michael Jensen

For the audio version of this article, read by the author, go here. In many fantasy stories, there are things known as “Words of Power” — a simple magical word or phrase that can make amazing things happen. In the world of Harry Potter, the words “Wingardium Leviosa!” cause objects to levitate. And in The Lord of the Rings, the word “mennon” magically unlocks a tightly sealed door. Not everyone realizes it, but such Words of Power exist in the real world too.

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.