Writer. Expat. Foodie.
When we lived in the United States, it was easier because Greg belonged to a gym and I had some equipment at home. That all changed when we sold it all to move around the world.
My daughter has officially become a digital nomad kid. She started a blog! I am proud and excited for her, because she wanted to do this on her own.
I’m not surprised. It’s primarily what she sees, because we all spend so much time together. I’m always writing, her dad is always writing (or illustrating our children’s book series). Oftentimes while we are housesitting our way around the world, we all do our work in the same room. For example, while I type this in Southampton, England, we’re all set up in the kitchen. Greg is at the kitchen table with his laptop and drawing tablet. Kamea and I sit at the bar on bar stools. She’s privy to all of our business conversations and she actually chimes in with suggestions often.
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As a world traveling family (specifically, a digital nomad family), we don’t have a lot of “stuff” and we’ve been moving around at a fairly speedy clip. I aim for our future (2019) to slow-travel more. I’d like to land in a country and stay for 2 to 3 months before moving. But that doesn’t change the fact that we don’t carry a lot of things.
We can’t bring bins of Lego blocks or multiple dolls and stuffed animals. She doesn’t have a lot of toys. Close to none pretty much. However, she keeps herself busy.
She survives. Heck, I like to think she thrives. We do the best we can so that she doesn’t feel like she’s missing out on things.
Here’s what my digital nomad kid does for entertainment as she travels the world. The list applies to things she’s doing where we “live.” (That’s housesitting or renting an apartment via Air BnB.) It does not include the times she meets kids in the local neighborhood or parks or camps she takes. Those things happen regularly, too, but not always on a day-to-day basis. Below is what is daily.
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We’re moving around the United Kingdom and getting intimate with it. Having spent so many weeks here, in fact about 4 months (in total) this year, we’re really getting to know it.
One of our favorite places to visit was Cardiff, Wales.
We continued our journey of housesitting our way around the world (<– that’s a link to the book we wrote about housesitting). This means we’re living in “free” accommodations in exchange for the caring of someone’s house (and usually animals).
I mentioned in the last post how we met with someone I’d met playing Words with Friends (for years!). That was fun.
For the main part of the Cardiff visit, however, we did a housesit for a lovely family who had a sweet dog to care for.
That’s one of the benefits of housesitting while traveling. We’re not cramped in a small apartment rental or hotel room. We find ourselves in lovely, spacious homes complete with great wifi, comfy couches, and clean beds.
And fun appliances for making coffee!
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We’re housesitting our way around Europe and the United Kingdom this year. It’s been an amazing journey so far, being able to travel so much and housesitting makes that possible. I mean, think about it, staying in great houses, oftentimes having access to a car or living in places with easy public transport, meeting amazing people, living like locals.
Did you ever think about traveling to France, and staying a short train ride from Paris, but you thought going to France was too expensive? Well, it’s not! With housesitting and searching for cheap airline tickets (I like using the app by Kiwi.com), you can really travel the world with your family and not break the bank.
We just did it ourselves (using Nomador housesitting website for this particular housesit in France).
Housesitting has made our travel dreams come true and we’ve done it both in the United States and abroad. It really is a phenomenal way to travel.
Check out our book on housesitting so you can learn how to do this, too. 
This city is about a 20-minute train ride west of Paris. I had to pinch myself on occasion to realize how close we were to Paris and that we stayed in such a great apartment. Even though we weren’t paying in the financial sense, we did have a job to do: care for the apartment and cats. That’s actually fun though!
Traveling the world (or anywhere in the USA) is great with housesitting when you have kids because the animals make great playmates.
Ermont, France was one of our favorite housesits. The homeowners were so amazing (and now they’re our friends who we can visit anytime!). The animals we cared for were easy going, cool cats.
The apartment was perfect, and there was a bakery right downstairs! I always got a kick out of seeing people routinely walking on the sidewalks carrying their daily baguette. That’s a bit of the cultural immersion I’m seeking while traveling the world.
We also had a most amazing butcher just down the street. Again, all walkable. This butcher sold locally sourced meat and it was the most delicious beef I’d ever had. I splurged a few times because my body was screaming for beef.
We’re meeting so many great people, and traveling is taken to another level when housesitting. We can now say that in the past 6 months we’ve become friends with 10 new families. We keep in touch via email and it’s so neat to have expanded our network like this.
If you’re curious about housesitting or traveling the world, reach out to me via twitter or email. I’d love to help if you have any questions.
We’re living in the UK for the next couple of months for our world travels. That means one thing: I can eat a frugal carnivore diet!
I wrote a book on why I like eating a carnivore diet and how to get started doing it. It’s called The Carnivore Diet Handbook.
Today, I’m sharing how I’ve been eating every day for the past weeks on a carnivore diet.
You see, I’ve gone on-and-off the carnivore diet a couple of times since January, when I started this seemingly weird diet. Travel and meat costs in other countries determines it. But, when I can, I opt for carnivore.
I plan on eating this way going forward, until we’re back in France housesitting (this means we’re traveling the world without paying for accommodations! – I wrote a book about that, too! Check it out here!). We will be in France in September.
I won’t eat as much meat in France, because it’s not frugal – dammit. But, I have some new things planned to help me eat more carnivore-ish while there. Stay tuned to see if my experiments work.
I save so much time with this simple way of eating. I have more energy. I’m not constantly planning what to eat or looking at recipes on Pinterest at night when I should be sleeping.
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