Below are the last 100 Earth Vagabonds travel stories and articles. We usually try publish at least twice a week.
We are currently in East Asia.
Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Ellen
To find a destination we’ve been to, go to our Budget Slow Travel Destinations page. Tap on a country’s name to see everything we wrote while in that country. Or search our site.
Last 100 articles, posts & travel stories on budget slow travel

Bangkok to Hua Hin by bus in COVID era
Budget slow travel cost in Bangkok 2022
Kortn’s Crib: Bangkok edition
Review: GuruWalk Bangkok free walking tour
Our first COVID-era trip
Money shock in Bangkok
Kortan’s cuisine: Easter brunch in Bangkok
So many tears
Earth Vagabonds restart slow travel lifestyle
Earth Vagabonds to leave the Philippines
The adorable young boy with a pellet in his ear
Travel during COVID: 3 budget tips
Broken toe on Boracay & the Cleveland connection
Norman’s grave
Foreign tourism opens in Philippines
Budget vacation to Boracay Island
Boracay Island in the Philippines
How to hand wash clothes, sheets
The boy on the beach
What progressive eyeglasses cost in the Philippines
2021: A final roundup from the Philippines
Did these tourism and travel predictions come true?
What’s happening on Boracay during Omicron phase
WHO COVID vaccination certificate in the Philippines
Seasonal celebrations, a full social calendar, another special year
Boosters in the Philippines
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We are Ellen and Theo (Ellie & Tedly) – and we are experts at budget slow travel in early retirement. We are “Earth Vagabonds.”
Vagabond: (n) A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. (adj) Having no settled home.
Instead of retiring and relocating to one specific place as many retirees do, we wander the planet. Full-time since 2015! It’s a travel lifestyle for us – we are way different than tourists. You could say we are on a never-ending holiday!
We retired early to travel the world while we still were young enough — and healthy enough — to easily do it.
But our methods shared on this site can also apply to people of traditional retirement age. After all – we all have a budget to stick to!
There are more than 750 pages on this site. We share a lot about how to live the budget slow travel lifestyle in early retirement, and we hope you find some of it useful.
Our mantra: Life is Now.
We hope to see you out here!
