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
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Last 100 articles, posts & travel stories on budget slow travel
Earth Vagabonds slow travel pause hits 1 year
Vaccinations, Boracay, & embassy bottle openers
Swab tests nixed by Philippine feds, LGUs can still require
We all will die and Life is Now
Updates from pandemic paradise in the Philippines
Warship appears near Boracay during pandemic
COVID-19 news from Boracay
COVID-19 creeps closer to our pandemic paradise bunker
Spending cuts, new expenses: Updates on our life in pandemic paradise
Season’s Greetings!
Early Christmas for Ati children in Malay, Philippines
Special Santa visit before Christmas 2020
Slow travel update from the Philippines during the pandemic
A good thing happened in 2020 – we got to know the Ati indigenous tribe in the Philippines
Asian ecommerce experience: An American uses Shopee
Updates: QR codes, Santa, Ati, life in the Philippines during a pandemic
Theo celebrates 5 years of early retirement as a slow traveler
New requirement for local visitors to Boracay: QR code
Surprise tropical gift: Amihan in the Visayas
Thanksgiving dinner and holiday shopping trip
Theo studies hydraulic engineering (really!)
Where in the world can we go right now?
Milo the mangy mutt messed up by mongrels
1 year in the Philippines (and other numbers)
Budget breakdown: October 2020 in the Philippines
Mom Diane made it home — Philippines to JFK!
Older – still useful – Earth Vagabonds blog posts
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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!
