Below are the last 100 Earth Vagabonds travel stories and articles. We usually try publish at least twice a week.
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Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Ellen
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Last 100 articles, posts & travel stories on budget slow travel

The New Normal: New quarantine rules
Airbnb hosts share pandemic news from around the world
What Boracay looks like in pandemic days
Update on our coronavirus lockdown in the Philippines
Increased activity, chores, waiting out a pandemic
Wildfire during our lockdown in the Philippines
Former hosts check in with coronavirus news
People behind failing tourism ‘industries’
Sunday during a pandemic in the Philippines
Negros Oriental for retired budget travelers
Riding out the pandemic in the Philippines
Chocolate cake on quarantine in the Philippines
Airbnb hosts share news: Morocco, Mexico, Croatia
Pandemic sunsets and gardening as an expat
Looking at Boracay during the pandemic
Easter miracle during a pandemic
Easter services during a pandemic in the Philippines
COVID-19 waiting game for travelers
Visiting Vagabonds: Sarah’s story
Budget breakdown for March 2020
Earth Vagabonds on cleveland.com
Supply run on Philippine market day during pandemic
Extraordinary trip to Gigantes islands
Filipino ways to stay upbeat during a pandemic
Lockdown Day 3: Gardening, food, finance
Health care workers ready near Boracay for any COVID-19 patients
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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!
