My Transition to Becoming a Digital Nomad — Living a Life as a Sailing Software Developer ⛵ 👩‍💻

Marte Løge
Curious
Published in
12 min readApr 17, 2020

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A traveling nomad living her dream on her sailboat “Hello World” sailing around the world. Is it as charming as it might sound? I used to live in Norway working as a software developer living in my apartment in Oslo — now my new address is “wherever the wind will take me” 🌊 and my new office is “wherever good coffee and wifi exist” ☕️ I want to share my journey and share my key learnings from living as a digital nomad so far.

Sunset — it’s where the magic happens

The idea of living in a sailboat sailing around the world, propelled by the wind, sounds like music in my ears. Enjoying every sunset and sundowner 🌅 Taking my morning coffee looking at the crystal clear water with a living aquarium behind my home ☕️ 🐠 Sounds tempting? Like everything in life, nothing comes for free. You have to work for it! Living on a boat is a lot of joy but is also frustrating at times. What made me swap the safe life on land with a rough life at sea playing by the rules of mother earth? 🌎

Today, my boyfriend and I are living the dream as digital nomads on our sailboat “Hello World” in the Caribbean 🌴

Where it all started⛵️

A good story always starts with a clean sheet of paper — we sold everything we owned and bought a sailboat. But why?

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Marte Løge
Curious

Sailing software developer living on “ SY Hello World” in the Caribbean. Love programming, sailing, cats, and flowers.