Ep 103: Travel Blogging Pioneer Nora Dunn - The Professional Hobo
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Nora Dunn is one of the original Pioneers of travel blogging going back to 2006, and has blazed a trail for literally thousands of others she’s inspired through the years.
She makes her living as a freelance writer and blogger, and also teaches people how to become a digital nomad.
Nora is truly one of the original modern nomads who has lived and traveled in just about every way you can imagine.
Stay emPowered,
Beck
“I never tended to choose my destinations. I allowed my destinations to choose me.”
Show Notes:
- What Nora was doing way back when she decided to go down this path to full time travel, before digital nomad was even a thing (1:30)
- How she learned to get free accomodation so she could travel the world on a limited and fixed budget and saved over a hundred thousand dollars in a year (3:50)
- The first of her five biggest ways to save and get free travel and accomodation in today’s digital nomad world (6:19)
- The mindset you need to adopt to get yourself out in the world and find the opportunities you need to be open to for a fluid life of travel (13:13)
- How to avoid the most tragic trips people take so regularly (15:30)
- Home bases and why they are an invaluable tool for travelers (20:00)
- The second strategy for living around the world (which you’ve heard before here on the Podcast) (25:00)
- An entire world of people out there getting accommodations that most digital nomads don’t even know about (29:17)
“You will never know everything you need to know before you go. And if you did, it’s almost not worth going.”
Links:
Nora’s book on How to Get Free Accommodation Around The World:
Nora’s book Working on the Road: The Unconventional Guide to Full-Time Freedom:
“Dear Nora” column:
Dear Nora Archives - CreditWalk.ca
Dear Nora: Travel Splurges - Are They Worthwhile?
www.creditwalk.ca
Column at GO Banking Rates #smartmoneysquad:
Important information about filing taxes as a digital nomad:
“Travel is certainly an exercise in facing fears… Experience is the only way through that.”
Favorite Book:
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
