“How the heck do you do it, Mitch?”
“Are you rich or something?”
“I’d love to do what you do…but I could never afford it.”
When I was traveling around the world, I got messages like this all the time from old friends I’d lost touch with.
They saw my Instagram pictures and just couldn’t wrap their minds around how it was possible.
How can someone travel for 3 months, 6 months, or even 1 year without running out of money (or working a “normal” job)?
It’s actually not as hard as you think.
Mitch is your typical nomadic backpacker. Or at least, he was. But after stopping in Colombia to take "one week" of salsa lessons, his life took a sharp left turn. He met a cute Colombian girl in dance class, fell in love, and got married. Over half a decade has passed since he left his career to travel the world as a digital nomad, and he's never looked back.
Nowadays, he’s the blogger behind Project Untethered—where he runs an