If you have a remote-friendly job how to get buy-in from your employer : strategy, tactics, ammo from others who have excelled

If not are you willing to change jobs to make it happen? Use your savings to travel?

Options for getting out of your lease (early termination penalty, sublet, subrogation)

Getting free of other common encumbrances

Sorting out your passport and visa situation

Obtaining traveler’s insurance and canceling other forms of domestic insurance

Storing and/or selling your possessions and vehicle

Handling your snail mail

Reducing paper footprint with bills and billing

Securing a travel-friendly ATM/debit card

Solving your telephony needs

Setting up proper payments apps

Getting set up with a VPN service

Locking down your computer with timed screen lock and mouse corners for quickly locking screen

Enabling full disk encryption 

Enabling a firewall  

Migrating all your sensitive passwords and accounts into a password manager

Configuring the most appropriate backup process for your situation

Setting up 2-factor authentication on any important accounts 

Implementing power and connectivity redundancy if your job demands it 

Enabling passcode, iCloud backup, wifi calling

Introduction to travel programs and their mechanics

Overview of Instagram, Snapchat, Blog, Vlogging, 1sec/Day app 

Offline journaling (TurboScan)

Sending physical postcards via the TouchNote app

Enabling Google Timeline, Swarm app, Polar Steps for tracking your activities over time

Syndicating your travel blog via NomadBloggers.com

Ensuring proper nutrition on the road

Options for staying fit while traveling

Introduction to personal safety basics (situational awareness, distance, de-escalation, basic combatives)

iSOS registration & usage

Making yourself traceable by trusted friends & family using Tiles and iPhone family sharing

Scouting: Travel blogs, take the lead, be inclusive. Slack polls & emojis

Discovery: blogs and travel sites

Planning: Rome2Rio, Evernote w travel deets 

Booking: flight apps, BlaBlaCar, Couchsurfing, Airbnb (VRBO), group buying power

Executing: splitwise, WA temp groups, share live location)

importance of Exit Confirmation

When a Chilean airport agent has it out for you (exit conf, plane ticket, printed, yellow fever card, 2fa for public terminals) 

Sleeping in an ATM booth (accoms in advance, HotelTonight for last minute emergencies, AirBnb support) 

Sales calls in hail storms at Cliffs of Moher (connectivity redundancy, calendly quarantine windows, tethering)

Carrie detained in UK (the W word in immigration interrogations) 

When your luggage stays behind Barcelona/San Sebastian (value of Tiles, check dest tag, not safe until at gate with verbal conf) 

Dysfunctionality of customs : 6 boxes return to sender (gifts, value delcaration, VAT)

Delayed flight out of Miami = missing the FEIE by one day (FEIEcalc.com, buffer days) 

Implementing backup payment method on Uber & ApplePay

Putting Tiles in everything, scotchgard and Permetherin everything, passport RFID accidents

Downloading offline Gmaps, scan passport, Split cards, paper copy of passport in moneybelt 

Making the most of local experiences: EatWith, Meetup, Internations, AirBnb experiences

Understanding the FEIE – pay for your whole year via tax loophole (consider residency in non income tax state prior). FEIEcalc

Best resources for rapid language acquisition

Adopting a “tribal mentality”

Preserving friendships back home

Dating on the road

Getting through the 3-month dip