Jan 28, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
Photo by Premshree Pillai
Ideally running your business on the road as a web worker requires nothing more than your laptop and the common online/software tools beloved of modern nomads.
Sometimes however, you really notice the fact that you don’t have your own customised little workspace to work from which houses everything from your dusty collection of energising crystals (or was that just me?!?) to your trusty collection of reference books.
The first time round we carried a whole load of unnecessary office equipment with us having succumbed to “just in case” fever.
Over the past year we’ve streamlined our portable office to the bare minimum of things we’ve always needed - and if we ever need anything else, we usually just buy it.
Here are the key items that make up the ‘bare essentials’ of a portable office…
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Jan 9, 2008
Written By Lea Woodward
Photo by Naomi Ibuki
One of the recurring themes in the comments around here is the fact that so many of you are struggling to decide which books to take and which books to leave.
My advice? Don’t do what I did the first time round and lug a hulking great business/marketing manual around (all 2kg of it) thinking that it’d be great to have as reference material but never using it once (and that was alongside a number of other books too).
Since that first, ill-fated packing experience when we ended up fed-exing a 12kg box of our stuff (including that book) back to the UK at great expense, we’ve got packing light down to a fine art.
This time round we’re carrying less than 30kg between us in one small suitcase (weight = 17kg) and our laptop backpacks for the next 3 months.
Want to know what’s in it? Here’s a summary of how we travel light…
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Dec 19, 2007
Written By Lea Woodward
Hopefully none of you will do what we did and rock up to a new country speaking zero words of the language.
In our defence, everything we’d read about Panama said it was English speaking but what they really meant was that educated professionals such as doctors, lawyers and all the people you hope not to see speak English, whereas the people you’d really like to speak English (in restaurants, bars, hotels, taxis) don’t!
Here are 10 of the most useful phrases you might need to know for your location independent life both before you arrive and when you’re at your first destination…
(Whether you can understand the responses is another matter entirely, but at least you’ll know you’re asking for the right things and when in doubt…point and smile!)
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Dec 10, 2007
Written By Lea Woodward
Seeing as everyone else is at it at the moment, here are 10 Xmas Gift ideas to direct your loved ones to when they ask “So if you want to travel light and you don’t want me to buy you anything…what can I get you?”
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