About Us
Hi! We’re Lev and Mia 
You might wonder how a Texan and a Kiwi met and ended up traveling the world together, and well, the answer is: we met traveling! In fact, we met basically in between our two home countries, in Poland. We met at the fresh young ages of 21 and 24, and we have since tackled COVID-19, moving to new countries, and starting a business together.
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This is Lev!
Lev is a full-time traveler and digital nomad originally from Austin, Texas. He has been traveling the world for nearly a decade and visited more than 40 countries. While completely understanding that travel is a privilege, Lev truly believes that anyone who has the opportunity to travel should do it! Since 2021, he has started his own fully remote business and has been working from all corners of the world ever since. Throughout his tenure as a traveler, Lev has picked up quite a bit of knowledge and travel hacks that he shares with The Nomad Almanac.
Lev’s favorite things about travel are connecting with locals, trying new food, and learning the history of places.
Lev’s Top Destinations So Far
- Galapagos Islands
New Zealand South Island- Hoi An
This is Mia!
Mia is a full-time traveler and digital nomad from Auckland, New Zealand. She has been all about slow travel from the beginning. Her first foray into travel was a solo trip to Italy. Prioritizing a long stay above all else, she au paired in Rome for 3 months in 2016. After a taste of travel, she made it her mission to figure out how to travel on a budget. While studying full-time in NZ, she managed a yearly 3-month trip to Italy as well as other solo trips around the world.
Now, Mia considers herself to be a mid-range traveler who prioritizes value while she trots about the globe (34 countries and counting).
Mia’s Top Destinations So Far
- Hanoi
- Oaxaca
- Udaipur
We are fortunate enough to be full-time travelers who slow travel, hopping around from destination after destination. We feel SOOOO incredibly lucky to be able to experience the world and make new memories, ticking off one-bucket list item at a time.
In the past few years, we have traveled to 24 countries together (not including the already long list of countries we had already visited by ourselves before we met)!
Of those 24 countries, we have called Indonesia, New Zealand, the USA, Mexico, Poland, Italy, and Guatemala home, and we’ve extensively traveled to a bunch of other destinations we’ve become super familiar with.
While full-time travel is certainly not for everybody…
It’s completely changed our lives for the better, and we couldn’t ask for more. We hope to inspire you on your own travel journey as well!
Frequently Asked Questions
When did you become full-time travelers?
While we have both individually traveled for years, we mark our 2022 backpacking trip to Asia as the moment we became full-time travelers and digital nomads. More specifically, the date we started traveling full-time was our first day in Bali, the 4th of August 2022. Since then, we have been traveling non-stop around the world, sometimes at a faster pace, other times staying put for months at a time.
How do you make money while traveling?
We try to diversify our income stream as much as we can. Together, we own a business through which we funnel our work. We work in the blogging and marketing sphere, consulting and writing for other blogs and websites. Of course, beyond our clients, we have our own projects as well, namely The Nomad Almanac.
How did you get into blogging?
Our journey starts with our part-time gigs as content writers. In 2020/2021, we started off writing content for other blogs. We found clients through a platform called Upwork. Over time, we honed our skills and SEO knowledge to put our blood, sweat, and tears into creating The Nomad Almanac.
Do you see yourself settling down sometime soon?
We think there will come a point in our lives when we will want to settle down. That time is not anytime soon! However, even when we do settle down, as of right now, we still plan to go abroad and travel for at least 3 months every year. Here’s to hoping we can still manage to do this several decades from now! There’s no end to our ever-growing list of places we want to visit and revisit.
So, What Is The Nomad Almanac All About?
Breaking Stereotypes
Destinations often get reduced to clichés. A city is “too dangerous,” a town is “boring,” a country is only known for its tourist hotspots… But we’ve learned firsthand that every place has layers, stories, and hidden gems waiting to be discovered. And more often than not, the reality is far more vibrant and complex than the stereotypes suggest.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from years of travel, it’s that places are rarely what you expect them to be.
We don’t believe in writing off a destination based on stereotypes or secondhand opinions. We go, we experience it for ourselves, and we look beyond the surface. And this means we typically don’t listen to unsolicited travel advice. We only take advice from people who we aspire to travel like – and you should do the same.
Some of our most memorable experiences have come from places we never expected to love. Travel has shown us that no matter where you go, there’s beauty, culture, and something worth experiencing—if you’re willing to look beyond what you’ve been told.
We share our experiences not to convince you that every place is perfect, but to show you that every destination has depth and beauty.
In-Depth Perspectives
And as slow travelers, we are able to make friends with locals, discover our favorite restaurants, find hidden gems, and really experience a new culture in a way you couldn’t if you were to simply travel through. While, of course, immigrating to a new country is the best way to fully immerse yourself in a new country, we love travel too much to give it up!
At The Nomad Almanac, we want to provide the BEST of the best when it comes to all things travel. We only write content on towns, cities, and countries we are super familiar with and have spent a good amount of time in. That way, YOU get the insider scoop on everything there is to know about these destinations!
Through some trial and error, we’ve discovered that the best way to travel for us is to travel slowly. We’ve tried everything – backpacking, fully immigrating to new countries, and slow travel. Slow travel allows us to get to know the place we are temporarily settling into a whole other level.
Here, at The Nomad Almanac, we cover everything you need to know about becoming a full-time traveler like us, slow travel tips, general travel tips, destination guides, and more!
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