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.
This is Lev!
Lev is a 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 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 with budget travel tips while she trots about the globe (29 countries and counting). She shares all of her travel knowledge and advice on The Nomad Almanac.
Mia’s Top Destinations So Far
- 🇮🇹 Rome
- 🇻🇳 Hanoi
- 🇲🇽 Oaxaca
We are fortunate enough to be digital nomads who travel the world. We feel SOOOO incredibly lucky to be able to experience the world and make new memories.
In the past few years, we have traveled to 23 countries together (not including the already long list of countries we had already visited by ourselves before we met)!
Of those 23 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 this digital nomad lifestyle 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 digital nomad journey as well!
Frequently Asked Questions
When did you become digital nomads?
While we have both individually traveled for years, we mark our 2022 backpacking trip to Asia as the moment we became digital nomads. More specifically, the date we became digital nomads was our first day in Bali, the 4th of August 2022. Since then, we have been traveling non-stop as digital nomads, 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, 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?
An Ethical Digital Nomad Platform
As digital nomads, we hold some responsibility for certain issues going on in the world, and it is important to recognize these issues, act on them, and adapt to them. Here at the Nomad Almanac, we are all about promoting and practicing ethical and sustainable nomad practices. We, as nomads, have the privilege to embark on our worldly adventures and make income as long as we have a wifi connection and our laptop. But we try to always be mindful and aware of the people and the culture around us.
Digital nomads often roam around the world boasting about their ability to “hack the system” and live in countries with a much lower cost of living than their home country. This attitude is not only disrespectful to the locals in the country they are in, but it harms the image of the digital nomad community as a whole. So, to combat this, we want to promote a nomad community that acknowledges their privilege and lives embedded in their local community while listening to, learning from, and respecting the local point of view.
Check out our full guide on living life as an ethical digital nomad.
In-Depth Perspectives
And as slow travel digital nomads, or slowmads, 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 and digital nomad. 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.
Besides travel and digital nomad destinations, we also cover everything you need to know about becoming a digital nomad like us, travel tips, and more!
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