Most “Preparing Your Home for Vacation” checklists are intended for vacation travelers —people leaving their homes unattended for a week or two weeks. We had difficulty finding tips specific to people who leave homes uninhabited for months at a time. So, we wrote this article to help other semi-nomadic people.

In our lives, we’ve experienced a permanent home base while working, as well as nomadic (no home base) living, and are now semi-nomadic (with a home base). When deciding which lifestyle suits your needs, it’s important to note key differences between the options.

One of the challenges of living in a rural area as a one-used-car household is the reduced availability of public and private transportation. But as we dug deeper into the resources available for transportation, we were pleasantly surprised to find options that complement a rural and nomadic lifestyle.

Traveling with a small carbon monoxide (CO) detector is important because it can help protect you and your fellow traveler(s) from the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning while staying in a hotel, hostel, rental, RV, boat, or another accommodation.

We seldom do short-term travel and weekend trips to “get away from it all.” We prefer longer stays and slow travel for several reasons, one of which is that lodging is less expensive. When not thru-hiking, we prefer to spend 1-3 months in a single location.

Before selling our large home and retiring early, we didn’t realize just how much our “normal” 9-5 corporate lifestyle choices were costing us. Now that we own a tiny home in the rural U.S., we understand how expensive our suburban life really was.

As semi-nomadic early retirees, we have traveled to many countries with spices. Here are our recommendations for how to shop for and pack spices to bring overseas.

Staying healthy and fit while traveling can be challenging for several reasons, including an irregular schedule and unreliable access to exercise equipment and healthy foods. Here’s how we stay healthy in our nomadic lifestyle.

Darren and I are nomadic except for three months a year when we spend time in our tiny home in the Great Plains of the United States. In this article we document our experience getting Google Fi to work in rural Kansas in an area poorly serviced by TMobile, USCellular, Sprint and AT&T.

Apple AirTags are small devices that can be attached to things like luggage and keys or placed in your automobile or wallet. They utilize U1 technology and an app called FindMy for tracking and traceability of the items they are attached to.

We’ve spent the past two years transitioning from a mix of documentation stored in the cloud, on laptops and in paper copies to being 99% digital. With this transition, we realized that we needed to access a lot of information regardless of where we are in the world.

In a nutshell, getting rid of almost all our things has been liberating. We haven’t worried about our things in our 10 x 10 storage unit. In fact, one month into nomadic living, we talked about getting rid of even more.

Here are the steps and key takeaways from our long term storage experience. Learn tips from nomads on how to store your things while you travel.

Our path to becoming nomads was an iterative process with plenty of twists and turns. We want to share our experience with readers who might be interested in taking this journey from owning more to living more. It starts with downsizing.

A lot of financial independence stories start with tales of extreme frugality, target savings rates, striving to reach a specific nest egg number, and planning out retirement dates. But this isn’t that kind of story.