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Hi! I’m Michael. Surely you’re wondering why I got the idea of keeping a travel blog. And how did I started such a life that I can travel every few months visiting several countries every year. I think many of you would like to have such an opportunity. But as for me, of course a lot depended on luck. A few years ago I got a job at a large company in New York and surely at first the work did not involve any travel. It was a tedious job of a simple office employee, mostly paperwork. And I had the same routine many of you have – a five-day working week with eight-hour working day and two days off until I was offered to move to another department — the marketing department. We began to develop quite quickly and entered foreign markets, so there was a need to expand the international department where I was invited. Honestly, I was very happy when I was offered this position because I understood that this is a unique opportunity to travel at the expense of the company. I can’t say that my hopes were justified from the very beginning. I had not so many business trips as I thought I would, but gradually I began to realize that I spend more time on trips than at home, and it didn’t bother me at all, on the contrary, the days went by with such speed that I barely realized that a new month had come. Well, of course, on every business trip, I have time not only to do everything I need but also to travel a little around the country. Now I want to tell you about my last trip.

Remote work as a way to travel without a break

Which job can allow you to travel round the world without stopping your work? Well, I feel it is that easy to search out such a job. Therefore I’m about to tell you ways to work with no need to be in one place at a time. This is a trend that is shown up in society pretty recently however even just last year regarding two hundredth of the office work force was ready to work remotely full-time and it has been aforementioned that number is gonna jump to over 60% in the year 2021. What does that mean? Times are dynamic. People do not got to be guaranteed to a desk hunched over attempting to try and do the work in a nine-to-five setting in a cubicle. If you’ll be able to learn how to do this you’ll be able to implement this trend in your life. you’ll be able to use it to travel the world and obtain paid. It’s the thanks to make your life brighter. I completely recommend that for you as a result of traveling is marvelous. 

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So why not work traveling, fuse work, and travel together? So how do you work remotely? First things first! You got to develop a skill, you got to find ways to create value for someone else or for a group of people. There are a million ways to do this and you need to figure out what you’re passionate about and how you can provide value to somebody else. Once you know how to provide value to someone else and develop your skill set and monetize it on order to get paid you’ll be lucky. You might have heard the phrase “the digital nomad”. But you don’t know what it really means. It sounds like it’s about an elusive mysterious personality that is beach bum or something and somehow they do some shady work and they get paid if they do it okay look. It is not that complicated if you live in North America or in Europe or Australia or anywhere where it would be considered like first world. Typically, you make more money in a place like that. However, you also spend more money because you have to pay rent, pay for food, and fuel your car. And your money’s gone pretty quick. But you live in a world that’s fuelled and connected through technology, which means if you have a skill, any skill that you really do on a computer or that you can use a computer with an internet connection to facilitate it you can work anywhere in the world.

There’s still a stigma in society about where and when you get a job. Your employer often feels like he’s not really buying your work, he’s buying your time as if he owns you for that eight-hour window every day and that’s what driven me insane. That’s something I just could never swallow. You’re giving up your time to somebody for money. I think that when you have a job in an office – and I’ve had this experience – I have had a job in office for like nine months which was enough for me – you aren’t that productive, you might have actual work that you do that day, maybe one or two hours. If you work in the office it’s just every time you’re like deep in your work and if somebody doesn’t like what you do and asks something you snap him out of that like honed. And what happens when you’re out of that state? It takes like 20 minutes to get back into it. They have done studies on this and found out that every time you get interrupted it takes you more time to get back into that state. When you are in office, you somewhat just chasing that work state a lot of time or you’re just slacking off your surfing credit or whatever. In office we usually watch YouTube and do other things –talk for example. That’s how that whole thing is structured. But it’s kind of nomadic lifestyle. Now, with all the modern devices, there’s a huge opportunity that wasn’t there even five years ago to work remotely. Now it’s becoming more and more accepted, more and more widespread. Now it’s a great time to be a manager for yourself, to work on anybody and on a computer. And it doesn’t really have to be a computer – either you can go into a career that allows you to take a job anywhere. You, for example, become a scuba diving instructor. Just like a friend of mine. So by definition you go to places where you can go scuba diving and you’re not likely to be in the same spot all the time. Therefore, you got to travel around the world! You have to seek out these cool places and you will meet different people that are all over the place. Whatever you can come up with, whatever you can visualize in your head, whatever job it is, if you can figure out how you can do it remotely you can take it anywhere in the world with you.

I said a lot but it’s true that the world is changing and more and more companies start actually supporting this nomadic lifestyle. There are different hubs in different countries where you can go to just to live cheaply, to work on your computer day in and day out, to do something in your spare time then. You can never do that at home, because at home you just don’t have access to all these things, you’re not in that beautiful place. With time you become more skillful spending less time for particular tasks, consequently you have much spare time. Nowadays more and more people understand that working remotely is easy and that is the way the world is going these days. You can do some tasks for someone online. Let’s say you’re an editor or you’re a copywriter or you do marketing or you’re a creative person and you do art for people and you sell it online or you do graphic design for someone or you are a voice-over artist and you send audio clips to people. There are millions things you can do on a laptop that are full-time jobs that traditionally are done in the 9 to 5 setting in an office space. Learn how to do it on your own. Advise with somebody else who is in need of those skill sets and you both will be on the road doing what you want to do, doing what you’re good at and what you enjoy, you’ll start travelling around the world. If you just go and put yourself in that environment, other people who are doing this or that will surround you. And it doesn’t matter where you’re – whether it’s Central America, Costa Rica or Nicaragua, whether you stay in one of these co-working spaces or you join them online, you have an online community or a forum…  You just need to immerse yourself in that. If you take that chance and you become closer to those people you’ll learn from them. They’ll rub off on you and then you will be able to just do it for yourself, just by proximity, just by learning through them. You should shape an idea of how you can do it through your own particular situation because everybody has a unique set of circumstances and challenges and reasons, they can or can’t do something. If you do want to try this out just do it!

Mexico trip

Today, I’ll tell you about one of my trips and this trip was to Mexico. I cannot say that I really wanted to visit this country. You know all these stereotypes about Mexico that it is a poor country, full of cacti and everything like that. And surely tequila. Well… I tried tequila, but this was far from the most important thing for me in Mexico. Perhaps the most important thing is Mexican nature.

I had enough time to travel around the country and see all its beauty. And yeah, it’s not only desert and cacti, although there are lots of them as well. My first point was Mexico City but when I learned that they have a park called Aktun Chen, I decided to take an extra vacation so that I had the opportunity to visit the park, which is about one and a half thousand kilometers away from the capital. To visit the park I decided to stay in Cancun for a few days. The distance from Cancun to Aktun Chen is about 62 miles. I traveled all that distance by car, which I rented in Mexico City. Perhaps some of you may think that such a trip is not worth it – why is it worth traveling in the desert by car? Yes, maybe you are right, but I have never had such a trip and I wanted to try something unusual and in the end I did not regret. On the way, I met wonderful people who turned out to be very friendly and hospitable. Along the way, I had to stop at a small motel because the 930 miles long road took about 18 hours and I certainly wanted to rest a little from driving. Fortunately I rented very comfortable car. It was Toyota Camri. With it I had rather comfortable trip.  To my surprise, the owner of the motel had a good command of English so that I had no problems with communication. The next day by the afternoon I finally got to Cancun where I booked the hotel. Oh! I didn’t tell you about Mexico City!  Well first things first. But as I said it was still a business trip. The company reserved for me a hotel in the heart of the city. Surely it was not the best hotel in which I stayed, but the room was well equipped so I had everything I needed. The city is very big. Much bigger than you imagine it and it is very green. There are many separate trees and parks. And for Mexico it is very important because the climate in the country is very hot and parks are a great opportunity to relax in the shade, for example, at lunchtime. And I forgot to say that in summer, of course, it is better not to go to Mexico – it is actually very hot there. It was winter and I enjoyed almost perfect the weather – it was not too cold and not hot. As I said, Mexico City is quite a big city, but there are not so many tourist routes there. Surely, you can take a bus tour around the city, you can walk in the center, but all these excursions will take you only two or three days. Fortunately, I completed my business affairs in the city pretty quickly. And as I said, I went to Cancun. If anyone does not know this is the largest city of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Aktun Chen is three or four hours away from it. So I booked a hotel for a couple of days in Cancun. So I manged to spend a few days on the beach and spend one day in Aktun Chen. I will say right away that 1 day is surely not enough. The park occupies a huge area and offers a variety of entertainments. If you are traveling with children feel free to take them. For them, the park will be a real paradise. It seems to me that the most interesting for them will be zipline.

This is a kind of cable car with the only difference that you ain’t in the booth, but flying like a bird over an abyss fastened to a rope. For adult this attraction will be a great fun either. Sounds tempting right? But surely the impressions that I had from the attraction cannot be expressed in words. But if you think that your health in this attraction is exposed to a danger then you are mistaken. Park staff pays a lot of attention to safety and before each trip you are instructed. I, too, for quite a long time was explained which position I should take and how to attach the carbine correctly. But it seemed to me all intuitively simple. So I dare to assure you that you will get the most out of your vacation on zipline. What else can be found in the park? Of course, the caves. They are known all over the world and naturally I could not pass by them. Once in the cave you’re like falling into another world. If you think that there is total darkness, you are deeply mistaken. In some places there are large holes in the ceiling through which the sun peeps. Even grass grows in these places.

Unfortunately, I managed to spend only one day in this wonderful park. It somehow reminded me of Yellowstone Park.

No doubt Yellowstone is much larger. That’s true! and the nature there is completely different. But still it is nice that the Mexicans, too, want to preserve the wilderness in their country and pay great attention to environmental protection. Actually, this is very important! Especially for a country like Mexico, most of which is covered with desert. That’s why it’s all the more pleasant to meet such a green corner in the middle of the sand-dunes. In total, I spent 5 days in Cancun. Surely I also wanted to lie in the sun and swim in the sea.

Moreover, on the sea I had an opportunity to try scuba diving. I received a lot of impressions and emotions from this immersion. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. In general, it seems to me that the beaches of Cancun are the best in the world. If you open the pictures of these beaches on the Internet, they will seem like pictures from some Paradise island. This is actually the case. On these beaches, I found everything I saw in these pictures – white sand and very clean sea. Every time I dived I saw small fish. Of course you can see them much better when you scuba dive.

But as it often happens, the time passed very quickly and finally I had to return to New York for work. My Mexican business vacation trip was over. After the sea, it was especially difficult to get used to the metropolis. During all the next week I felt very relaxed and constantly wanted to sleep. But the most important thing is the emotions that I received from this trip, as is the case with all other trips.

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