Six continents for what I spend per month on rent? Pretty amazing. Even at three grand it would be a great deal...
This seems like a useful service. I wonder how often it produces results this good.
This seems like a useful service. I wonder how often it produces results this good.
It's very common to go traveling the world for basically the same amount of money you spend just going to work.
Travel slowly, immerse yourself in the daily in-and-outs. Rent apartments, do housesitting. Stay at least a month in a big city, use it as a "home base," and make shorter excursions out from there.
At the same time, there's adventure to be had coding and traveling at the same time... had to mute myself in a Google Hangout daily standup once because the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohri drums from the Delhi streets below were drowning me out. Brushed death on a Bangkok mototaxi in rush hour traffic en route to a give a meetup talk. Most exciting of all: found novel timezone bug in an app once by working in a zone (India Standard Time) with a 30-minute offset.
I'm a software engineer, so I work online too, irrelevant of the country I happen to be in.
If you seriously think about driving (you should!), you'll find http://wikioverland.org very helpful.
http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
Everything you want to know is on my blog. If you have any specific questions, feel free to post a comment there, I'll reply. I really like to help out others doing the same thing in any way I possibly can.
I'm dead serious when I give the offer of help in any way I possibly can.
Also, there is no need to be jealous. It's not expensive, or overly difficult. It was also by far and away the most rewarding thing I've ever done in my life. If you want to do it bad enough, change a few things around in your life and you can do it!