Personal blog on early retirement, selling tradelines, and analytics projects. I write about what I learn as I am learning it.
travel
As I was planning (daydreaming) about my always-postponed digital nomad life I watched, on a plane, of all places, the movie “Nomadland”. The movie is not really about a digital nomad but a “regular” nomad. It won the Oscar(!?) and it is an interesting movie. But it made me think again about life on the road and the movies that portray it. My two favorites by far are “Into the wild” (I also have the book but never read it) and “The motorcycle diaries”.
I have Italian roots, and for years I’ve had this persistent fantasy of working from a terrace somewhere in Tuscany or a flat in Bologna — laptop open, espresso at hand, pretending I live there instead of just visiting. So when I started seriously researching digital nomad visas, Italy was the first one I looked into. The short version: Italy was late to formalize this, but the situation has changed, and there are real options now.
Google Fi, a wireless service operated by Google, is recommended by experts and users because of its affordable plans and international travel benefits.
Google Fi, formerly known as Project Fi, is partnered with T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular, intelligently switching your phone from one network to another depending on your location.
In an effort to lower my cell phone bill without sacrificing phone service abroad, I switched to Google Fi because I intended to travel frequently. I signed up for the plan back in 2015 when it was really new.
