When I was in Japan in 2012 Kyoto felt like a small city with very few Western tourist. I remember running into the same people because we were the only non-japanese people visiting certain sites. I walked through Fushimi Inari shrine almost entirely solo and the monkey park in Arashiyama had no more than a dozen…

I love to travel and my work is pretty flexible and we have a couple of remote people so I considered working remotely and constantly traveling. Where I live now is prohibitively expensive and earning the same amount while living in cheaper places would be amazing. Since I wanted to do something big for my 30th…