Below are the last 100 Earth Vagabonds travel stories and articles. We usually try publish at least twice a week.
We are currently in East Asia.
Last Updated on November 11, 2024 by Ellen
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Last 100 articles, posts & travel stories on budget slow travel
A visitor in Japan
Budget tourists in Kyoto
What our entertainment cost in Tokyo & Mount Fuji
10 Tokyo surprises
Solo journey to meet in Tokyo & our first few days there
Unusual anniversary apart for Earth Vagabonds
Earth Vagabonds work for Ati tribe – again – during budget slow travel adventure
Kortn’s Crib, solo edition: Malay, Philippines 2024
Return to Kurong – the Ati mountaintop village we helped in pandemic days
Philippine friendships endure beyond pandemic
10+ reasons to hang out in Hua Hin — with or without a partner
7 surprises on a trip home, plus a few flashbacks
Buying beer in India: ‘Wine shop’ realities
Kortn’s Crib Auroville + 6-month roundup in southern India
‘Accessible Auroville Bus’ & other bits from ‘City The Earth Needs’
What it looks like outside Auroville, the experimental community for ‘Human Unity’
Exact healthcare costs for Americans in Chennai, India
13 Favorite things in Chennai (and how to survive the heat)
Cricket-crazy Chennai – Tedly’s becoming a fan
An aging budget slow traveler losing weight, gaining muscle
Kortn’s Crib: Chennai 2024 edition
Healthcare in Chennai for budget slow travelers in early retirement
Bike saga, part 2
I am proud of my husband’s good heart
How I cope with mosquitoes — blood-sucking bitches that love me
Budget breakdown: Slow travel stop in Pondicherry, India
Older – still useful – Earth Vagabonds blog posts
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We are Ellen and Theo (Ellie & Tedly) – and we are experts at budget slow travel in early retirement. We are “Earth Vagabonds.”
Vagabond: (n) A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job. (adj) Having no settled home.
Instead of retiring and relocating to one specific place as many retirees do, we wander the planet. Full-time since 2015! It’s a travel lifestyle for us – we are way different than tourists. You could say we are on a never-ending holiday!
We retired early to travel the world while we still were young enough — and healthy enough — to easily do it.
But our methods shared on this site can also apply to people of traditional retirement age. After all – we all have a budget to stick to!
There are more than 750 pages on this site. We share a lot about how to live the budget slow travel lifestyle in early retirement, and we hope you find some of it useful.
Our mantra: Life is Now.
We hope to see you out here!
