6/30/2023 0 Comments Traveling while working remotely![]() You must have proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken no later than 72 hours prior to your flight and then take another test several days after arriving. That became very clear to Sam Keller and his family, who relocated to Tahiti from Mill Valley, California, this month after Keller was laid off from a real estate tech firm and his wife’s San Francisco–based tech job announced that employees could work from home until August 2021.įrench Polynesia, a group of 118 islands in the South Pacific, including Tahiti and Bora Bora, reopened to travelers from all countries on July 15. Remote work and school fundamentally rely on one key resource-the internet. You will need reliable internet (repeat, you will need reliable internet) “After that, we don’t really know where we’ll end up,” says Mayring. They are en route to Las Vegas, where they will rent a condo for a couple months and also plan to visit Zion National Park in Utah. The family has been staying at a combination of Airbnbs, their Texas vacation home, and house sitting for friends who had also hit the road ( house swap, anyone?). As of early September they were exploring Marfa, Texas. Mayring and Mikosh put their belongings into storage at the end of June and have been road-tripping around the Southwestern United States ever since. Living the untethered life might just be the way to reset, pursue new interests, and experience a sense of freedom that many of us haven’t felt in a while,” says Mayring. “I think that a lot of remote workers in big cities are asking themselves, ‘Why do we still live here?’ There’s nothing really tying them to the city, and it doesn’t make sense to keep paying high rents when everything is shut down. ![]() Imagine living rent-freeįor travel blogger and producer Skye Mayring (known in the blogosphere as Joan Jetsetter), her husband Jake Mikosh, and their one-year-old daughter, once Mikosh’s job went fully remote, they saw it as an opportunity to set off from their base in Los Angeles. If you do your research, in terms of health, safety, and logistics, these families have shown us that it can be done. That said, there are also countries actively courting “digital nomads” and remote workers and families for longer-term residence. ![]() Some states have quarantine and travel restrictions in place, and many countries still won’t let Americans visit-let alone live and work there. ![]() Before you start taking notes and plotting your own WFP (work from paradise) journey, always be sure to be up to date on coronavirus-related travel restrictions and public health precautions, whether you’re planning to travel domestically or abroad. ![]()
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