Working From Home Tips From Someone With Years of Experience
To help everyone adjust to their new reality of working from home, Lara shares a few tips of things that have and have not worked for her.
Lara Moses
Falling Back In Love With Cape Town On The CitySightseeing Bus
We share how they fell back in love with their hometown of Cape Town by hopping onto The CitySightseeing Bus.
9 Reasons Why We Love Living in Chiang Mai
During our seven month adventure in Southeast Asia, we spent four months living in Chiang Mai – Thailand’s second largest city located in the mountainous north. Lacking the much loved tropical beaches, and famous tourist hot spots that Thailand is known for, we were often asked why we chose to spend so much time in …
How Pursuing My Freelance Writing Career Helped Me Discover Happiness
After six years of working in various 9-5 jobs, and always having a boss, I decided to take my freelance writing career into my own hands, and became self employed. For me, self employment came with a lot of fear, self doubt, and anxiety – not to mention the family concern of me not being …
A Year Of Facing My Fears: Quitting My Job, Becoming A Digital Nomad & Scuba Diving
Whether it’s handing in your resignation letter, bungy jumping off Bloukrans Bridge or public speaking, facing your fears can hold you back from some of the most amazing experiences. My dad always tells me to face my fears and do it anyway, and during 2014, I did just that in a very big way. Quitting My …
Rent n Connect: Staying Connected In Turkey
As a digital nomad, there’s nothing worse than having to head out to go find fast, reliable Internet after returning from a day of exciting tours. Earlier this year I was faced with exactly this problem while on a two and half week family trip to Turkey. Due to the fact that this was my …
Temples of Koh Samui
More than just beautiful beaches and a romantic vacation destination, the island of Samui has a rich cultural and religious presence. With Buddhism practiced by most Thai people, there are various stunning temples on this island. Often seen as tourist attractions rather than a holy place of worship, these temples are frequented by tour buses …
Ban Sua: Our Apartment On Koh Samui
Finding rental apartments in a vacation destination like Koh Samui can often be difficult, but we luckily stumbled upon a blog post by Freelancers On The Road which described the type of apartment we were looking for. Called Ban Sua Samui, these family-owned apartments seemed like our best bet, and we quickly enquired about availability, …
Chalet Robyn’s Nest – A Little Piece of Paradise
If you ask a South African where to go stay for a month or so, Botrivier would probably be the last place that they’d think of. This beautiful little town just an hour and a half outside of Cape Town is a place where cows outnumber people, there is one grocery store, and plenty dirt …
My 6 Step Game Plan After Quitting My 9 to 5 Job
“Choice not chance determines your destiny.” — Aristotle After leaving the comfort of a monthly paycheque, health insurance and overall perceived security, I found myself at home owning my own time. I had a few business ideas, some cushion cash and no real idea how I was going to make the same amount of money I did working …