nomad4ever

What is a PT?
PT – The Perpetual Traveler
Permanent Tourist, Prior Taxpayer = Perfect Thing!

written by Chris

Upon some research on the net I found some specialized websites, catering mainly travellers or travel bloggers.

So far the following look quite interesting:

http://www.virtualtourist.com/

http://www.travelpod.com/

http://realtravel.com/

all with similar features, more or less easy/complicated to use.

Did anyone test out some of them or even others?

The idea to organize your trips and have something like a diary sounds interesting. So far I organized my pictures in a chronical way, but this can sometimes get messy, when you just want to find some infos/pictures about a certain destination.

written by Chris

Travelling to Perth is sometimes imagined to be expensive, but with a bit of clever planning, this doesn’t have to be the case.

Flights to Perth are generally very affordable and you don’t have to wait long to avail them.

Here are three of the best tips for finding a great deal on flights to Perth.

1. Be on trend

The pricing of plane tickets is based on demand, with airlines trying to achieve as full a plane as possible without lowering ticket prices any more than they have to. Demand can be hard to predict, with ticket prices fluctuating wildly from week to week.

written by Chris

When living a while in one location, you establish a base, from where you can travel to other places. What mode of transport you prefer, is up to you, in Asia’s equatorial weather, for me the best way to get around is by motorcycle.

Driving 20.000 km around Bali and surrounding islands over the last 2 years, I used a Honda Vario 110ccm CBS, which was a great way to use as my day-2-day vehicle. So when Honda came out with the 2012 model, I naturally had to take a closer look. Here is what I think about that bike after using it for 1 month and app. 1.000 kilometer:

written by Chris

On a recent short trip to Vietnam I had the chance to explore the country anew, after having not visited for over 7 years. The Vietnam Lunar Festival Tết Nguyên Đán was just in its last few days, when I touched down in Ho Chi Minh or Saigon.

Over the course of almost 2 weeks I commuted between Saigon and Vung Tau, a beach holiday destination just 125 km south of Vietnam’s largest city.

The overall experience was quite positive, it’s surprisingly easy to get around and make the most of your trip. Vietnam is quickly becoming a modern Asian country, after having suffered so much just a few decades ago.

written by Chris

Recent Awards of nomad4ever.com:

07/2010	04/2011	08/2011

Please click on the image to open a new tab with the respective article or website.

Further mentions:

Interview by GQ China 07/2011 Print Edition

Tricycle Diaries, Featured in GenSan Gazer Philippines 03/2010

(The starting article for the Tricycle Diaries Trip can be found here.)

Featured on LiveInThePhilippines.com Guest Column 07/2009

Around the Philippines – in a Tricycle

Interview by JetSetCitizen.com 05/2009

written by Chris

When things like this happen, it makes me feel that it’s all worth to maintain a website like this over the period of now more than 6 years.

This May, GQ China interviewed half a dozen Bali and Phuket Expats for a July Special Print Issue about people who left the city life behind. It seems more and more Chinese are overwhelmed by their work and life pressure and looking for alternative lifestyles.

So in a 4-hour interview and photo session which took part in the Four Season Hotel in Jimbaran and also Uluwatu temple, I was ‘interrogated’ about how I came to live the life I’ve been living the last 5 years. Here is what came out of it:

written by Chris

The modern working climate is unforgiving. In its never-ending strive for higher productivity and efficiency, employees are a mere cost factor in a firm’s calculation.

A cost factor, that constantly has to be optimized, downsized and monitored for return on investment; restructured and adjusted to fit the firm’s strategies and policies.

What happened to the human factor? To Work-Life-Balance?

Come on – don’t kid yourself! If you don’t watch out for that, nobody else will.

Here is the latest fairy tale from the corporate world, which might just prove that point:

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written by Chris