Hi Anca,
Thanks for visiting and commenting! To answer your question about why I now have a home base (in case you haven’t yet discovered it through the rabbit hole that is my website – ha ha), this article which I wrote in 2018 explains it best: https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/my-epic-search-for-a-home-base/

This is the most comprehensive report I’ve found on traveling full time (or half the year) and also the only one I found backed up with financial data. Thank you for assembling this after reading your article I realized It is not as expensive as I thought. I am curious as to why you decided to travel only half the year and to maintain a home, maybe you explained this in your other articles, but I barely found your blog, so I did not read everything .. yet :). Your blog is addictive by the way, very inspirational and with a particular style that I really love. Good luck with the blog! I will return to read it 🙂

40 hours! Stopping this will save you better than a whole work week, an extra week! That’s a big deal.

Hi Steve,
Always interesting to get the take of an occasional reader. Thank you!
You’re right in that I didn’t take advantage of Guatemala because I was still fundamentally burned out from the year(s) prior.
Also, I had grown weary of the full-time travel lifestyle, hence getting a home base in Toronto.

But rest assured I’m not weary of travel in general nor of reporting on it, as I hope I demonstrated with articles like this one (https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/this-is-the-best-way-to-visit-newfoundland/).
I’m currently 3 months into a 4 month trip and absolutely adoring it (and Greece, where I’m spending most of my time)….now, one year after Guatemala, after taking some time to properly recover from burnout, I’m in a much better position to enjoy life on the road once again.

Travel – and our travel styles and preferences – can change, over and over again, as I’ve noticed has been the case since adopting travel as a lifestyle back in 2006.
And indeed, my style of travel has changed and will change again, and again, and again.

By the way, Work-for-accommodation simply doesn’t work in tandem with running a full-time online business. Period. I don’t think it’s a matter of maturity; it’s a matter of not having enough hours in a day! Ha.
Besides, if I’m earning enough money to pay for accommodation, I say why not. This is one of many aspects that define Financially Sustainable Travel – it’s not budget travel; it’s balancing money in and money out to create the (evolving) lifestyle of our dreams.

Finally, to both you and Rob – regarding this being my last report….these financial reports take a monumental amount of time to produce (from gathering data to amalgamating and analyzing and then publishing it). All told, more than 40 hours, JUST for this post alone. I figure I’ve published all the data I need to prove everything I need to prove about financially sustainable travel.

Sounds like you’re a bit weary of both the travel lifestyle and of reporting on it, and looking for a change. Not taking advantage of your time in Guatemala, and your mentioning this being your last report seem to indicate that. Plus not finding the work-for-accomodation adventures appealing. You’re getting more mature, that’s what it seems like.
I’m just an occasional visitor but I enjoy your blog!
Best of luck whichever way you go.

Because in the last paragraph you had this (in bold), ” I think this may be my last expense report”.

Thanks, Rob. I’m curious what you think I’m saying by suggesting that this is my last expense report?