Comments on: How 8 Digital Nomads Have Survived the Pandemic

By: Nora

Nora — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:05:05 +0000

In reply to Trevor Warman. Wow! You covered quite some territory during the pandemic. Must have been interesting to see how different countries and cultures dealt with it.

By: Trevor Warman

Trevor Warman — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:47:08 +0000

In reply to Rob. Hi. yes, i was stuck in Kenya for 3 months after they closed the land borders and airport. also without a home to go back to, I took a KLM evac flight to Amsterdam, eventually and I ended up in 'open countries'.. Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia (had to isolate for 2 weeks), then Turkey and then Mexico. where i am again. Trevor Warman

By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:50:58 +0000

In reply to Ratna. Hi Ratna, Thanks! I wrote the article out of personal curiosity, so I'm happy to know others are equally curious.

By: Ratna

Ratna — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:58:13 +0000

Thanks for putting together and posting these pandemic travel experiences, giving an insight into real experiences…..great read!!!

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 11:10:36 +0000

Thank you, Nora, it was great to read about old favorites and new bloggers in such different conditions. But one bit of travel shaming: why does Gabriel object to a _test_?

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:00:28 +0000

In reply to Jesse St Louis.

Hi Jesse,
I know a few other travelers who got “stuck” in New Zealand, and had their visas extended repeatedly….frankly, I’m jealous. 😉
I would love to be “stuck” in New Zealand for a year, especially given that there are practically zero cases there and my understanding is it’s pretty much business as usual (minus tourists).
Enjoy!

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 22:57:57 +0000

In reply to Rob. Hi Rob, Glad you found a good base of operations to wait out the pandemic. Seems like a good plan. :-)

By: Jesse St Louis

Jesse St Louis — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:01:53 +0000

Great article! I came from Gabe’s link. My wife and I were in Thailand last January when we noticed that we couldn’t find any N95 masks to use for our cave exploration in Phang Nga. They were sold out everywhere! That’s when we realized how serious this virus and the reaction to it was. We decided to head to New Zealand, with a quick 2 week stop in Malaysia first. We were able to explore Boreno, Sabah and Mabul Island with a tiny fraction of the normal tourist crowd. It was great to have those areas all to ourselves, but we were concerned about the tourism operators losing a huge amount of business. When we arrived in New Zealand at the end of February 2020, they coincidentally had their first covid case as well. We bought an old carpenter van and converted it into a self contained campervan, but a week later the government announced the lockdown. We were lucky to find a nice Air BnB on a 200 acre farm and spent the 6 weeks of lockdown there. Since then we’ve been travelling all over New Zealand in our campervan and have had normally overcrowded places all to ourselves. The NZ government has extended our visitor visa twice. SO what was initially supposed to be a 3 month stay has turned into a year and we’re hoping for yet another extension.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:36:41 +0000

Another traveler I was reading about on Vagabond Journey (Trevor Warman) ended up in Mexico as did several of the travelers you talked about here, it was a place that allowed them to come in.

Spending this winter traveling the US in an RV didn’t seem like the best thing. Then we got lucky and found a great place for a west coast base so we are settled down until things calm down a bit.