I think the first thing people will think when I say I’m going to travel around the world (Aside from I’m crazy) is that I’ll quit my job when I set off. However, for me I don’t really see that I need to. I work as a programmer so my job basically involves sitting at a computer all day. It’s a perfect job for remote working, and while most people remote work from home, I see no reason why it can’t be done from anywhere in the world.

All I’d need is a laptop, and an internet connection. My first thought was to just use internet cafés and wifi hot-spots but that has it’s limitations, and means I’d be bound to certain locations, and not quiet as free to get online as often as I might like.

But in this day and age, getting on-line from literally anywhere in the world is not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be, satellite phones can provide data connections easily as long as you have power, there will be a cost attached, which I need to fully research before I make any firm commitment to the idea however it looks very promising so far.

I’m sure there are some people who will frown upon the idea of driving around the world still in some way tethered to some of the trappings of life most people run away from when traveling, but from my point of view by keeping some income feeding in means that I can keep going for much longer if I want to, I’m not escaping for a year long holiday, I’m changing my whole lifestyle. At least that’s the theory.