From Kenya to Kensington, one reporter takes his work from home skills on the Grand Tour in a last hurrah before settling down and (hopefully) starting a family.
My wife, Marissa Levien and I, on October 26, 2021 aboard an empty flight from New York to Paris for a short layover before heading to Nairobi. While highly trafficked flights were often empty, those less frequent were packed.The motorcycle taxis of Nairobi no longer offer helmets. In the age of Covid-19, sharing headgear is considered a greater health risk than head trauma. I wish I could say I ran straight to the nearest motorcycle, or “boda boda” shop to buy some protection, but I didn’t.
We were hardly alone in our wanderlust. Last year an estimated 35 million digital nomads roved around the globe, according Singapore-based Nomad List, a membership-based group of 45,000 travelers. Half of them were American. Nearly 80% are male, most of them in their 30s , and the lions share are making between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. Almost all are fully vaccinated, including my wife and me.
At the private Passport Health clinic in Phoenix, just before departing to Mexico, we were presented with a menu of vaccines for our imminent overseas trips, covering everything from Japanese encephalitis to cholera. It was unclear what we actually needed.
Working at my makeshift office, a mirador, or"lookout," normally affording my step-mother a view of the surrounding rainforest while she builds doll-houses. October 2021, Chapala, Mexico.The technical problems didn’t really start until I took my first Zoom call in Mexico, when the best Internet money could buy still resulted in conversations that made it seem like the person on the other side was a glitched-out Max Headroom. This wasn’t going to work.
Technical issues aside, the experience was life changing. On our very first night in Africa, we taught ourselves how to cook, a form of maize meal, grilled goat and a salad similar to bruschetta, but with coriander leaves instead of basil.
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