Thanks

@Danny Outlaw - good for you, I’ve heard Costa Rica is fantastic. We never made it there from Panama but it gets rave reviews from people who’ve been.

Hotels would seem prohibitively expensive, and hostels would seem an obviously bad choice.

Also, what would you recommend for someone who’s sig other isn’t a freelancer and doesn’t really have a trade? she works in the health care industry.

We’ve learned our lesson though and our plans for next year are very different…usually the money you save by living in cheaper countries helps offset the cost of flights - so for example, we would typically spend approx. £1,800-2,000 per month ($3,600-4,000) when we lived in the UK on mortgages/rent/food etc. Living in places where we can spend far less each month, usually more than covers the cost of the flights to get there. It’s also a case of checking out the best (cheapest) routes and planning your itinerary so you don’t get charged premium costs for the flights you do take. It’s a bit of a palaver researching it all and figuring it out, but now we’ve done it this year, we’re much more clued in for next year.

@Misty Beier - no, we don’t travel to meet clients, we just travel because we want to. We work with clients “virtually” via skype/email etc. You ask some good questions about being able to focus on the business with all the distractions - I’ve literally just posted about this on my blog (link above) on “how to maintain focus on your business whilst travelling the world” and have answers to many of your other questions on the blog too. I’m a good planner - both personally and professionally - so our businesses have very strategic plans which help keep us focused. I’m also a bit of a business process guru, so we have good business processes in place so things run smoothly. I use a VA (virtual assistant) to helps with a lot of travel research and other tasks.

Of course, the soaking up on different cultures is a great bonus.

“if you only need to generate £400-600 ($800-1200) per month to live the good life”

Cyan - thanks…Jonathan was very pleased with your praise…you know what artists are like…craving adoration and praise!?!

Re. internet connections - it’s the one criteria we have to be really strict about when we’re choosing a place to go to and the one thing we really worried about before we left. Having said that, it’s surprising where you can get wifi these days! Some of the most stable and fastest connections we’ve had have been in tiny backwater places like Bocas del Toro in Panama (free wi-fi almost everywhere!) and here on the island of Grenada.

Not sure about Thailand wi-fi - I’ve been doing some research on this as we’re possibly heading there next year - and I suspect that it’s there, it’s just not advertised much. In my previous experience though, most cybercafes don’t mind you hooking up to their connection with your laptop (unless they’re super busy) and don’t usually charge you much to do so.