Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Xristerj from the Discord server asks, Gary, you said when you decided to travel the world, you sold your house and bought a camera you didn’t know how to use. Then the pandemic ended your traveling phase. So do you now live in a house again? Do you rent an apartment? Or do you live in the back of a van by the side of the highway with a microphone and an Internet connection?

I actually had an apartment for about three years before the pandemic that I used as a home base between my travels. After a decade, I had gotten burned out, so I had a place I could go between trips. I was still on the road about half of every year at that point.

Today, I still have an apartment. I rent instead of own because I don’t want to get stuck with a long-term mortgage should I want to move somewhere else. I’ll most certainly be traveling again at some point, but it wont be traveling full time and living on the road like I did in the past. I’d probably stay somewhere for three to six months before moving on to somewhere else.