Backpack, credit cards, passport and laptop

The laptop or notebook as it must be called now is definetly becoming more and more popular as a travel accessory with the intrepid World traveller. I certainly thought that was the case in Southeast Asia but the same is true of New Zealand as well. I have a free wifi connection where I am … Read more

Working Nomad questions and answers part one

I am going to start a questions and answers theme for a few weeks after a suggestion made on one of my posts. This should give you a good idea where I am and what I have been doing. The first part will focus on the work side of things. I am still in Auckland … Read more

Thanking the Google Gods not the Yahoo Yahwehs

January has seen a spectacular start to 2007 for the Working Nomad. Most of my sites traffic seemed to plummit in December but I hung in there and kept working away and now I am seeing the benefit. In terms of search engine traffic I get very little from Yahoo. Indeed I never have got … Read more

Quick update from Taranaki

I drove down to the Taranaki area of the North Island yesterday and have spent most of the day surfing the famous Fitzroy Beach, until the cold water gave me cramp! I am off tomorrow for some overnight trekking around the spectacular Mt Taranaki volcano before heading back to Auckland at the weekend. January has … Read more

Turning a corner… slowly.

Hey guys, It’s been ages since I’ve updated on my progress but it seems like a lot has happened lately. December was a great month with a couple of discoveries – Linkworth and selling text links directly. I sold one Linkworth link in December for $20/month (before the %25 cut) and decided to up my … Read more

Finding the balance between being settled and nomadic

I am still in Auckland and happy with my decision to come to NZ again and stay aound for a while. Staying in a backpackers hostel gives me the flexability to go away for a week or so which I will be doing next week. I also have free wifi access here and I am … Read more

Earnings report for Dec 06

December started horribly and I had a number of my worse days for well over a year but somehow I managed to recover, basically from Christmas day onwards which is strange! I expected the Christmas period to be worse not better. Anyway my earnings for the month came in at a little under GBP 1800 … Read more