What it's like living as a digital nomad in Bali during the pandemic - Business Insider

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.In 2018, I packed up my life in Minneapolis after graduating college and hopped on a plane to Vietnam with the goal of building a location-independent career.

When your "home base" is a storage unit, stay-at-home orders due to a pandemic pose an entirely different obstacle.Some say home isn't a place — it's a feeling. And that's what I keep telling myself while quarantined in Bali precisely 9,386 miles from my home in the United States. After several days of anxious deliberation and a 30-day travel insurance purchase for $42.51, I decided that hunkering down in Bali until further notice was my best course of action.Grocery store runs have now replaced my routine visits to local, Indonesia's traditional family-style eateries. Fragrant coconut-marinated jackfruit curry isn't on the menu for now; instead, I'm biding my time at home making recipes like chili.

I still spend way more hours every day staring at my phone and laptop than I probably should. I still rely heavily on Slack and Zoom to keep up with clients and colleagues around the world. Freelance work, however, is not an infinite spring, especially when you primarily operate in the travel industry and no one can leave the house.

In the meantime, I'm sticking to necessities and keeping things simple. Concerns for the future loom on the horizon for us all right now. I'm just trying to focus on my priorities one day at a time.

Enough from these travel vloggers who have not contributed meaningful content to anything but internet fluff for a long time.

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