I changed jobs at the end of 2024 and I’ve never had more work flexibility than I do now, and I am currently scheming on how to take the fullest advantage of it. Basically, for the past 6 years, I’ve been tied to the Bay nearly full-time through a combination of romantic and professional attachments that are too boring to go into so suffice to say, I was sitting on the sidelines just seething with envy from 2020-2022ish as I watched my friends live their best remote life. Even as I enter my mid-30s and start thinking about “settling down”, blah blah — somehow this has always felt like something I “had to experience” first. Basically, get it out of my system. Or maybe not. Maybe I’ll like this nomadic-ish life and end up doing it forever. Maybe I’ll get tired of it, get married, and raise 4 children on a farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. Who knows! That’s the exciting part.

So I planned this year by basically making list of all the adventures I’ve wanted to do and then figuring out how to fit as many as possible into a year. It’s not going to be the most budget-friendly year, but I’m very blessed to be able to house-sit for my parents while they’re in Taiwan and so be able to off-set some of the bigger spending months with rent-free months laying low in the Bay.