Welcome to Never Ending Voyage
We are Simon Fairbairn and Erin McNeaney, a couple who sold everything we owned and left the UK in 2010 to travel the world forever.
With just a carry-on size backpack each we’ve been slow travelling our way around the world as digital nomads, earning a living on the road by creating iPhone apps for travellers at Voyage Travel Apps and from this travel blog. Read more about us.
If you are a first time traveller or aspiring digital nomad, we’ll help you gain the courage to take the leap with our practical tips and inspiring travel stories.
Here are some recommended posts to get you started. Click on the link for the category that interests you or scroll down.
Travel Gear and Packing Light
Erin with the Osprey Farpoint 40 and Simon with his Tortuga backpack
We highly recommend travelling with carry-on luggage only. I have written a book, The Carry-On Traveller: The Ultimate Guide to Packing Light, which shares all my tips.
- 7 Years of Carry-On Travel: Our Packing List Update
- Carry-On Travel in 10 Easy Steps
- The Best Carry-On Backpack for Digital Nomads
- More posts about travel gear including reviews of our favourite items.
Slow Travel
We are slow travellers. We value experiences over sights—participating in ordinary daily activities and connecting with a place through its food, people and culture, delving deeper into one destination rather than rushing through many. Read our Slow Travel Manifesto for more about the slow travel philosophy and how you can apply it even on short trips.
- Our Slow Travel Manifesto
- Our Favourite Slow Travel Experiences
- Our 10 Favourite Neighbourhoods Around the World
Being a Digital Nomad
As digital nomads we can work from anywhere we have an internet connection. We share the ups and downs of working while travelling and offer tips to help you get started.
- Reflections on 2000 days as Digital Nomads
- 60 Useful Resources for Digital Nomads
- How We Got Started As Digital Nomads
- How We Fund Our Permanent Travels
- The Practicalities of Being a Digital Nomad Part 1: Insurance, Health, Banking, and Retirement
- The Practicalities of Being a Digital Nomad Part 2: Tax, Visas, Internet & Phone, One Way Flights, and Security
- How to Buy Travel Insurance When You Are Already Travelling
- More posts about being a digital nomad including our guides to living in cities around the world.
Travel Finances
Don’t let a lack of money stop you travelling. Read these tips on how to afford to travel, and our reports on exactly how much we spend in each place.
- The Cost of Digital Nomad Living: Our Year 6 Budget
- How We Saved 75% of Our Income to Travel
- How To Budget For Long Term Travel (including the costs of our first RTW trip)
- How to Manage Your Finances When Travelling
- More posts about travel finances including our travel budgets and the digital nomad cost of living around the world.
We track our travel expenses with our iOS app Trail Wallet. We designed it especially for travellers so you can set a daily or trip budget, enter expenses in multiple currencies, and see which categories are eating up your cash on the pie chart. Join over 150,000 other travellers and download it here (it’s free for up to 25 items).
Vegetarian Food
Food is our favourite way to connect with a new culture. We are always on the search for the best vegetarian food around the world and love to take cooking classes and food tours.
- Vegetarian Survival Guides to: Turkey, Cambodia, Slovenia, Mexico, Jordan, Burma (Myanmar), Japan, Hong Kong, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
- More posts about world food including our favourite vegetarian restaurants around the world.
Destinations
- Highlights of Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 as Digital Nomads.
- To browse by country, see our Destinations page.
Most Popular Posts
- Planning a Trip to Japan: DOs & DON’Ts
- 8 Towns Not to Miss in Puglia
- The Best Carry-On Backpack for Digital Nomads
- The Secret to Carry-On Only Travel: How to Use Packing Cubes to Save Space
- How Much Does It Cost to Travel in Cuba?
- Vegetarian Survival Guide to Japan
- 7 Years of Carry-On Travel: Our Packing List Update
- 20 Things to Do in Ubud, Bali
- Yosemite National Park in the Summer: A 3 Day Itinerary
Keep in Touch
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