About
Welcome to The Slow Goer! I’m a gay and non-binary full-time slow traveler sharing my journey through this blog. Alongside me on these adventures are my wonderful fiancé, Haley and our blind dog, Parker.
If you stick around long enough you’ll see I plan on taking up a little corner of the internet that often gets overlooked. Expats – who still travel. Should I make it even more niche? A queer non-binary mid-twenty-something year-old just trying to give an honest and first-hand opinion about the world through their own eyes. So, welcome to my tiny corner of the internet, a space to shed light on some amazing places around the world. An un-sugarcoated and honest perspective of travelling the world.
Ever wonder who writes travel blogs, or even has the time to? In most travel blogs I read, I see travellers who travel full time, nonstop around the globe often working from their laptops, house sitting, or partaking in Work Aways. This is an amazing type of travel, but is something I often perceive as overwhelming, exhausting, and inaccessible to most. It requires the traveller to a) work a remote job b) drop everything and prioritize travel or c) have the mental stamina to up and move locations every few weeks to months. Spoiler alert: that’s not me.
So, who am I?
I am just someone trying to make it through life and explore a bit while I’m at it.
Sure, sometimes I travel non-stop for weeks/months on end. And yes, sometimes I travel for only 3-4 days or 1-2 weeks at a time when I can squeeze it in. But I am also an expat living abroad full time embracing the slow travel life. Hence the name, The Slow Goer. I am not one to discriminate between travel types. I chose a life that allows me to work as a primary school teacher at international schools around the world. This allows me to embrace the culture of the country I live in for a year or two or longer if I choose. I get to travel during all of my many amazing holiday breaks (and because I work in the British school system this is many more than I would find back in the US). It also means that I up and move more frequently than most, but not nearly as much as the thriving digital nomad. A balance I find key to enjoying the luxury of a sane and sound traveller’s mind.
If I’m on the move, you’ll often find me in the town’s local coffee shop, people-watching, reading a book – a hobby I often only partake in while traveling, or chatting up the locals and like-minded travelers.
If I’m back home in my current resident country, you’ll likely find me fixating on my newest hobby, whether that’s the never-ending lifelong goal of playing the guitar, carving wooden spoons, writing blogs, playing dodgeball with expats, baking sourdough bread or the occasional surf when the swell permits. I’ll be up to something fun, and I hope to catch you reading up on it.