melissa

A few snaps from day 1-2 as we travel from Da Nang, central Vietnam to Beijing by train.

Train 1: Da Nang to Hanoi, 6pm to 11am

#digitalnomad #worldschooling #family #travel #vietnam #china #selfledlearning #adventuretravel

Would you catch trains from central Vietnam to Beijing China? Over three weeks… With four kids? 👀

New workation adventure loading… starting Tuesday 🤩

Lately I’m vibe coding upgrades on what was my old crappy travel blog. Today, it is far better than it ever was before. I still have a lot to improve, but now, writing posts is joyful and easy.

I’m almost finished the first in a series of #worldschooling posts. These will share our experiences of Worldschooling locations around the world. 🤩

If you’re a #nostr #parent into all the alternative #education options, you might enjoy reading these as I publish them. 🤩🤩

Cruising through some tunnels where an entire village used to live to hide from the bombing. 🙏

#vinhmoc #vietnam #digitalnomad #family #travel #worldschooling

#workcation hits different here.

We’re on the way home after a week in rural Central Vietnam. One week is never enough in this place. If you come, try to book as long as possible. A month is good. 😄

#pubwithcoldbeer #phongnha #vietnam #digitalnomad #family #travel

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on migrating my old Wordpress site (thanks AI). It’s happened pretty quick which I’m happy with and although I now have a lot of updating to do, I’m far more motivated to get it done than any time in the past.

This week we’re out in a small rural village called Phong Nha, home to the world’s largest cave and one of my favorite places in the world.

At dinner, an older couple approached our table and asked if I have a travel blog. They told me they came here because of my blog. I realized if people traveled because they read something in my old terrible blog, then I’m doing the right thing by moving it to a system that I’ll actually be motivated to maintain. I’m happy. 😊

📸 sunset at Phong Nha Farmstay tonight 🤩

#digitalnomad #family #travel #vietnam #sunset #grownostr

A photo from our flight out. Since then the whole house got the flu and we are all so grateful to be at home (I got hit last - I had thought I’d be lucky and miss out) 🏝️

Looking forward to getting back to life asap. Currently drinking 4+ liters of water and taking 2000mg vitamin c a day, I think I’ll be good again tomorrow 🤞

This could be advertising #worldschooling 😂

Travel the world. Bond with your kids. Find the power that being a primary influence gives you to guide your children with the kind of love and support no peer network can provide.

12 years in a prison (aka classroom) is not progressive when we have access to the entire worlds knowledge at our fingertips 💭

A bit of our sightseeing here in #hongkong #2025

Should we come and live here for a month?!?

#digitalnomad #family #worldschool

My BTC Hong Kong story 🇭🇰…

I noticed that this event was coming up at the same time as our visa run was due.

so on day 1, I sat up the front to catch

and then my boss talk on the main stage. I waved to my boss when he walked out.

Later, I found out one of the team thought I was a crazy stalker lady 🤣😀😅😂😆

I promise I’m not a crazy stalker lady, but sometimes I’m very excited to be around epic people. 😅

Now the conference is done. ✅

I’m tired. All in all, it was a great experience. I saw a lot of people I’ve met in Asia. I also met some new Bitcoiner friends. I’m excited for the rest of the year and maybe even a bit more traveling to new places 🤩

Chiang Mai in late October might be a good choice?! 😍

It’s nice to check in and see the growth and different people sharing their lives and stories here 💯

A good way to start the morning 🤩

I was waiting at the Nakamoto stage for your talk! Where are you?!

Miss M met Snoopy today 🤩

Tomorrow is a big touristy day planned 😍

#hongkong #digitalnomad #worldschool #travel #family

Hello #hongkong 👋

Almost packed for 🇭🇰😍

I need to come home with a

hat 💯

Home is so beautiful 😍

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” —G. K. Chesterton

Grateful for every moment of my life, grateful for my husband and my four children. I’m grateful for my parents and my sisters.

Grateful every day.

What are you grateful for today? 🙏

#worldschool #digitalnomad #family #travel #rtw

Me too 😅

2012 days = 66 months. 66 months of seeing new places (and a lot of old). Two laps around the world. 🏝

From Aussie, to NZ, to Vietnam which became home during the times of lockdowns. A book has to be written about that (working title, Freedom in the time of Lockdowns).

No option to go back to NZ, so on to Turkey, Greece, then Spain for the birth of Manaia.

A year of settled life and learning language. Then on to Bulgaria, back to Vietnam, then in and out between Vietnam and Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos.

Then tiredness kicked in and we returned to NZ to stay long term for the first time since 2011. It wasn't meant to be. I got spoiled with a one week trip to NYC, USA - a dream I had since 2010 ✅

Then back off around the world, Malaysia, Spain, UK, a Trans-Atlantic Cruise (didn't see that coming), The Azores, British Virgin Islands, St Marteen, Antigua and Barbuda, Martinique, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama, USA (LA for a two night stop over), Japan (Tokyo and Osaka)... Back to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia.

Wow, wow, wow. 🤩

If you asked me in 2009 what my life would look like - let's just say I had a pretty depressing outlook back then. I had to do some deep digging to draw out my dreams, and this is my dream. 🪄

Never, ever be afraid to dream. It's so so worth it. Not necessarily something they teach in schools. But they should. You are manifesting every moment of your life. Your attitude = your altitude. Get out that notebook and dream big impossible, wild, limitless dreams.

Now for my next big dreams under construction. Helping others to make their big dreams become their reality.

#worldschool #digitalnomad #family

I think I need to listen to this before I do my overland China trip in October?!?

Hey #nostr 👋

Who might be in Hong Kong towards the end of August? 👀

I haven’t been taking many photos lately. I’m working really hard to rebuild an oldish website I had that I wasn’t super happy with. Hopefully, in the not too distant future I’ll be able to hang out here much more often 🤩

In the meantime here’s a sunset from probably last month

#anbang #hoian #vietnam #digitalnomad #family

Just dropping by to say hello 👋

We’ve had a wild six months, bouncing from Dominican Republic, to Colombia, to Panama, to USA, to Japan, back to Vietnam, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and now settled into Vietnam a while.

As usual, I’m tired, working and just keeping life going.

How’s nostr life? 😍

Fell off the posting wagon sorry nostr 🤷‍♀️

Anyways, since Dominican Republic, we spent a week in Colombia, a night in Panama, a couple of days in LA & now we're in Japan 🤩

Japan is cold. Probably the wrong time of year to go sight seeing with small children who love the tropical weather. We've spent half our time here shopping for winter clothes 🤣

Anyways. I'm still here. Just distracted or trying to focus and not getting anywhere. I want to write my books. Just maxed out with #mumlife, work, and #travel life.

Books are my exit strategy. Getting the energy to write and be in the creative mindset is my wall right now. I will break through. Just may take a little bit.

How are you all?

📸 My favourite door in Cartagena, January 2025 😍 https://image.nostr.build/bf4ca71aeb3d7105c5d39a265cd414180e821ac242e0e09f86f40b9f65700a9e.jpg

I feel like it's almost time to write some books again... Miss M is starting to sleep a lot better. But now comes the hard bit. Do I write about Worldschooling in general? Our travel during 2020/21? General travel stories? Some of my ideas about life? Or my fiction piece based in 2071? 🤷‍♀️

Hmmm. There may also be other books I started too. 😅

What would you read about? 🦋✈️💜 https://image.nostr.build/76fb78345ec54fedf3809a9d9ef94c1dfeb4ed71dd52825926aa3a0358c4e0e0.jpg

How miss M eats tomatoes 🍅😅🤷‍♀️

She brought it to me and said, you want to eat it 😁😅🤣 https://image.nostr.build/8c95e04bfbbd21d0ef7237500118a84a97c09a384916fb1784f4c58c3d77d993.jpg

👀

Time to relax ☺️

This year has been epic. From NZ to New York (for a NYSE listing that was pulled at the last minute by the SEC) and back, to Malaysia, Qatar and Spain. Then a transatlantic cruise from England to France, Ponta Delgada, BVIs, St Marteen, Antigua & Barbuda to end in Martinique and close out the year in Dominican Republic. This is going to be a hard travel year to beat. 😁

It's actually a hard year to beat all around. My kids are doing great. They are happy. We are happy. We are enjoying life with our friends.

Tomorrow Exodus finally lists on the NYSE American. Bitcoin was $108k today. Work is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

I feel very grateful and blessed to live this epic life 🍾

#worldschool #travel #family #unschool https://image.nostr.build/158b044cbd968db22ab4321cd3e30c95e191cdfed5fd3bd60744032c778fcc35.jpg

Anyone else reading this in song in their head? 😅

One more day of work until I get a week off... Christmas 🎄 is coming and I have choose our next destination & start getting organised. January is coming so fast. 😬 https://image.nostr.build/e662701995ed39f7e83b8b73cb17529ce31bf55a7d8fb2a879bc189afcee7323.jpg

Go live. Not just exist... Really live. One of my favourite quotes 👇

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

You absolutely CAN. I have many times and it was always worth it. 💯

Gm 🏝️

Our plan for the day looks a lot like this... With our friends who all arrived last night. 😍

What's your Thursday looking like?! https://image.nostr.build/a241c1582b0daf4fce5d143878006827a3c11482daae029ab4bd31f054000eb4.jpg