Lynda ArtesaniLegal Accountant and Data Migration Specialist at The Proper Trust

It happens to all of us... You travel to Bali, Croatia, and London and just forget to go back.

26 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this short spoken narrative, the speaker recounts three key remote‑work travel experiences. In 2016 they attended a two‑day Running Remote conference in Bali, but extended the trip to a month to practice remote work on the island. In the summer of 2019 they decided to stay in Croatia for several months, enjoying the Adriatic coast and remaining through the holiday season. They then planned to attend the QB Connect conference in London in March 2020 and return to the United States, but the COVID‑19 pandemic struck, and they never made it back, effectively continuing their remote‑work lifestyle abroad. The story highlights the appeal of combining conferences with extended stays and how the pandemic unintentionally prolonged a nomadic remote‑work existence.

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to back in 2000, I think '16 or so, there was a Running Remote conference in Bali. I was like, I'll just go there. So it was a 2-day conference, but stayed there for a month. And my outgoing message was, I'm going to a conference and then I'm gonna, uh, I'm gonna practice what I just learned, running remote. And so that's how it kind of came about. And then, uh, summer 2019 is when I decided to take it a little bit longer. For a few months to go to, to stay in Croatia because it's beautiful Croatia. We have Adriatic Sea here. And then I decided to kind of like, I'm just gonna stay through the holidays towards the end of the day. Uh, and then there was a QB Connect in March of 2020 in London that I was just thinking I'm just gonna do that as well and go back to States. Then pandemic happened and then I kind of forgot to come back to States.