Finding Gina Marie - Travel the World

Ep.31 After a few glorious weeks as digital nomads in Southern Italy, we decided to fly back to California. This wasn’t our original plan when we were leaving San Francisco, but you know how our plan…

Ep.30 Friends and tour guides told us to avoid places like Naples and Palermo in Southern Italy because they are gritty and dangerous. After a month in these two cities, we have our own perspective o…

Ep.29 Leaving San Francisco was incredibly messy. Our first two Airbnbs had power problems, slow internet speeds, lack of space to work, and the world’s smallest showers. But are we happy with our ne…

Ep.28 We started our digital nomad lifestyle by doing almost everything wrong. In this episode, we share the most important things we could have done better… and hope this helps other first-time digi…

Ep.27 We can’t believe we actually did it, but we did. We’ve sold or donated all our stuff (and put a select few things in storage), gave up our San Francisco apartment, and flew to Italy! We’ve offi…

Ep.26 After months of mental gymnastics and a long-awaited trip to Portugal to see if we want to move there, we’ve made a decision. In this episode, we reveal our plans and the deadline for our move.…

Ep.25 We made it to Portugal… finally! But what were our first impressions? Join us as we discuss our thoughts about this trip from beautiful locations in Lisbon and Porto. We also chat about how thi…

Ep.24 Join us as we stroll to Cheese Plus in San Francisco, grab some breakfast, and try to decide if we’re ready to process paperwork and move Portugal, or roam around the world as digital nomads. A…

If we choose to be digital nomads, there are a lot of positives. But we also have to give up more stuff and make some really hard choices in our lives. In this episode, we sit in San Francisco's Lafa…

Join us as we sit on a beach — with the Golden Gate Bridge as our backdrop — and discuss how we’re going to get to Europe. We’ve planned 3 different paths and received plenty of signs that we should …

We try to share both our successes and our failures in our videos. By keeping it real, we hope to make real connections with you — our viewers. But how much sharing does it take to turn it into overs…

Life goes by so fast sometimes and often we don't take the time to slow down and just breathe. This episode is about our daily rituals that help us stay connected with each other and find ways to dra…

Timing is tricky when it comes to downsizing the bigger items, like furniture, electronics, and things we need to keep using until we are ready to move. We talk about and work the problem in this epi…

At the end of March, 2023, Kevin will be the same age his dad was when he passed away. When he realized our plans will overlap that date, it triggered a flood of emotions. We felt we needed to pause …

Ep.17 This episode is about getting rid of the things we’re not using daily or just don’t love. The limitation of 5 suitcases is a good plan, but since we don’t have our European destination finalize…

Ep.16 Downsizing for our move to Europe looked like a simple process, but as we broke it down into steps it got complicated. Can we keep from feeling overwhelmed by this task? We talk about it in thi…

Ep.15 One solution to being stalled from acquiring an Italian Residency Visa is to move to Portugal… at least for a little while. In this episode, we talk about the D2 and D7 visa options and why we’…

Ep.14 After picking an Italian city in episode 13 that we would love to call home, we hit a roadblock. This led to brainstorming a solution and gaining a better understanding of the Schengen 90/180 d…

Ep.13 Follow us on our journey to find a new home in Italy. From Lucca to Florence, then to Parma, and on to Verona and Venice, before we finish our tour in Bologna. We share beautiful views, foods, …

Ep.12 On New Years Day 2022, we planned a 6 city trip to Italy to find our next home. We explain our top 9 criteria that a city has to meet to inspire us to move there. There’s also a senior moment s…