About the Author

Hi, I’m Drew. I’ve been living a fully remote life with a full-time job for a few years now. Based outside of Seattle in Bremerton, Washington, I live a remote-friendly life and am often off working and traveling somewhere.

After spending five years working in the Bay Area, I knew I wanted the freedom to live and work from anywhere. I enjoyed my career and stuck out the office life until a few years ago when the right fully remote job came my way. Since then I’ve been working and living abroad. I’ve been writing down everything I’ve learned during covid-19 and want to enable other working professionals to live a remote-friendly lifestyle abroad as well. And the best part is your boss doesn’t even need to know.

I first considered a remote friendly lifestyle when I learned about #vanlife. It intrigued me, especially with all the possibilities it could have with a remote job. So I bought and converted a Ram Promaster with the help of friends and road tripped around the US and Canada with it. All while not missing a Zoom meeting and working full-time. It was the first taste of what was possible.

Last winter was spent living in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. A surf and yoga town with one dirt road. My days would consist of surfing, working at a coworking space, yoga, and meals with folks from around the world.

As of 2020, I am living and working from Portugal during COVID-19. After booking flights back to the US to please family and friends and cancelling all of them, it has been another safe, memorable, and eye opening experience abroad. I hope others are able to gain a better understand of the world through travel, and this book helps professionals do it in a thoughtful manner for the new world we live in.

You can connect with me further on the Contact page.

I work as a full-time remote Growth Product manager for a technology company. To ensure I work well with my team, I work Americas hours and have done so successfully from three different continents.

I’m motivated to do great full-time work as the company entrusts its remote employees and has done a fantastic job developing a supportive and inclusive work culture. That’s saying a lot since all my prior jobs were office based, which demonstrates how distributed companies can build great remote work cultures.

Think optimistically and differently, and the world will open up for you.