Could you be a digital nomad?

What is a digital nomad, and why would you want to be one?

When people hear the term "digital nomad," they often picture someone sitting in a coffee shop in Bali or Thailand working on their laptop, but that's just one way of doing it.

At the start of the pandemic, approximately eight million people worldwide called themselves digital nomads. Now, there are over 30 million.

You can have a home base and still be a digital nomad

Tim Ferriss, the author of the famous book "The 4-Hour Workweek," which opened people's eyes to the concept of traveling around the world and working part-time, now lives in Austin, Texas, but he still travels a lot.

Rolf Potts wrote the book "Vagabonding—An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel." When he's not traveling, he lives in a small farmhouse on 30 acres in rural north-central Kansas.

Whether you want to travel around the US in your RV or explore a different part of the world, being a digital nomad working on your computer is a good way to pay the bills and make your dream a reality.

How to be a digital nomad

The two keys to making the digital nomad lifestyle work are finding a low-cost way to live and making money doing work with your computer.

If you're living in an RV, you're already well on your way because you've already found a low-cost way to live, but that's just one way to make this lifestyle happen. Another article will cover some of the many ways of making money while traveling. It's easier now than ever.

You don't have to decide if you want to travel the world or live in your RV. You can do both. That's what I do. I live six months outside the US and six months in the US in my motorhome.

Bottom line: Can you see yourself being a digital nomad and working in any of the locations pictured below—or maybe all of them?