Life is always going to be scary, so you have to try and push past it. And sure, this might have crashed and burned, but you never know until you try. If we had let fear rule our lives, we wouldn’t be on this amazing adventure now. Ultimately, we now look back and wish we’d done it sooner. We had to leave our careers, friends, families, the comfortable culture we were used to, almost all our belongings, and SO much more to make this happen. Jordan and I both had our doubts and fears about traveling to Mexico and starting Tangerine Travels. If there’s any advice I could give other women who are just starting out it would be to not let fear stop you from living your best possible life. picking a video topic, responding to an endless stream of social media comments, managing our finances, seeking new income sources, etc.) And regarding Tangerine Travels as a whole, the biggest hurdle is staying on top of it each day… whatever “it” may be that day (i.e. Getting accustomed to the culture is a bit more fun (most of the time). Despite doing daily Spanish lessons for 1.5 years leading up to Tangerine Travels, we still have difficulties learning the language and communicating with locals each day. Since leaving the US, the biggest struggles surround language and culture. The process of selling everything we owned and getting things in order was a much bigger task than either of us could have imagined. □ Jordan likes to say that the hardest part happened before leaving. In the most literal sense of the phrase, it hasn’t been a smooth road, driving through Mexico. Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome? Although Phoenix is still our base, we are making it our mission to showcase other countries - specifically Mexico right now - through daily travel videos on YouTube and blog posts on Steemit. The reason we call ourselves Tangerine Travels is because we’re driving our tangerine-colored Prius C throughout the country. From then on, we started making serious decisions about what we could do to change that.Īfter many long, serious conversations we made the decision to sell all our things and travel through Mexico with our Siberian Husky, Laska. It wasn’t until 2016 that we traveled to a SteemFest conference in Amsterdam that we realized how little we really knew about the world. With that said, neither of us got the chance to travel much outside of the country. For me, I was born and raised in Phoenix. My boyfriend and I had been living in the US our whole lives. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. Thanks for sharing your story with us Maddie. Today we’d like to introduce you to Maddie Nunley.
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