INTRODUCING THE NOMADIC NETWORK!

Posted: 10/31/2019 | October 31st, 2019

How frequently have you told buddies or household about a dream trip of yours, only to have them scoff as well as remind you to be “more realistic”?

How frequently do you desire you had a group of people who comprehended you? Or a location you might go to get your 10,000 concerns responded to before your next trip?

How frequently have you painstakingly researched a total schedule only satisfy some complete stranger at a hostel whose story had the power to make you modification your plans entirely?

We all requirement a supportive neighborhood — as well as as much as I like the Web (and I do like the Internet), the very best connections are made offline as well as in genuine life.

When I very first started planning my trip around the world in 2005, I didn’t understand anybody who had done something similar. Heck, I only understood one person who ever even examined abroad. travel wasn’t a huge thing to the people in my world.

And, unlike today, I couldn’t just go on the internet as well as ask a lot of blog writers concerns or discover numerous articles as well as sites to assist me. In the early 2000s, there wasn’t much beyond a extremely restricted number of hard-to-navigate forums, a few websites, as well as a stack of guidebooks on my desk.

I had a great deal of concerns however few answers.

What I needed was a neighborhood of people who might provide me the first-hand guidance as well as useful suggestions that would make my trip better, as well as assist me get over my fears.

And, when I came back, there were extremely few people who might sympathize with the mix of emotions I was feeling. Again, I was alone. I wanted for a neighborhood of people who might comprehend my post-travel blues.

After being a nomad for over ten years, I’ve been lucky sufficient to produce my own neighborhood of travel lovers with this website.

And today, I want to broaden this neighborhood as well as take what we have on the internet as well as bring it into the genuine world.

So I’m delighted to reveal the introduce of The Nomadic Network!

It’s this website’s in-person meetup initiative.

The Nomadic Network (TNN for short) will be a worldwide neighborhood of travel enthusiasts who support as well as influence one one more to travel better, cheaper, as well as longer. Whether it’s a short jaunt to a close-by city or an indefinite round-the-world trip, the neighborhood will be there to assist anybody who wishes to (and likes to) travel.

Years ago, we did a trial run of these events. I satisfied so numerous incredible travelers at these meetups, as well as the one thing I kept hearing was exactly how you wanted these type of events occurred much more regularly.

Well, now we’re bringing them back!

Erica, whom you may have understood as my right-hand lady over the last six years, will helm this new initiative. She’ll be working on it full-time!

How will The Nomadic Network work?

We’re building in-person chapters all around the world. regional chapters will satisfy consistently to share stories, trade advice, do activities together, as well as hold events. We’re producing a area for people to satisfy travelers in their city (even if they or you are just passing through) as well as type friendships as well as bonds. Mixers, picnics, brunches, presentations, professional panels — anything that gets you influenced to travel more!

This set of events will be neighborhood mixers where we’ll satisfy as well as get to understand each other. If you’re based in these cities or will be there when we launch, join us:

DC – Tuesday, February 11

Seattle – Monday, February 17

Austin – Tuesday, February 18

Fort Lauderdale – Wednesday, February 19

Portland – Wednesday, February 19

San Francisco – Thursday, February 20

Los Angeles – Sunday, February 23

Detroit – Monday, February 24

Dublin, Ireland – Monday, February 24

San Diego – Monday, February 24

Boston – Monday, February 24

London – Tuesday, February 25

Chicago – Tuesday, February 25

NYC – Thursday, March 5

Portland – Thursday, March 19

(NOTE: These are just a few of the very first events! We’re going to be doing much more events as time goes on. We’ll be in the Midwest, other parts of Canada, the world, etc. This is just the very first few! If you don’t see a destination, don’t worry! Our goal is to be everywhere!  You can discover our total listing of upcoming events here.)

Events are $10 (to assist cover costs)! Plus, you can bring a buddy for totally free (so if you split the costs it’s $5 per person!)

How Can You be a part of TNN?

There are a few easy ways!

1. go to one of our events!
If you can come to one of our events, please do. You can discover the full listing here.

2. apply to lead your regional chapter
We requirement assist leading these TNN chapters. Erica (our events Director) as well as I will assist with the booking of venues, contacting guest speakers, rentingmicrophones as well as equipment, managing attendee registration, as well as assisting with as well as paying for anything we can.

But we requirement eyes, ears, as well as leaders on the ground. If you want to discover much more about ending up being one of our chapter leaders (including in the cities we are introducing in the listing above), click this link as well as submit your application. We’ll be in touch!

3. Volunteer at an event
If being a leader isn’t your thing however you’d like to volunteer your time during the events, awesome! We’ll requirement lots of support to get these chapters up as well as running. Just shoot us an email as well as we’ll get back to you.

4. join our new neighborhood website
If you want to assist produce a user-friend site for this new community, all you requirement to do is go to The Nomadic Network’s site as well as produce a quick traveler profile. It only takes two minutes to produce your log-in as well as profile. then you can join a chapter, discover events near you, poke around the existing content, as well as indication up for in-person meetups. then send us all of your comments so we can get it working very smoothly.

(This is only the very first draft of the site so there are great deals of kinks to straighten out before we completely introduce it as well as make it the center of The Nomadic Network world.)

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Creating a chapter-based organization is a big undertaking, however we’re extremely thrilled to get started. It’s been on our listing of things to produce for a long time now as well as we’re lastly doing it! This is going to take our neighborhood to the next level! It will take a long time to get all the events up as well as running however I believe we’re off to a strong start.

So get prepared to satisfy everybody IRL! ?
 

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