A traveling coders life

I never did an introductory so thought I should share what kind of life I lived a year back.

My name is Snorre Lothar von Gohren Edwin, and i'm a coder by heart and profession. I love making things, and if I can use my computer to make them on the internet, I'm utterly happy! But i'm also a vivid traveler and have been around the world! And last year I got the chance to travel and code! What a perfect combination that is! I think everybody should be able to do a really long travel at some point in their life, either if they are lucky enough to work at the same timer or not, doesnt matter. It's the traveling that matters!

I really miss that life and seek inspiration and motivation to do it again, so if you do some kind of remote work, let me know with a comment!

I was lucky enough to get a position so I worked 50% for a company in Norway, having some time off while still having time to really experience the country I was in. I was working with some internal systems so I didn't have to worry about customers policies and stuff.

But I started my trip freeskiing in the canadian mountains, Revelstoke to be precise, as the first picture shows. It was the perfect combination, skii 4-5 hours a day, work 5-6 hours. That alone could have been the perfect life, except that the winter doesnt last forever, unless you go to the other side of the world!

From there i went on to do some motorbiking in California. I rode from LA to San Fransisco and back again in about two weeks, stopping and just enjoying life! I traveled around and did some coding at different places

Beach coding

High class hollywood coding

Google inspiration coding

From there my trip continued to Australia where I went roadtripping and other fun things. My friend was living in Australia so I took my vacation there and didnt code for about three weeks. I traveled on to Japan to experience the country of mysteries. I got to say that Japan truly is a great country! The people, the culture and the food is awesome! But I found some cool places to code there aswell.

Grotto coding

Hiroshima coding

Maybe there was some radioactivity that could inspire my coding in hiroshima.

The Japan trip had to end because of visa expiration so I continuet to Vietnam where I rode around on a motorbike for about 3 weeks. I is very difficult to get some work done when you are riding on your motorbike for 4-5 hours a day and have to experience the place you have arrived aswell. But I did get to do some

Jungle river coding

Here I actually got into some proper visa troubles, because I never got to renew my visa I had to bail the country. I found me some cheap tickets to Bangkok so I could get out. But unfortunatley I was 2 days late for the airport. They took me to the side, in a police room and told me that what I was doing was illegal. I tried to apologize and tell them that I had tried to renew my visa, but nobody could help me. So they decided to fine me the amount of Vietnamese money I had on me, and let me leave the country. I decided to go to the other side of the world, to be able to say that I had circled the earth. I ordered some tickets to South America from Bangkok, and I was lucky to find some cheap ones. I arrived in Brazil and lived there for about a month, traveling around and coding.

Coding at the end of the world

Coding on top of the world

I hope I provided some inspiration and hope to find some myself to be able to go out and about to do this again!

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