{"id":44733,"date":"2025-08-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44733"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:20:27","slug":"leaving-america-osprey-carry-on-residency-for-paying-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/leaving-america-osprey-carry-on-residency-for-paying-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving America\/Osprey Carry-on\/Residency for Paying Rent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><strong>Leaving America Podcast<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a limited series on TV, sometimes it\u2019s nice to listen to a podcast where you know there\u2019s an ending. The&nbsp;<em>Leaving America Podcast<\/em>&nbsp;is a 12-episode one from the person behind Deep Dive with Shawn Fettig and you can find it on whatever player you use or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1983649\/episodes\">directly here<\/a>. I make a few appearances in some of them, including the Latin America episode, but he covers some not-cheap places too like France and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Osprey Sojourn Shuttle Carry-on Suitcase<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWow, I&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;like this suitcase,\u201d my wife said when she used it for the first time on our most recent trip together. \u201cI\u2019m using this one from now on.\u201d That\u2019s saying something considering I used to run a travel gear blog and she\u2019s probably packed at least 15 different suitcases that I got as review samples. This one was the Osprey Sojourn Shuttle 22 with two Rollerblade-style wheels that can take on uneven surfaces, plus hidden padded backpack straps if you need to scale stairs or a gravel path. Compression straps help you keep the width in check for the overhead bin. As with all Osprey products, certainly not the cheapest, but guaranteed for life. Get it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cuEBAku\">on Amazon<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/osprey.pxf.io\/4GjXv1\">direct from the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Prepay Your Rent, Get a Visa<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve run across a lot of strange visa options out there, but this is a new one on me: pre-pay a year\u2019s worth of rent in Croatia and you can get a residency visa! This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalliving.com\/under-the-radar-european-visas\/\">came from&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalliving.com\/under-the-radar-european-visas\/\">International Living<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;so I\u2019ll just quote them. \u201cThe \u2018Croatian Apartment Visa,\u2019 as it\u2019s known, requires that you find residential property in the country and prepay rent for one year. If you can prove sufficient funds to support yourself, have health insurance covering your time in Croatia, and pass a criminal background check, you can stay in Croatia indefinitely, as long as you keep prepaying your annual rent. You can work remotely as long as your income is foreign-sourced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>New Amtrak Route<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s rare that you hear about a new train route in the USA, but one just opened that has been closed for 20 years: Amtrak&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afar.com\/magazine\/amtraks-mardi-gras-train-returns-new-orleans-to-gulf-coast\">between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama<\/a>. This connects the two longest-running Mardi Gras cities and stops at some other Gulf of Mexico towns along the way. That link goes to&nbsp;<em>Afar<\/em>&nbsp;magazine where you can also check out this article on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afar.com\/magazine\/most-scenic-amtrak-routes\">USA\u2019s most scenic train routes<\/a>. I was recently on one of them through upstate New York and it was terrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #168<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44734,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44733\/revisions\/44734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}