We are Meg and Tom a happy couple in our early thirties, who were previously living in Brisbane, Australia but sold everything to travel in We are now pursuing a life as Location Independent Professionals - In plain English, we work online to earn money with the freedom to choose where we work from.
You can check out our blog at fivedollartraveller
Before we became digital nomads, Tom was - and still is, on occasion - a professional musician with over 8 years experience working weddings, functions, lounges and international cruise ships. Take a look at Tom's Musician site.
Meg was a Travel Agent specialising in cruise ship sales, (a job she landed after also working entertainment for an international cruise line - any guesses how we met?).
Recently we have spent a lot of time couchsurfing around Asia and always especially loved spending time at homes that had pets. Some of them had some awesome personalities, and were happy to give us poor, cuddle deprived travellers some affection ;-).
We both grew up with pets and miss not having them whilst on the road.
Megsy has a 9 year old cat, Tamika, in Australia that she rescued from an animal shelter when Tamika was 5 years old. She lives with Meg's parents and we often enjoy conversations with the whole family - Tamika included. Butch, a beagle cross, has been in Meagen's family for 8 years and we have often looked after him whilst house sitting for them. Before Tamika and Butch there was Tabbatha (a tabby cat, of course) and Jet (border collie).
Tom grew up with many cats in the family. Pippin, Spot (yes, Spot was a cat - my brother was responsible for the naming!), Cleo, were all rescue cats from the RSPCA in the UK. Tom's father was always a "home grown" is best sort of guy. As such Tom gained an education in taking care of all the fruit and veg growing.