Circa 4 p.m., pretty much anything sounds better than staring at your office computer screen.
For instance, traveling the world — working when you feel like it, how you feel like it, and with a view to rival any Instagrammer's best shot. Or maybe even putting your job on hold (or leaving it altogether) to soak up experiences as you pass through.
If you ask the people below, that life is not only possible, but affordable. Here's how real people who spend their lives traveling from city to country to continent make it work without spending a fortune.
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Matt Gibson runs a business from Ban Phe, Thailand.
In 2004, Gibson left his native British Columbia to move to Taiwan, in hopes of quickly paying off his student loans.
Teaching English and working only 18 hours a week, he was able to eliminate them in a matter of months.
Today, he lives in Ban Phe, Thailand, where he says his living costs are about $1,000 a month. He earns $3,000-$5,000 through his website, Xpat Matt, and his marketing company for travel brands, Xpat Media.
"Like many travel bloggers, I live a pretty lean lifestyle," he told Business Insider. "In most places living abroad, it's not very expensive — $1,000 a month goes pretty far. I've been saving money pretty regularly for the past couple of years. My day-to-day is pretty inexpensive, but sometimes I'll splurge on trips."
When he isn't visiting places like Sri Lanka and Bhutan, Gibson works from home across the street from the beach, where he goes for a run or a swim nearly every day.
Jonathan Look retired at 50 and sold all of his possessions to live a 'vagabond life.'
Look retired from his job as an air traffic controller at age 50 to spend 10 years traveling the world.
He started in Xcalak, a tiny village on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, and then spent seven months high in the mountains of southern Mexico in the town of San Cristobal de las Casas. After a few month in the US, he moved to Siem Reap, Cambodia, then Chiang Mai, Thailand. He's spent time in Bali, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Bhutan, Canada, Chile, China, Guatemala, Malaysia, Peru, and Vietnam.
"My base living expenses are less than 20% of what they were back in the states when I was looking for meaning in the things I bought and consumed," Look writes on Next Avenue.
You can follow his adventures on his website, Life Part 2.
Arjen Ulrich spent six months walking from his hometown of Alkmaar, the Netherlands, to New York City.
After visiting New York City in 2013, Ulrich made a plan to walk 3,200 miles from the Netherlands back to New York, covering as much ground on foot as possible.
Walking a maximum of 25 miles a day might not sound like a dream, but on a budget of $24 a day, Ulrich was able to see Belgium, France, the UK, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the US on foot.
"Hitchhiking through the north of Iceland from Seyðisfjörður (east) to Reykjavik (west) resulted in one of the best experiences on this trip so far," he told Business Insider. "With still more than 350km to go I got a ride from a Canadian guy who was spending his three short days in Iceland by driving around the whole country, only to stop to take pictures or for a short nap in the car. I joined him through the night, saw the sunset and sunrise at 2:30am and slept outside on a piece of grass, finding the sun high up in the sky warming up my face as I woke up at 9am. That was freedom in near-perfect form!"
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