[motters]

It sounds nice if you can pull it off, but on the occasions where I've been continually moving from place to place I've found it much harder to actually get anything done. Continual travel adds cognitive and other entropic overheads which deplete your mental and energy real estate.

[stevenp]

I spent a month in Argentina last year thinking I was going to work on a personal project and got absolutely nothing done, so I can definitely relate. The distractions of foreign places definitely add to the cognitive overhead.

[jen_h]

We've done this pretty successfully, actually, for going on two years - and you're right about the continual travel planning being depleting...but new places are also really energizing...the key is making sure the length of the stay coincides with your release cycles. So, stay somewhere a month or more for a really big push, two weeks for maintenance and bug fix releases. This gives another fun advantage: release code names very easy to choose/remember. :)

Also - make sure you've got a nice view. We've found that our productivity increases substantially when we've got something nice to look at. Building product in basements is depressing and can really drain your energy/creativity/purpose. There's something about the ocean or the desert that can really drive you forward.

[mike_esspe]

Yes, i have the same problem. Many times i thought, that i will build something while traveling, but that never happened :)

Though as far as i understood, they solved this with going out as tourists only on weekends.

[jurjenh]

I have this exact problem even without the travel... A couple of days at home without continuous jobs / tasks needing to get done. Great, I can finally get onto doing some work for project X!

Except it never happens. Seems my motivation / drive is so depleted that the best way to use the days off is to actually rest. Then I feel great (although generally a little miffed that I didn't get anything done on project X) and for the next several weeks I seem to have more focus and be able to get my everyday things done more effectively.

Sometimes the best way to utilise a break is exactly that - have a (complete) break and just rest the mind - I find some physical exercise (surfing) helpful with that too.

[hetaoblog]

agree to some extent, spending time at home for long days will reduce productivity for me...

[nomadznu]

Yes we often sticked to the nine to five work template, doing the fun stuff in weekends and vacations. And off course, when you take the moped after work to go and see that sunset, that's also heaven for a few hours :)

Again GTD is a good way to make your way through work.

Also: when you're on the road, you won't need to go and see family and friends. You'll miss them. But a lot of time is free to do other stuff.

[nomadznu]

For us the solution was to rent an co-office space in Argentina (a great one btw: urbanstation.co.ar) In Thailand and South Africa this was less of a problem: in those places we had a small spot to work and we often went to internetcaffees in CapeTown, doing the real work at home, disconnected from the web. Which is immediately a good trick: disconnect from the internet and you'll get most of your work done: prepare work, mails etc. Then connect, send everything, get the mails, and disconnect again. GTD and sticking to it is a large part of making this work, otherwise you're or online on Facebook all the time, or working too much :)