I was going to offer some financially critical tax advice (hint: the foreign earned income exclusion won't work for you) but . . . no comments on the blog, no contact info that I could find (maybe I am blind), and discussion of his plans are linked over to Facebook.

Kids these days.

I did a year like this in New Zealand. Changed my life for the better. Travel like this is great.

Too bad he shuts off -- rather than aggressively opens -- ways to communicate with the outside world on his blog.