Gay Travellers: Nomadic Boys

Gay couple Stefan and Sebastien have been travelling the world together since 2014 after leaving their lives in London. Nomadic Boys Blog was created as a platform to record their romantic adventures, writing about the different gay scenes and culinary discoveries.

For every place we visit, we like to make local gay friends to experience the culture and gay scene from their perspective. This inspired the Gay Stories section. We also try wherever possible to seek out and support local LGBT businesses, which is particularly important in countries with anti gay laws in place.
As a result, over the past 2 years, our blog gained a great deal of popularity, particularly in the gay community. We started to collaborate with hotel brands, tourism boards and speak at conferences to promote gay travel.
Nomadic Boys has now evolved to become our full time job…well, more than that – it has become our life: our baby!
Nomadic Boys is one of the best things to have come out from our relationship.

THEIR RELATIONSHIP 
Stefan and Sebastien first met in London’s GAY bar in February 2009.

On that fateful day, Stefan, a lawyer, was meeting with a colleague to discuss a job opportunity. Sebastien also happened to be there with his friends, celebrating his decision to leave London and move to Spain. Sebastien always had a weakness for good wine, jamon and Spanish looking footballers.

As their eyes fell on each other for the 1st time, it was definitely true love for both of them and that's when the journey started.

Sebastien didn’t move to Spain, instead remained with Stefan in London. Our relationship grew, they got our own place, settled down and developed a really happy and comfortable life in London.

TRAVEL STARTS
In June 2014 after a hectic long period of saving and planning the big trip to discover the world was set off.
After leaving London Nomadic Boys spent 18 months traveling as gay couples in asia

They started their journey with the Trans Siberian railway and travelled through:

• East Asia: Russia, Mongolia, China and Japan
• South Asia: Nepal, India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka
• Southeast Asia: Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

They then returned back home to Europe in early 2016 to spend time with families and friends, with a few side trips, like discovering the gay scene in Berlin and the Lou Queernaval in Nice.

Nomadic Boys have been travelling around Latin America since July 2016, starting South in gay Buenos Aires and slowly heading North through the Americas.

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Gay Travellers: TwoBadTourists

Two american gay couple from phoenix decide to explore the world without limitation. Taking it to the full advantage, the also like sharing their traveling life experience with others.

As a young gay couple, we have a unique perspective on travel. Whether it’s Pride hopping around Europe or traveling in Africa where gay rights are negligible, we are constantly exposed to new experiences and unfamiliar cultures. We enjoy sharing our insights from all we’ve done right and wrong and aim to provide valuable stories and travel advice. For us, travel is amazing and life changing and we want others to get a taste. Though many people don’t realize, travel is more achievable than they think and we want to prove that it’s also possible to do without spending a lot of money. We hope to inspire those who want to travel to actually do it and those who already do to travel more.

• HOW WE STARTED

The idea of TBT travel adventure started with a decision to leave their home in Chicago and move to California. Upon leaving, they would have to find new jobs after arriving to the west coast. That’s what sparked the thought: what’s the hurry to move and find new jobs immediately? Really, there wasn’t one as long as we could afford a break. Then they both knew exactly what the would want to do next: travel. Anywhere and everywhere.

• HOW WE DID IT

It was not easy to get to the financial state to travel for a year…it took nearly three years of planning. They both had decent jobs, but we were living in downtown Chicago – not cheap! But if we were serious about our goal, they had to save. In March of 2012 it was time to say goodbye to Chicago, the city they loved and with hated weather, to seize new opportunities abroad. They sold nearly everything we owned and took the plunge.

• WHO ARE WE?

Besides being married for 4+ years (together for 9+) TBT actually have individual personalities and stories. Here’s a bit about each of them:

Auston (left) and David (right) 

Auston grew up in Phoenix before escaping to Chicago in 2008. He worked as an engineer for six years and claims it was his idea for him and David to quit their jobs and travel. David insists the contrary is true but who’s to say at this point? Auston currently works part-time as a freelance engineer while traveling from his home base in Madrid. He’s the technical brain behind this blog and his ridiculous organization, travel savvy and financial planning has helped provide the ability to travel indefinitely.

David also grew up in Phoenix and moved to Chi-town in ’08. He worked as a medical technologist for a couple years before taking on the life of a vagabond. Currently he focuses on leeching off the money Auston makes through his freelance gig, though now he’s actually teaching English in Madrid. David is the creative brain behind TwoBadTourists focusing on the writing, photography, and videos.  Plus he’s extremely talented at complaining about Auston’s penny-pinching.

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