We made it Costa Rica this is a place I've been wanting to visit for years
it's a place filled by jungle and greenery and over the next few weeks as
we've been traveling and preparing for this trip I really wanted to kind of
shoot and start a new series of videos while I was out here
that will really show you guys the behind the scenes and more importantly
the journey of how to actually work from anywhere that you guys go in this video
series I think I want to call it the minimalistic entrepreneur video series
and it'll be posted on here regularly I try to get at least one video per week
and definitely communicate with me over the community tab where we'll continue
to cover topics that you guys want to see more of
so as we landed we literally packed up three bags that's all we had for this
trip looks like a punching bag we said all right we're gonna take three bags
one's gonna be a tech bag and then two bags are gonna be our personal items
meaning our clothes and everything that we're gonna need for three months all
right that's three months of travel not just like a weekend getaway this is like
three months living out of a different country experiencing a whole new culture
and I think that's what really helps us all continue to develop if you're new to
this channel chances are you landed on a video about starting a clothing line or
starting your own brand and I'll continue to publish those videos and the
reason that I started this channel in case you not really sure about what's
going on is I started up this channel after spending years of learning
everything the hard way how to actually start up your brand how to raise capital
how to do everything that every entrepreneur has a question about I did
it all the hard way and I wanted to share my experiences my tips and the
resources that I found along the way in order to help everyone get started and
not have to go through the same mistakes so over the years we continue to build
and develop our own brand me and my partners have made it on national TV
young entrepreneurs of the year and much more and we'll continue sharing that
experience and sharing everything that we continue learning over the years so
in this new video series I definitely want to cover more about like what
actually takes to travel and to still work while you're doing your you know
get to getting to experience something different you know I'm from Las Vegas
and it's freaking hot and it's a desert it's dry and this stuff here is amazing
so in this video what I want to show you guys is I actually want to show you what
I packed in so like what bag I used to actually come here and and then there's
a little cat here that keeps interrupting but yes I will show you
guys the process of that and I'll show you guys where I'm staying how I ended
up getting this amazing amazing property all for less than what I was paying in
the US alright so less than the rent I was
paying in the u.s. we're getting it out here alright so I want to show you guys
the bag that I used and then how it all works out and pros and cons of traveling
on a budget as well as minimalistic aliy meaning not packing everything you need
and only bring in the essentials so this is the spot this is a spot that we ended
up going with it's got an amazing view in the back beautiful windows see the
entire jungle it's got a pool and this is gonna be our primary work area so
this bag which I showed you guys is essentially where I carry all my
equipment this is where all of our equipment for me and my wife is going to
be it was actually carried in alright and the reason that I went with this
dual style of bag even though I do see some cons now with it the reason that I
went with these two is because I didn't want to check any laptops or hard drives
or drones I didn't want to leave that at up to TSA (transportation safety administration) or to the bag carriers to
check-in for me cuz then as you know they just throw the bags out chances
were my shit was gonna get broken so I I got this
Dule bag it's called the Osprey the ozone duplex 65 and what it does is it's
a dual carrying bag I'll set this set this down here for you guys to see all
right so like I was saying this bag allows you to carry all the stuff that
you'll need to bring and actually keep safe all right so we had over seven
thousand dollars worth of electronics in here from a drone to two MacBooks to
hard drives to storage to camera equipment like literally there's a lot
of gear that I had to bring on this trip in order to bring you guys along with me
but at the same time get some work done right so this bag right here I give it a
7 out of 10 recommendation meaning that I really really enjoyed how it worked I
loved the idea but when it comes to actually carrying it like if you want to
if you have to travel through the airports very long trips this bag gets a
little heavy and if you're gonna carry a lot of shit like I did excuse my
language if you're gonna carry a lot of stuff like I did it doesn't work like it
should so essentially this bag is supposed to connect to this bag here and
it's supposed to allow you to carry one big backpack but that's not the case
with this if you're gonna overfill it and I was talking to customer service to
figure out what the ideal weight recommendations were and they said forty
pounds and I think this bag alone is like fifty he's got two laptops on a
bunch of electronics and this was about 40 so I think I was carrying about
almost a hundred pounds worth of weight on these two bags there's no way I was
gonna be able to clip it with one big bag but when it did allow me to do is it
allowed me to carry it as a duffel so I was able to to put a backpack on and
then carry this as a duffel so then that allowed me to use this as my personal
item and this my carry-on luggage right so it was a
little as a little sketchy because this was a little big and actually didn't fit
underneath the it didn't actually fit underneath the seat
but luckily since my wife was with me and she has her own carry-on she was
able to count it as her carry-on so that's why I give it a 7 out of 10
because I thought it would fit all of my gear and allow me to just has a one
single travel or make it and not have to worry about anything
I think if it was a shorter trip if it was like a weekend trip or like a few
days it would have been perfect now what a given it a 10 out of 10 but since this
is a long travel and I needed to bring everything that was important and
valuable to me so I wouldn't need it and I wouldn't have to ship anything in I
give it a 7 out of 10 for an extended period of trip meaning like over a month
all right so essentially how this bag works and the reason I really love it
and they've got such a high rating is it is built really really durable so Osprey
did a great job this is not a sponsored video Osprey is a bag company and as you
guys know we also make backpacks so I appreciated their craftsmanship alright
so just out of the box this retails for 220 I think I got it on discount at REI
for like 195 so yeah there's still a 200 dollar bag but it's two backpacks and
it's 30 it's really stirring sturdy and durable so I see the craftsmanship and I
see the value in it and if you're going to be traveling with 7,000 dollars worth
of equipment you got to know when you can be cheap and when you have to spend
some money alright so in my case I put $200 down to protect 7,000 dollars worth
of equipment alright so how this works this is one of them so this is a
backpack this is a duffel doesn't have any
backpack straps so you can only use it as a duffel bag if it's not clipped onto
this backpack and what I carry here just so you guys can see is we have all of
our equipment here so I got this is where little organizing pouch guys if
you guys are going to be traveling for extended stays definitely highly
recommend that you organize your your cables all right so these were two
organizational pouches that we actually carried our tablets or Kindles or you
guys will see once I break that down this is my wife's laptop and then of
course bring in my planner got to bring my planner because we're here to make
amazing things happen and this planner here was important and hard drives
making sure that we got the hard drives that we needed some more on here I love
carrying a lot of actual keyboard I think this is this is a big win when it
comes to working especially when it comes to economics you know a lot of you
guys probably watching aren't very sore you're probably under 25 so most of you
guys so you don't really feel much pain I didn't feel any pain when I was
working back in a day and now that I'm getting a little older looking at my
laptop like this for like four hours really hurts or even you know we work
sometimes 12-hour days so yes it's it's important that you elevate your screen
so with that being said I also carry this thing here which I really highly
review I really really recommend if you guys need something ergonomics or
on-the-go this thing here essentially I'll show you guys how it works but
essentially what you do with it is you carry your you stand it up it's like a
laptop stand you stand it up grab your laptops
yes my laptop's in here too and then you literally put it in here do you have to
open it before you put it in here and I'll check that out
this is your laptop elevated so now I could literally work this this thing
right here I think was like 20 bucks and I bought one that was like 60 before it
was a steel frame one it was like really nice and it matched a laptop the MacBook
but honestly this thing right here works just as good or better than those if
you're not gonna put your hands up here so I always carry a lot an actual
keyboard and I it's a wireless keyboard so whenever I get my setup and I'll show
you guys at the end how our setup is gonna look for this house but yes this
is important to have alright so yes that allows you to put your laptop anywhere
and it's a collapsible span so it's freaking awesome this is my wife's
keyboard and here this bag also has I got my mouse I'm old school love the
Logitech mouse care does amazing work for video editing and any type of
editing work that you got to do not a big fan of having to use a little
trackpad thing got the cables for the Chargers yeah flashlight it's always
important to get a flashlight from there this bag
yep and actually it has a little pocket here which is cool cuz what it allows
you to do is you can actually carry other stuff so like I got my little
anything that you got to get to fast so I was actually working at the airport
and stuff too I
on a layover flight we had like two hours before our next point into Costa
Rica so it was easy to literally just grab my laptop grab my keyboard and just
get set up at the airport it was awesome so that was one bag that was the
backpack side and like I mentioned these these cable things here these are called
be unique be myself I have all the cables in here to literally look very
fast trip you just grab everything that we had in the house threw it in here
because as you know whenever you're traveling regardless if you if you're
going on a three-month stay chances are you're still packing the day that you're
gonna leave and that was my case so we have to pack of everything that we could
I already kind of had a list and knew what I needed so I just literally packed
up and go so yes these are awesome really great to organize your cables and
now what I want to show you guys is the other bag this bag here is the is a
duffel side this doesn't really have all the bells and whistles that the other
one does it's just literally a duffel bag so it opens one way so how this one
works it's got a nice little this has got a nice little green thing this right
here was perfect for like all the miscellaneous stuff that I had to stuff
in last minute because we then fit in my wife's bag or in my other bag for
clothes so I got binoculars we're gonna be watching some birds so binoculars
were important I got the little GoPro stand for our travel through the jungles
and the forest and then some other battery cables they're packed up with
drone I know it's not the best way to pack up a drone but we were very limited
on space and I didn't want to break it if I uh you know the Box didn't fit so
yes don't feel me I have to pack up the in a duffel bag the drone was packed up
it arrives safely we get some cool drone shots then I actually packed up with a
tripod stand for the camera right now it's sitting on a Joby which was also
packed in here as well as that camera prepped in here and I actually just
decided to pack all my camera gear into a separate little mini camera organizer
the reason I did this was because this duffel bag was really cool on its own
and I didn't want to like customize the back interior and not be able to fit
other miscellaneous stuff plus I'll be able to easily if I ever wanted to just
take my camera equipment to make some videos or whatnot and I didn't want to
carry all this stuff I can just take this on the go which I thought was
really cool so this is just like a separate backpack and what I did here is
I have two cameras so there's two cameras in here there was the one that
I'm shooting on and then there's another one here and I got the tripod heads I
got a GoPro I've got a little b-roll g7x they got all the battery and equipment
lens cap some lenses as well as chargers and recording devices headphone cables
HDMI so all of the camera related accessories and camera gear was placed
in here which is lift up and place into the duffel that allowed me to keep my
eyes and make it very easy to know where all my gear was I didn't want any of
this to go underneath because you guys could see there's a lot of stuff that
went into those two bags and that's just a backpack alone so that fits in here
so now you guys know what could fit into this bag I'm gonna show you guys the
office setup that we got I think that's kind of important for you to have some
somewhere where you could work be as efficient or at least kind of or at the
maximum efficiency that you had before I know that there's gonna be limitations
based on you know wireless connections and whatnot and I'll kind of talk about
that as I'm starting to also run into that myself but I'll talk about that
I'll cover it but as you guys could see this is
so we got the laptops there don't set up Morlocks out there not a tablet because
I like looking Sunday message of this stuff phone calls hard drives and making
any videos for the Academy and make them off here drone then off to the side I
just got the bags that I showed you guys
though so there you have it guys this is our official workspace for the next
three months for the next few weeks who knows where we will go after this
place essentially the reason that we wanted to pack as light as we could is
so we could have the freedom to move to different parts whenever we desired so
as long as you have a good internet connection that's going to be key for
you guys you know being able to do the right research to have a good internet
connection in order to get established wherever you get set up I'll talk about
more of that stuff in the upcoming video so make sure you subscribe to this
channel you comment down the question maybe that you have about traveling or
Costa Rica or whatnot as I experienced it I'll be able to show it to you guys
head on over to my Instagram but before I cut off definitely want to get my
wife's opinion about what she thinks about this overall setup what do you say
go so she approves and yeah I think we found a great really great find in this
in this beautiful amazing house right in the jungle it's a little more humid than
I'm used to so if I'm sweating in the video it's because it's humid it's humid
it's not Vegas and it's not dry so yeah make sure you subscribe to this channel
for the next series of videos on minimalistic entrepreneur travel and
working from anywhere that you go all right I'll also link up the playlist
which I'll create as I create more of these types of videos it will be linked
right up in this area I think it's this area right here just go ahead and click
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guys on the next video like you know a scent
left this morning to come check out this rainforest and it is amazing so there
snakes out here so that's why she's got. From The Ground Up