Posts Tagged ‘Trausner’
Brazilian Culture Clashes Under the Hood 🇧🇷
This post offers a glimpse into my forthcoming travel memoir after three years of cultural yin and yang across Brazil and the rest of South America. Any suggestions for publishers? Contact me! We stopped at a red light, where a man with two kids hesitated at the curb. He tilted his head and mouthed…
Read MoreTax Benefits of Foreign-Owned Single-Member US LLC for Non-Residents 🇺🇸
Are you a non-resident looking to take advantage of the many tax benefits of forming a US LLC (Limited Liability Company)? With a territorial tax system like Paraguay, establishing a foreign-owned single-member LLC can be a lucrative opportunity for your business. In this blog post, we’ll explore the advantages of forming a US LLC and…
Read MoreDas weltgrößte Seilbahnnetz in der welthöchsten Hauptstadt – La Paz, Bolivien 🚠🇧🇴
Wie verbessert man das öffentliche Verkehrsnetz einer Stadt, wenn diese Stadt ganz enge Straßen hat, sehr dicht bebaut ist, und auf 4000 Meter liegt? Die Rede ist von La Paz. Wusstest du, dass La Paz der höchste Regierungssitz der Welt ist, und dass die Stadt mit Hilfe einer österreichischen Firma das weltweit dichteste…
Read MoreSleeping in the car in the world’s biggest salt desert – SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia 🇧🇴
Spending a night in our car in the world‘s biggest salt desert! Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia at almost freezing temperatures was the most extreme adventure we‘ve had in our two years of non-stop travel! At first Paul and I were disagreeing on whether we should spend the night in our car or just visit…
Read MoreOur invitation to the Austrian Embassy in Brasília 🇧🇷
About ten weeks into our stay in Brazil we received an interesting message. The Austrian ambassador invited us to dinner at the embassy in Brasília. Despite having traveled in Brazil for almost nine months within the last two years, we had never seen the capital of Brazil. Brasília is located in the middle of the…
Read MoreCrossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway by Car in 11 Days 🇧🇷
Crossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway has been a dream of ours ever since we started our journey through South America in 2020. Eleven days of driving with mostly no cell phone reception. (Disclaimer: All the photos you see in this blog post are screenshots of my Youtube Video which I’ll put in the end.) That…
Read MoreHow Tulum helped me become a water rat (and a PADI open water diver) ☀️🤿💦
How I became a PADI open water diver in Tulum: “Going to the beach” for me so far meant chilling on the beach and looking at the water. Not necessarily going inside, and I always had many good reasons for it: “My eyes burn from the salt water.” “I don’t want my hair to…
Read MoreDon’t fall for these tourist scams in Playa del Carmen❗️🇲🇽
Playa del Carmen is one of the most popular and touristy towns on Mexico’s Caribbean shoreline. If you enjoy a lively town, you will love it there. But don‘t fall for these common tourist scams! I can sum up our stay in Playa del Carmen in three major points: Aggravating taxi drivers (they…
Read MoreThe island of Cozumel during the hurricane 🇲🇽
Oh boy – what a week! We spent the last couple of nights on Cozumel, an island off the coast of Playa del Carmen. And since we’re now digging the island life, visiting another island seemed like a good idea.😁 Cozumel is bigger than the last island we stayed on (Isla Mujeres), so…
Read MoreThe hardship of trying to find a place to stay in the Caribbean 🇲🇽
As announced in my last post, we were going to move from the west coast of Mexico to the Caribbean coast, with first stop in Cancun. Long story short, we did not like Cancun 1. 😆🤷🏻♀️ The crappiest hotel in the Caribbean ? Not only did our hotel overbook and we had…
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