How to Pack for a Working Vacation
After years of uncomfortable and stressful experiences on planes and in airports, I never want to fly with a commercial airline again for a domestic leisure trip. I'd like to avoid it for work too, so when I paid a recent visit to PCMag’s office in New York City, I volunteered to make the journey by train.
This trip was timely because I've started exploring digital nomadism in both my personal and professional lives. Simply put, digital nomads are people who work while they travel. Many globe-trotting digital nomads stick to internet-based jobs to work wherever they can find a Wi-Fi connection.
Though I primarily write all of my words from my home in Atlanta, I am not a digital nomad—yet. I plan to make use of my company's "work-from-anywhere" policy over the next year or so to weave extra travel opportunities into my life's dense tapestry. I know it won't be easy, though. I don't enjoy the faster and less expensive forms of travel (driving and flying), and I'm not alone. Recently, I asked my Mastodon followers what was keeping them from becoming digital nomads, and some replies were about finding alternate travel methods.
Traveling aboard an Amtrak train is much slower than a plane ride, and much more expensive than a road trip, but it's an enjoyable way to get work done as a digital nomad. The trip from Atlanta's Amtrak station to New York City's Moynihan Train Hall took roughly 16 hours. For the departure leg of my journey, I reserved a spot in a bedroom in the sleeping car on the train. My return trip was still in the sleeping car, but in a roomette, which, as the name suggests, is smaller than a bedroom.
16 hours is plenty of time to get in some work (and sleep). After the full round trip, I had plenty of time and
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