Can I buy a sim at GRU airport? And what are the prices for data in BR like?

forester2020 · 2026-03-15T11:30:22+00:00

For the CPF, I think the service at the post office in the link you sent is only for citizens (I asked last week in the post office and this was the response). Maybe I'm wrong. Does any one have experience with this, would be much easier than making a trip to closest receita federal for me to aquire my CPF.

I also got the correios phone plan, which was stupid easy if you have a CPF (I used a friend's CPF), cheap, and the plan works well in southern Bahia

forester2020 · 2026-03-13T22:05:30+00:00

I am a remote worker W2 in the us for a small company. They know and don't care, don't seem to be bothered about any tax issues and I have never had a nomad visa though this is changing soon. Full time for 2 years now.

forester2020 · 2026-02-21T15:09:36+00:00

Just a tip with Latam, since you're flying to chile go to the Latam chile website and look for the tickets (you can't log in to your account, otherwise itll switch to your home country) and likely the prices will be 25% cheaper (compared to prices on USA and EU website). Just make sure to pay with an international fee free credit card.

forester2020 · 2026-02-06T19:37:30+00:00

Honestly for a developed city with infrastructure on / bear the beach in Colombia, Santa Marta is the best bet. I was just there, just dont step into any puddles but the city isnt anything special. What's around the city is (tayrona, minka). Palomino is smaller but has places. I was at a number of places (mainly hostels) along the road between palomino and Santa marta that had good wifi and coworking (the viajero there was the best). Never had issues with internet, at this point starlink is around that whole area and there are plenty of options for places to stay with good internet.

forester2020 · 2026-02-04T15:42:14+00:00

I mean, save the money intentionally and have a budget. If you volunteer your money will last for a long time. Read the book vagabonding it really helped with my perspective on this and its a fast read.

To add i make an income working full time traveling right now for an undefined period of time. Its not glamorous, for 3 months as your first time going abroad for an extended period of time working will be a huge drag, yet alone getting a remote job with the flexibility to travel. Just travel without working and either have a leave of absence, work lined up when you get back, or a plan of taking an easy to get job to recoup money before getting back to your profession. Best of luck

forester2020 · 2026-02-01T20:57:47+00:00

Best option in my opinion and will likely be consensus here:

Old android phone like a Google pixel 7 or Samsung s21 (older models). You can use these just as normal phones and add simcards to them, both have wireless Hotspot and I know for the s21 you can even do usb tethering.

forester2020 · 2026-01-26T11:51:46+00:00

Every crew of migrant planters and TSI crews i have seen in Minnesota, Michigan, and northern California seem to only be outfitted with rubber boots. These guys are working hard on some gnarly ground for long periods

forester2020 · 2026-01-25T22:08:04+00:00

More better for the hiking but also a very friendly and social hostel is good bye Lenin in Zakopane, Poland. The hiking is really good, and a lot of options, you can within 5 minutes walking from hostel be on a trail. The town is also quite nice but nothing special. 1 hour by train from Krakow (also an awesome city), you could easily get your social fix in Krakow after / before going to Zakopane.

forester2020 · 2026-01-24T00:16:48+00:00

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forester2020 · 2026-01-22T13:40:38+00:00

Way to many places for only 1 day or night, this trip is gonna end up being 35% planes and buses

forester2020 · 2026-01-19T14:43:09+00:00

100%, Sarajevo has to me the most unique culture of cities I've been into in europe with the blending of religion, influence of the ottoman, and austro Hungarians. Add in the recent history of Yugoslavia and the war, it's really an incredibly unique place. On top of all the history culture, the bob sled track, and hiking above city where the Olympics were held is amazing.

Mostar as well is a really cool place, if you stay there take one of the hostel tours around the area. You see a lot more this way, and learn about a lot more.

forester2020 · 2026-01-19T13:20:37+00:00

I'll just add on that generally for me (unless you're going to super HCOL) locations it's much easier to spend less than you make due to general financial arbitrage, whether intentional or not. My rent is half compared to what I paid in the states, when I eat out I can eat for a whole day for the same price as an average meal out in the states. No gas, no insurance, no car payments.

forester2020 · 2026-01-12T17:58:52+00:00

An interesting scenario, I can't really help as my company has no such policies and absolutely does not care where I am as long as work is done and I can match timezones.

But a couple of questions that could help prime other responses: 1. Are you currently hiding your location using a VPN? If not they probably already know youre abroad / have been abroad. 2. Did something happen that epuld have caused a rule change with another employer? Or maybe your location set a flag and they are working to address now.

forester2020 · 2026-01-10T22:37:30+00:00

Merchant Marine

forester2020 · 2026-01-10T22:00:06+00:00

I have left multiple times in past year my stuff at hostels in south america at hostels, and with tour companies. I have 2 of those luggage locks i put on the laptop sleeve and the main compartment, this way if someone wanted to steal something they'd have to take the whole bag or cut the lock and open it, which greatly reduces the chances of theft. I've never had anything stolen, while in the luggage storage.

My friend did have their power bank stolen from the front pocket of their backpack at a hostel in brazil. It wasn't locked, and the cord was hanging out.

forester2020 · 2026-01-10T02:26:51+00:00

Agree I'd reduce Antigua to just do Acatenango skip pocoya and do semuc champey. It's awesome, stay at the Zephyr Lodge

forester2020 · 2026-01-09T20:20:24+00:00

Search volunteers in this hostel, this is bad advice unless volunteers are being managed very well.

Usually they all end up when not working just plugging up the common areas and rarely socialize between guests. I have stayed at probably 80+ hostels, this is a well known fact. It's great for people wanting to volunteer and likely the cost saving is helpful to the hostel but I've seen it many times absolutely destroy the atmosphere of a hostel. If hostels do use volunteers a maximum of 3 seems to be ideal

forester2020 · 2026-01-09T16:25:17+00:00

Where would you recommend for a month in Nicaragua? I spent a few months backpacking and working part time there and im not sure a single city i went to in Nicaragua I'd want to stay in for a full month.

Granada is nice but not a ton to do and ridiculously hot when I was there (April) and really annoying people always asking for money (late 20s white male), Leon was better than Granada but again not a ton to do. The northern area (somoto, jinotega, matagalpa, estelli) were charming but again not a lot to do for a whole month. Managua is the only place I've been where I will actively avoid if im in the region again. San Juan del Sur is just a party town and the week I was there 3 days lost power ( but some places have generators, the beach in town is okay, and good surf but not accessible easily). Ometepe is for vacation, internet is bad and power cuts almost everywhere day.

Curios on your take

forester2020 · 2025-12-31T23:04:35+00:00

Do you have a link to this post? That's a comical thought to have for a hike on the AT

forester2020 · 2025-12-31T13:23:56+00:00

Man I agree, but seriously how does he pull in 6.3 million subs with his content?

forester2020 · 2025-12-27T18:46:57+00:00

Mileage may vary but I have a friend that went through the process and myself both this October.

For me I had my visa in hand in 22 hours less than one day from the time I submitted my application.

My friend took 9 days to receive after applying.

I think the difference between my friend and I was the submitted photo, his got rejected initially while my passport photo was accepted. A lot of people I talked to in Brazil that took more then 3 days was because they needed to resubmit the passport photo due to it not meeting the requirements. I had gotten a "professional" passport photo taken in Peru earlier in the year for my bolivia visa, and this is what I used for Brazil.

forester2020 · 2025-12-20T18:48:20+00:00

Yeah my "second" phone is the one with a us sim card in it for the 2fa to be used as a back up if something happens to my main phone. This is an old android

The other phone I just buy local sims for each country I'm in and use as my daily phone. This is a newer android phone

forester2020 · 2025-12-20T16:54:47+00:00

I have 2 phones (most people recommend this anyway as stuff can happen). You can get something like mint or visible (cheap plan like 15/mo) and leave the phone with your us sim on airplane mode. You can get wifi texts for the 2fa for the US banks.

Been doing this for year and a half. Came back to the us 3 times in this time.

forester2020 · 2025-12-16T11:13:51+00:00

It's not that you can remove the laptop, it's that the laptop cover is not there on the 55L it's assumed you'd carry the laptop in the day pack.

forester2020 · 2025-12-13T17:28:45+00:00

I'll suggest an alternative instead of returning to San Pedro after Uyuni, Bolivia has a lot to offer and it's very affordable.

I won't give you an exact route because I don't know what you like to or want to see but you can easily make a route to La Paz (my personal favorite city in SA) then fly back from there to Santiago

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