Michelle & Joel Hartz
Travel Bloggers
We're Joel & Michelle aka The Wandering Hartz. We’re digital nomad travel bloggers currently traveling the world seeking new experiences, adventures, and satisfying our curiosity and wanderlust.
Travel has been a shared love ours since before we even met. Both of us have some of our fondest memories from family vacations in our youth. Michelle even moved to Ireland for a summer in her early 20’s and Joel had driven across the U.S. and visited 16 states prior to enlisting in the Air Force. When we both met Michelle was actually a travel agent!
Fast forward 11 years of saving and frugality so we could travel to places like Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Czech Republic, and Hawaii. Then came 2019.
2019 saw a lot of changes, personally and professionally for us both.
Michelle unexpectedly lost her marketing job in commercial real estate and found herself quickly transitioning into self-employment.
Joel’s work as a film and video producer meant that his “office” was his laptop and his smart phone. His focus had shifted to him producing more film projects with a travel component, taking him to different parts of the United States and beyond.
With both of us now working from home, we quickly had the realization that this was going to be our new normal. It became quite evident we didn’t need to stay locked into one location any longer.
After a lot of discussions, questions, research, and evaluating our financial situation from every angle, we made the decision to sell our house, nearly everything we own and set out living a more minimalist nomadic lifestyle.
So how do we travel now? We prefer slow travel which allows us the opportunity to get acquainted with the local culture, meet new friends and explore the area. This also helps us provide authentic and useful travel tips and advice to our audience both on wanderinghartz.com and our YouTube channel. We love to travel and to share our experiences and hopefully even inspire others to think a little bit differently about how to live and travel deeper.
Since we started our journey we have had a ton of roadblocks due to the pandemic but we keep pushing through and are finally exploring beyond our home county again!
