Tips: The cloud is your friend. Try to keep important things available via internet. If you can take family, SO or friends with you, it helps mitigate the lon

Tips: The cloud is your friend. Try to keep important things available via internet. If you can take family, SO or friends with you, it helps mitigate the loneliness factor people are talking about here. Also: online forums can be a good way to keep in touch with a consistent group of people as well. As others are saying, traveling a lot can seriously cut into work time. So, one important trick is to ruthlessly cut expenses. Get a virtual mail address. It doesn't solve everything, but it is a nice thing to have.