I love traveling. So much so that I have been to a different city every month this year with the exception of this one. I always had this secret fantasy that someone over at the Travel Channel would discover me and I would become the next Samantha Brown, gallivanting all over the world, staying in posh hotels and eating at the best restaurants in a new city each week. This past January I got to experience living in a completely new place when I traveled to Alaska to produce a documentary project. I was there for three months, and being there for that amount of time really made me feel like I was a part of the community, I became ingrained into the lives of many amazing people.

A couple weeks ago I caught wind, via Twitter, about two men who are traveling the world who are trying to answer the question: What would you do if you could only spend ninety-one days in one place? With their blog: For91Days, Juergen Horn and Mike Powell are trying to answer that question with each destination they travel to. I caught up with Horn via phone in the midst of their ninety-one days in Savannah, Georgia having arrived a few weeks prior from their first destination Oviedo, Spain.

Powell and Horn met ten years ago in Boston, MA when Horn was in photography school and Powell was working for an IT company in Cambridge. They soon realized they had a penchant for traveling or what Horn calls, “A sickness to be on the move.” Horn is originally from Germany and when his VISA was running out so the two went back to Germany together. Horn’s job working in IT gives him the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world. After living in Germany for five years, the two began working on their own projects and in order to focus more they moved to Ireland. “Berlin got too crazy and we wanted to focus on our websites. We moved to a tiny little town in Ireland called Killala with two hundred and fifty people and we stayed there for a year and a half. Ireland was beautiful, but the weather was crap. We were tired of the rain and the wind. So we moved to Valencia, Spain where we stayed for two and a half years.” While in Valencia they moved around the city a few times and it before moving again in Valencia for a fourth time they thought of the idea to move to a new city every 3 months or so. “One day we decided why don’t we move every three months? As long as we have Internet we can still work and this way we get to always discover something new.”

The two decided that three months was a good amount of time to be in each city and their first destination of Oviedo, Spain was the perfect choice since it was still in Spain. So they put all of their belongings into a storage unit and off they went. “Three months in Oviedo was perfect. We had plenty of time to see everything we wanted. We hadn’t lived in the US in the last ten years so we decided on Savannah. There was Thanksgiving and Christmas and so far we have had a lot of visitors. For friends and family to hang out with us was a lot more complicated when we lived in Europe. Now it’s a one or two hour flight. I think three months in Savannah and the surrounding area is enough time and we are already researching the next city we want to go to, Buenos Aires.”

So how do they choose the city they will be spending three months of their lives in? “Five years ago we talked about potential cities we would want to move back to and Savannah was one of them. For the project now we wanted to pick a city that was off the radar. A lot of people picked Charleston, but it seemed almost too perfect. Savannah seemed perfect for us because it was young and artistic. We had five cities we considered and Savannah won out.” The blog helps the two really get out and be as adventurous as possible. “It (the blog) helps give us a kick in the ass we need as we know we have to go out and do something so we can post about it. When we were living in Berlin we would work and then just stay in and not do anything. Now we have to make sure we are going out and trying new things in each place we visit.”

Horn is utilizing social media to learn about unique places to explore while in each city. While in Savannah, Horn and Powell have been able to find the best BBQ in town, a Pirate House, and the best dive bar in town from suggestions that their Twitter followers have made to them. Horn set up his first Twitter account three years ago and at the time he just, “didn’t get it.” His feelings have since changed. “I stopped using it for a year, but then I was working on a project and began using it again, and really figured out how to use it and understand it. I have been using Twitter For 91 Days because it gives me instant access to local people, in this case Savannah. People are proud where they live, they want to show off their city and want to help those from the outside who come to explore their surroundings. They want to help so it works perfectly. I ask for a good place to eat and five seconds later I have six different people telling me a great restaurant to check out. Twitter is a great tool for us and has proven to help us a lot. I am really glad to have this great community and more people are starting to follow our journey and just helping us out.”  Essentially as more people follow the pairs online adventures, those same people become people they meet in real life.

With their time in Savannah coming to a close and their trip to Buenos Aires soon to follow, the two have no plans on settling down anytime soon. “We haven’t set a limit. We don’t really know. Maybe five years, maybe seven years. As long as we are having fun, and are healthy we are going to continue to do this, there is no time limit.” When the two enter a new city, the two have a structure of how they proceed since they have a three-month time limit. “Within the first month of a new location we decide where we are going next to give us two months to find a place. Right now we are in the process of finding a place in Buenos Aires. Once we have a place, we book our flight. Finding the place is usually the hardest part because we are far away from the new city. Places can be expensive and we want the most ideal place in that city so we can observe the most we can in the new location. We got very lucky in both Oviedo and Savannah and right now we are working on a place to live in Buenos Aires.”

Horn and Powell are in the process of working on a book of their journey that they are creating through the site Lulu.com, which is a self-publishing site. Before they leave Savannah they want to have the first book complete. “You upload PDF files and they bind the book for you and put it on Amazon for you. I have no idea if it’s worth all the effort, but it’s something that I think is fun to do.”

For anyone out there that wants to follow in Horn and Powell’s footsteps, Horn has some thoughts, “If you can have a steady income and you want to do it you just have to do it! You sort of figure it out as you go along. We had to put all of our stuff in storage; we had to figure out health insurance, we are traveling with a dog so we had to figure out what to do with our dog. There are always obstacles, but you can master them. We each just have one suitcase and our gadgets and I don’t miss anything that we own. It is a feeling of liberation. We can pack up in one hour and go somewhere else and it’s a great feeling, but it isn’t for everyone.”

More and more people are wanting to pack up their lives and travel the world.  There are numerous sites devoted to HOW to buy round the world tickets for next to nothing, how to take a year off to travel the world etc.  Horn and Powell are living the dream, meeting new people and writing about it in the process.

To live vicariously through Horn and Powell or get inspired to start your own epic journey around the world, check out their blog and all of their travel adventures here: For91Days.  Also to follow them on Twitter and help them decide their next destination go here: @For91Days