Behind the Journal
The Nomax Editorial Team
The Nomax Journal is written and edited by a team of four travelers — each covering the part of the road they actually know first-hand. This page introduces the editors and explains the standards we hold ourselves to.
Meet the editors
Maya Ellison
Founding Editor, Nomax Journal
Founding editor. Writes about meeting people on the road.
Lisbon, Portugal
Diego Fuentes
Remote Work Editor
Remote-work editor. Coworking, coliving and café desks.
Mexico City, Mexico
Priya Raman
Solo & Safety Editor
Solo & safety editor. Solo-female travel and hospitality exchange.
Bengaluru, India
Anton Kellerman
Cities & Cost-of-Living Editor
Cities editor. Cost of living and long-stay logistics.
Berlin, Germany
How we make the guides
Written from the road, not a desk
Our guides come from the Nomax editorial team — travelers and long-term nomads who have actually slept in the hostels, worked from the cafes, taken the night buses and walked the neighborhoods we write about.
Specific, checked, and honest
We use real places, real prices and current sources. We give ranges instead of false precision, and we name the downsides, scams and awkward parts other guides leave out.
Dated and revisited
Travel facts go stale fast. Every article is dated, and we come back to update guides as cities, costs and rules change rather than letting them rot.
On the traveler’s side
We write for the person about to land somewhere new and a little nervous. If advice wouldn’t help our own first night in a city, it doesn’t make the page.
Why we write it
Nomax exists because travel is better shared — the app helps solo travelers and digital nomads find each other in the same city, right now. The Journal is the other half of that idea: the guides you read before you go, so that when you arrive you already know how to find the meetup, the coworking table, or the bar where people actually talk to strangers.
We are not a content farm and we don’t publish thin, copied listicles. Every guide is meant to help a real person make a real decision on the road. If you spot something out of date or wrong, tell us through our contact page and we’ll fix it.
