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How to Handle Excuse #14: Safety
There are said to be three base driving forces in humans – food, reproduction and fear. Advertise with any of these three, and you speak to something so primal in humans, that they have viral power. Keeping safe is motivated by fear – it’s what kept our ancestors living long enough to pass their genes [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #13: Lack of Continuity
9 August 2010
One of the advantages of a stationary life, is a local knowledge of things and services around you. You know where your favorite dentist, doctor, hair dresser, grocery stores, restaurants, vets, bank branches, mechanics and more are. You know what produce is in season in August, and where the best pizza is. There’s a certain [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #12: Overwhelm
28 July 2010
When folks start thinking about transitioning their lives to become fully mobile, everything involved with that transition can be quite overwhelming. And that overwhelm can easily become an excuse that keeps you from moving forward towards your goal. There’s so many things that have to come together, such as: securing a mobile friendly income source deciding [...]
Continue reading...Got Excuses?
15 July 2010
Oftentimes when folks hear what we’re up to – we get the response of ‘You’re living my dream!’. To which we of course reply ‘Then why aren’t you doing it too?’. We are in process of compiling our responses to the common excuses that folks give us to that question, some very valid. We aim to share [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #11: Conserving Water
7 June 2010
There’s some pretty major family stuff up in our lives that is taking our focus, so please excuse our absence from posting much recently and in the coming weeks. We’ll update on that when more is known, but for now – I’m reposting something we did on water conseveration from before this blog was as [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #10: Healthcare
31 March 2010
No matter how you look at it, healthcare, and specifically health insurance, is a headache. Despite this being one of the most substantial excuses that hold people back from a nomadic life, I’ve been holding off on posting about this topic for a couple of reasons. For one, it took me nearly two years to figure out [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #9: Logistics
13 March 2010
Mail. Bills. Taxes. Banking. Voting. How does one handle all of these logistical things when you don’t have a physical fixed home address? It’s amazing how many mundane details in life are dependent upon having an address. When contemplating becoming intentionally homeless and embarking on a life of travel, trying to muddle through all of these [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #8: Romance & Companionship
25 January 2010
Relationships. Romance. Partnership. Marriage. Sex. Companionship. To many, those things are just as essential to life as water or oxygen. What sort of impact will living a nomadic life have on your current relationships? Or on your prospects for finding one? Today I am returning to fleshing out my ‘Answers to Common Excuses Not to Travel‘ series of [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #7: Community
19 August 2009
Us humans are social creatures, and we tend form and value communities of like minded people. Whether it be via hobbies, spirituality, family, friends, special interests, sports, school, work, volunteerism, or what not – when you live in a stationary place, you tend to form connections with people around you that become important to you, and [...]
Continue reading...How to Handle Excuse #6: Pets
6 July 2009
I’m a cat person, and always have been. When Chris and I set out for our first seven month trial run of traveling together in 2007, we decided that my cat Alma was not meant to be a traveling cat. Alma never enjoyed car trips (or Hurricane evacuations!), and it just didn’t seem right to try [...]
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- How to Handle Excuse #10: Healthcare
- How to Handle Excuse #9: Logistics
- How to Handle Excuse #8: Romance & Companionship
- How to Handle Excuse #7: Community
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- How to Handle Excuse #5: Environmental Impact
- How to Handle Excuse #4: Family
- Rasheed Hooda: Have fun you guys. I recall reading that you met up Japhy, I lost the link to his blog, can you post it so I can reconnect with him through his blog? ...
- Rob H: That would be crowd sourcing then. Looks grea!...
- JoAnna: Looks like Camp Nomdia is coming together well and that your feet are already collecting a healthy layer of playa dust! Have a fun week!...
- Danny Martin: Okay, now you're making me jealous. My brother is there, and I've never wanted to be anywhere more. Please keep the posts coming so I can at least l...
- Cherie Ve Ard: Probably not.. think we would need a press pass for that. And we're already taxing our solar capacity and FAP limits with sharing the connection....
- Elliott: With the satellite link, is there any chance of a Nomadia playa-cam running this week?...
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27 August 2010
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