Technomads: Technology Enabled Nomads
Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard are exploring the confluence of full-time travel, technology, career and community; all while embracing nomadic serendipity.
Current adventure: Full time RVing in the USA in a 1961 Vintage Bus Conversion.
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We are deep in the midst of a kitchen remodel this week, and we’ve been posting progress photos on our Facebook page as we go. We’ll do a post with better photos of the completed project later.
But because the remodel has involved us permanently pulling our propane powered range / oven, we’ve been [...]
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It’s now been nearly 7 months since we purchased and moved into our vintage bus. We thought this might be a good time to answer some questions we keep getting, such as:
Do you like bus life? How much have you spent on your bus projects? Bus Life vs. Travel Trailer Life
First of all, [...]
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Every year since we hit the road together, I’ve hand created a year end routing map – it’s such a fun way to reflect on the year’s adventures.
Our past maps : 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010
2011 was a year of a lot of changes for us, and trying to illustrate [...]
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A couple months ago we asked for your help in coming up with a name for our bus. We were blown away by the outpouring of ideas in comments, Facebook and e-mail. Thank you everyone!
Y’all put your brains in overdrive and came up with some pretty clever stuff - [...]
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In the first post of this series:
I explained the chief downsides of Lead Acid batteries, the tried and true battery technology that powers essentially every RV electrical system made.
And in part two, I explained about the advantages Lithium Ion batteries, the latest and greatest battery technology to come along.
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Today is a special day for us. It was five years ago that Chris and I met in person for the first time.
It was also the day we had our first technomadic adventure.
We had been corresponding online since the prior June, just a couple months after Chris gave up his San [...]
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In the first post of this series, I explained the chief downsides of lead acid batteries, the type found powering the house bank in 99.999% of all RV’s you have ever seen.
It is a depressingly long list.
As you will soon see, on paper lithium ion batteries seem to be superior in almost [...]
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We’ve now had our bus for a little over 3 months – but we have yet to come up with a name for her.
Well, I should say – we have several contenders, but none of them are quite “it”.
So it’s time to ask for your help.
A little background on the bus, [...]
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We’ve made a few teaser posts showing off our new lithium ion battery bank, but we’ve yet to properly explain why on earth we decided to venture off into such uncharted electrical territory instead of installing a more traditional flooded lead acid or AGM battery bank.
This post is the start of [...]
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We feel satiated after completing a lot of projects while at St. George RV Resort.
Interior Remodeling
The manager of the park introduced us to their new woodworking skilled maintenance man to see about building our dual desk unit. We didn’t think it’d be possible to build something quick enough for us to get back [...]
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