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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"Vintage Bus Hunt (April – June 2011)"
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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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 [...]
Continue Reading →After selling our Oliver Travel Trailer, and spending a month transitioning our travels in a borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome – we purchased a month long Amtrak Rail Pass to continue our vintage bus hunt.
We thought we’d share what we learned about traveling via a rail pass [...]
Our last post left you off with us making an offer on a vintage bus in Yuma, AZ that we nicknamed ‘Taxi Bus’. After our contingent offer was accepted, the next morning we made the trip from Lake Havasu City (where we’ve been basing out of while staying with dear friends) back down to [...]
Continue Reading →This post will take you on a condensed (really!) version of the journey that we’ve been on for the past couple of months to find our vintage bus.
We’ve had many requests to share pictures and stories of the various buses we’ve investigated. Perhaps sharing our process and top contenders might help others who are [...]
Continue Reading →After two months of searching the country following serendipity’s beacon – yesterday we bought a vintage bus!
She is a 1961 GM PD-4106, serial number 446. She’s 35′ long and 96″ wide.
While the 4106 is best known for being the heart of Greyhounds long haul fleet, our bus started her life as a [...]
Continue Reading →Since we dropped our borrowed Le’Sharo motorhome off in Georgia, we’ve been homeless. Intentionally so.
We packed everything we thought we’d need for an indefinite time period into two backpacks and hopped on a train across country to continue our search for our next home on wheels.
It’s been a mixture of [...]
Continue Reading →The past couple months of vintage bus shopping has felt much more like the delicate process of looking for an ideal life mate.
Vintage buses, like people, each have a life story. A personality and unique style. They each have their quirks, their potentials, their benefits and their problem areas. Just as there is no [...]
Continue Reading →It’s no secret that we are in the midst of a cross country hunt for a converted vintage bus to make our next technomadic home.
But… why?
Why a bus? Why not a more traditional RV?
And why vintage? Why on earth would we consider buying a vehicle potentially older than we are?
How [...]
Continue Reading →It was only a month ago when we found ourselves facing imminent homelessness, heading north from Florida to deliver both our truck and our beloved trailer to their new owner.
We headed towards the sale with literally no plan for what was next. We started looking into buying a temporary RV, or renting a [...]
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