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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"Oliver Travel Trailer (July 2008 – May 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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On Saturday, May 7 – we watched our beloved 17′ Oliver Travel Trailer and Toyota Tundra drive off after spending an evening giving its new owner a full orientation.
Photo by Karen Nace, 2010.
It [...]
Continue Reading →The new-to-us GPS unit we recently purchased from my father instructs us to turn left. We ignore her, and turn right instead… our way seems more scenic.
‘Re-calculating‘ she proclaims.
She comes back with instructions to get us back on her previously researched route. We’re obstinate. We ignore her and continue on the route that calls [...]
Continue Reading →Its no secret that we’ve been pondering “what’s next” for a while now, particularly since we’ve returned from the Virgin Islands.
Sailboat? Not yet.
International adventures? Yes, we want more extended jaunts to exotic places. But we want to keep some sort of (mobile) base in the US to return to, [...]
Continue Reading →As some may have noticed by reading between the lines, this past year some aspects of our RV-based nomadic lifestyle began to wear a bit thin for us. After four years (five for Chris!) on the road together, our ping-pong route between Florida, St. Louis, Burning Man, and San Francisco had begun to develop ruts, [...]
Continue Reading →Time period: Oct 7, 2010 – March 30, 2011
Miles traveled by RV: 3140
Miles traveled in total: 4405
While parked in San Francisco hanging out with friends post Burning Man, we were trying to figure out what was next for us. After a very hectic summer [...]
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Labels are best when they are descriptions, not prescriptions.
Whenever I’m exploring a new hobby, lifestyle or professional pursuit, I tend to take on the labels associated with it to relate the experience to others. Terms like nomad, technomad, RVer, geek, location independent, fire dancer, traveler, blogger are labels that [...]
Continue Reading →In the past week since we signed our lease to winter on St. John in the US Virgin Islands, we’ve been busily making preparations for this new challenge. That’s a big part of the appeal for us about this adventure – a change of pace, and a new set of travel-while-working challenges to figure [...]
Continue Reading →72 Hours ago, we had never heard of the island of St. John. And now.. it’ll be our home for 5 months this winter.
We’ve both been craving some major change. Our full time RVing around the US has become a bit.. routine. Hard to imagine that constant mobility can start to seem stationary, [...]
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