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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After another all-nighter lithium ion battery research session last Tuesday, we slept in on Wednesday and then made our way down the hill from Flagstaff into Phoenix. With every foot of elevation drop, the temperature increased and we were soon reminded of why we escaped to Flagstaff in the first place.
The bus [...]
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Two weeks ago we finally escaped the intense Arizona desert heat in Lake Havasu City, and headed to nearby Flagstaff. Sitting at elevation 7000 ft, it’s many degrees cooler and has things that are green.
We came here intending to cool off – both our bodies and on the bus projects. We were also [...]
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 →A bit over a week ago I was buzzed over Skype by my friend Ewan Spence, an award-winning podcaster, Cthulhu tamer, and kilt wearing international man of mystery.
Ewan asked me if I’d like to be his guinea pig first interview for a new podcast concept he was trying out – “Room 404“.
Continue Reading →This past year we have been experimenting with selling electronically distributed products, namely our iOS applications ‘State Lines‘ and ‘Coverage?‘, and our ‘Answers to Common Excuses‘ eBook.
We thought it would be interesting to share the hard numbers behind these roll-outs, because there isn’t a lot of real-world publicly available data showing [...]
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We are beyond excited to present our newest iPhone/iPad app: Coverage?
Coverage provides an at-a-glance “universal” coverage map by interactively overlaying the coverage maps from the four major nationwide US cellular providers.
We came up for the idea last summer when we set up camp in a beautiful field of wildflowers [...]
Continue Reading →My desire to live life as a technomad isn’t new – the idea of combining technology and travel has been an active dream of mine for as long as I can remember.
Those dreams solidified one night in the early 90′s when I stumbled across the website and writings of Steve Roberts – the [...]
Continue Reading →There’s a predominance of cloud based services that are tempting to embrace, particularly for us digital nomads looking to offload the burden of maintaining systems ourselves. Everything from back-up services, note taking, file sharing, document creation, e-mail, blogging and finances. A company offers a service, they provide the hardware, manpower and tools to host your [...]
Continue Reading →Note: This post originally written on 9/10/2010 and updated on 9/20/2011 to reflect current information.
One of the most common things we get asked about is for advice on staying connected to the net while on the road. Worrying about a lack of usable connectivity is an excuse that holds many people back from [...]
Continue Reading →The past weeks have been a blur of amazing scenery going by at way too quick of pace (and with way too little bandwidth). It seems every time this part of the year is like this as we transition to be on the west coast for Burning Man. Before leaving Saint Louis, we [...]
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