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How to Handle Excuse #12: Overwhelm

28 July 2010

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How to Handle Excuse #12: Overwhelm

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 [...]

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See, Hear and Read

16 July 2010

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See, Hear and Read

The past few weeks has been a variety of different unexpected media opportunities for us – we love sharing our passion for full time travel and combining it with a professional career. Here are some places you can read, see and hear more about what we’ve been up to recently: Upcoming Stuff – Come Join [...]

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Got Excuses?

15 July 2010

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Got Excuses?

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 [...]

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Camp Nomadia 2010 – A Burning Man Theme Camp

14 July 2010

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Camp Nomadia 2010 – A Burning Man Theme Camp

As many of you already know, we are both Burning Man participants – Chris having gone since 1999 and us together since 2007. And for the past 2 years we have hosted a theme camp specifically for nomadic minded folks. For 2010, we will be doing the same – and we invite you [...]

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Documentary Review: Ice Blink

6 July 2010

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Documentary Review: Ice Blink

Back in February, Cherie and I did some dreaming around taking the next phase of our technomadic wanderings out to sea. We went to the Miami International Boat Show, picked the brains of some great sailing nomads, and worked on defining what we wanted in our ideal floating home. Noticing our interest, my mom (thank you!) surprised [...]

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How to Handle Excuse #11: Conserving Water

7 June 2010

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How to Handle Excuse #11: Conserving Water

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 [...]

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Like Slowly Pulling a Bandage Off

25 May 2010

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Like Slowly Pulling a Bandage Off

May I take a moment and share with you something that is not easy about our traveling lifestyle? A nomad must get proficient at the art of saying good-bye – for you are always arriving and soon after leaving. Unless one can become detached emotionally enough, it’s going to tug at heartstrings. For me, I choose [...]

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Introducing: State Lines for iPhone

17 May 2010

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Introducing: State Lines for iPhone

Because some things change when you cross the line… Traveling around the USA, you likely have had some of the same experiences we have… You pull into a new state, decide it’s a good night for a beer, and assume you can stock up at a grocery store.  You search and search, only to find none for [...]

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Our Least Favorite Question: What’s Your Favorite Place?

12 May 2010

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Our Least Favorite Question: What’s Your Favorite Place?

Over the past years of full time travel, a frequent question we’re asked is: “What’s your favorite place so far?”   It’s become our least favorite question to be asked, and we’ve had to get creative in how we answer it. I’ve always hated being asked to name my favorite of anything – colors, food, climates, [...]

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Meet 17 Inspiring Nomadic Households from NuRVers

5 May 2010

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Meet 17 Inspiring Nomadic Households from NuRVers

This month’s introduction to nomads will be focused on the 17 nomadic households that we’ve been neighbors with over the past month here at the fantastic Hill Shade RV Park in Gonzales, TX for the NuRVers Gathering.  We come from all walks of life, and from all over the place. The one thing we all seem [...]

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