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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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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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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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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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Living via Solar Power in an RV – FAQ

13 April 2010

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Living via Solar Power in an RV – FAQ

It seems like every week we get an email or two asking us for more details about our solar RV travel trailer setup, what components we use, what things we run off of solar, and how well being solar powered is working for us overall. We get so many questions that it seems like a good [...]

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How to Handle Excuse #10: Healthcare

31 March 2010

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How to Handle Excuse #10: Healthcare

No matter how you look at it, healthcare, and specifically health insurance, is a headache. Despite this being one of the most substantial excuses that hold people back from a nomadic life, I’ve been holding off on posting about this topic for a couple of reasons. For one, it took me nearly two years to figure out [...]

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How to Handle Excuse #9: Logistics

13 March 2010

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How to Handle Excuse #9: Logistics

Mail. Bills. Taxes. Banking. Voting. How does one handle all of these logistical things when you don’t have a physical fixed home address? It’s amazing how many mundane details in life are dependent upon having an address. When contemplating becoming intentionally homeless and embarking on a life of travel, trying to muddle through all of these [...]

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Take the Serendipity Challenge

5 March 2010

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Take the Serendipity Challenge

We strive to live our lives embracing nomadic serendipity, and keeping our schedule on Nomadic Standard Time. We’ve discovered that escaping the stress that comes from rushing around to meet scheduled obligations opens one up to truly being in tune with what is around you in the moment. This allows you to truly experience where [...]

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The Domestic Nomad

29 January 2010

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The Domestic Nomad

If you read the blogs of a lot of self-proclaimed nomads, lifestyle designers and location independent professionals – you could easily get a sense that international travel and global nomadism is the holy grail of every long term perpetual traveler. We’re here to stand up and say – being a Domestic Nomad is an equally valid [...]

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7 Steps to Get Rid of Stuff!

11 November 2009

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7 Steps to Get Rid of Stuff!

Your closets are overflowing. Bookshelves disorganized. Cabinets of chaos.  You can’t see the top of your desk. You just simply have too much stuff. And most of it going unused. Whether you’re tired of the clutter, doing seasonal decluttering, wanting to make over your wardrobe or preparing your life for full mobility – purging is both freeing [...]

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