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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It is time to share more of the “Tech” side of Technomadia. As technomads, we’re constantly updating our technology arsenal. Here is an update on some of the technology toys we’ve been playing with lately – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Millenicom 4G Hotspot Plan / Samsung SCH-LC11 [...]
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Since we launched our new WordPress theme for our blog a couple months ago, I’ve been tweaking and re-organizing things as I find a spare hour here and there. After nearly 5 years of keeping this blog with over 400 posts now, we have a lot of content accumulated, and we wanted to [...]
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In the first post of this series:
I explained the chief downsides of Lead Acid batteries, the tried and true battery technology that powers essentially every RV electrical system made.
And in part two, I explained about the advantages Lithium Ion batteries, the latest and greatest battery technology to come along.
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In the first post of this series, I explained the chief downsides of lead acid batteries, the type found powering the house bank in 99.999% of all RV’s you have ever seen.
It is a depressingly long list.
As you will soon see, on paper lithium ion batteries seem to be superior in almost [...]
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We’ve made a few teaser posts showing off our new lithium ion battery bank, but we’ve yet to properly explain why on earth we decided to venture off into such uncharted electrical territory instead of installing a more traditional flooded lead acid or AGM battery bank.
This post is the start of [...]
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A while back, our friend Andy Hayes – that travel guy, launched a new website – Can I Drink the Water?
We thought it was brilliant. It very simply answers the question – “is it safe to drink the water?” for over 200 countries. A very handy reference tool for travelers .
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One of the most common things we get asked about is for advice on staying connected to the net while on the road. For us, staying connected to the internet is essential to our mobile livelyhood. Our business depends on it and we heavily utilize social networking online to keep connected with friends, family and [...]
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We left Burning Man in 2010 for the first time without a plan one way or the other if we would be attending in 2011. We left that decision up to serendipity.
But we did know one thing – if we attended, we wanted a year off of hosting our theme camp, Camp Nomadia, [...]
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There is nothing like hearing your air conditioner turn on via battery power! Not that it’s any different of a sound.
So let’s back up a few days, and cover the journey since we left Phoenix – where we built our own lithium ion battery bank.
Building our bank was lots of fun, but [...]
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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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