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Burning Man Bound & Camp Nomadia

20 August 2010

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Burning Man Bound & Camp Nomadia

Whew. What a hectic few weeks it has been as we’ve traversed the western US in way too quick of a pace with very limited connectivity. But we have just landed in San Jose, CA to attend iOSDevCamp (an iPhone developer’s unconference) this weekend – and then we track back eastward towards Burning Man! For [...]

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Travelogue: Melbourne, FL to St. Louis, MO

2 August 2010

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Travelogue: Melbourne, FL to St. Louis, MO

Time Frame: July 7 – August 1, 2010 Miles Driven: 1818 With my father well on the mend after his lung removal, we were ready to head on from hot and muggy Florida and continue our adventures. With only one destination to make this summer – Burning Man 2010 at the end of August – we started [...]

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Our Celebrations – State Lines on Sale!

1 August 2010

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Our Celebrations – State Lines on Sale!

This week marks two noteable celebrations for our little nomadic household - It marks 2 years since we picked up our highly customized , geeked out Oliver Travel Trailer and began living in it full time.  We still love our little home on wheels, even if we do get space-envy from time to time.  It is [...]

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Nomadic Fitness Solution – Running!

23 July 2010

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Nomadic Fitness Solution – Running!

Staying fit can be a challenge for us nomadic types, faced with small living spaces, a lack of equipment, and an ever-changing environment. It is hard to have any sort of fitness routine when there is essentially nothing routine about your day-to-day life. Bikes just weren’t worth it For our first couple years on the road, Cherie [...]

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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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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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Creative Ideas for a Small Mobile Living Space

8 July 2010

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Creative Ideas for a Small Mobile Living Space

When living in a small space, you sometimes have to get creative with solutions to problems. You start to think differently about space and how to best utilize it. It’s a never ending process, and we’re constantly making small tweaks that make a huge difference in how we thrive in our 80 square feet of [...]

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Road Ahead: Summer 2010

5 July 2010

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Road Ahead: Summer 2010

Now that my father is on the mend, we start to look to what the remainder of our summer will look like, and what our routing will be to get to Burning Man. We don’t stress much about schedules, because things always seem to line up when they need to – as such as our [...]

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Travelogue: Austin, St. Louis & Florida

3 July 2010

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Travelogue: Austin, St. Louis & Florida

Time frame: May 27 – July 6 Miles Driven: 2256 After a couple months of being still in central Texas with a lot of social time, it was time to get back into motion. Our impending plans seemed to be calling us towards heading to St. Louis for Gateway Burn, and then traveling westward through Canada.  However, [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

20 June 2010

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Happy Father’s Day

Today, in honor of Father’s Day – Gizmodo is running a feature on dad’s influence on our tech obsessions. I thought it might be appropriate to share a bit about my father, as I owe a lot of my tech and location independent tendencies to him. My father grew up a Navy brat – always moving [...]

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