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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One of the ways we’ve discovered to arrive to a city feeling more in tune with it, is to listen to podcasts from local community radio. It’s a great way to get a feel for a city, know some of the current issues and even get hints on local places to eat and shop.
One [...]
Continue Reading →The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center is located near Dulles Airport, just outside Washington D.C.
Just like its more famous cousin located downtown along the Washington D.C. Mall, the Udvar-Hazy center houses an incredible collection of aviation artifacts, including an SR-71 Blackbird, the Space Shuttle Enterprise (the one used for in-atmosphere [...]
Continue Reading →We’re often asked what our favorite things are in our travels. The City Museum in downtown St. Louis, Missouri is without a doubt, on tops of that list. And who would have thought that in the center of the midwest stands one of the most amazing creations around?
The City Museum is no ordinary [...]
Continue Reading →A meshing of civil engineering and ecosystem art, the Fairmont Water Works interactive center gives a peak back in time to when water distribution throughout Philadelphia allowed the city to survive and thrive.
Located at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, spending some [...]
Continue Reading →As you wander throughout downtown Philadelphia, particularly around South Street, you’ll notice a lot of buildings decorated with broken mosiac murales. These are the artwork of Isaiah Zagar, and you can tour his huge installation at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens at 1020 South Street.
We first [...]
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Time Period: June 30 – July 29
Miles Driven: 1904
We had no plans for how to spend the summer. We had toyed with the idea of finding [...]
Continue Reading →Just off the mall in Washington DC is the National Portrait Gallery, housed with the American Art Museum, in the newly renovated former US patent office. Like all of the Smithsonian museums around DC, this one holds more amazing art and stuff to look at than you can possibly absorb in just one visit. [...]
Continue Reading →The Comcast Center is Philadelphia’s newest and tallest skyscraper, and within it sits a very impressive 83′ x 25′ (that’s feet.. not inches) television screen. It’s claimed to be the world’s largest TV, and it’s free to visit in the lobby of the Comcast Center – open day and night.
Working our way down the Mississippi from St. Louis towards Tennessee, we were hoping to find a scenic spot along the river to stop for two nights.
We struck gold when we stumbled into Kentucky’s Columbus Belmont State Park just before sunset. The view looking west from high up on the bluffs overlooking Mississippi [...]
Continue Reading →Time Period: June 12 – June 29
Miles Driven: 799
After a couple of weeks of our adventures being driven on visiting family in Texas and St. Louis, our attentions turned to social time with new and old friends. We had found some regional Burning Man events to attend, and even rendezvoused with another [...]
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