I think that profiling other nomads we’ve encountered and what they’re up to will become a regular feature here. I just love meeting others embarking on these great adventures, and sharing their stories. And our readers seem to appreciate the introductions too.
So, here are some folks we’d like to introduce you to this month:
HiTek Homeless – Johnny and Jenn are two 30-something geeks who got fed up with the cubicle world and set off adventuring in a truck camper. They just celebrated their two year nomadiversary, and are currently workamping like us at amazon.com – but in the Nevada location. They also run the website FreeCampSites.net – which is an awesome resource for finding cheap and free camping. We are thankful that a fellow reader introduced us, and hope to cross paths in the future!
Mobile Kodgers – We were introduced to Randy via a post featuring us over on MyShrikingLife.com. I spent the other evening reading back over months of his posts, and was quick to determine that Randy is awesome – he’s traveling in a stealthy boondockable trailer out meeting amazing people and getting their stories. And it turns out, when I wrote him – he was at East Jesus, where we just left after being introduced to Container Charlie! How’s *that* for nomadic serendipity??
Mountainborn Chronicles – Larry and Betty are fellow Oliver Travel Trailer owners who we met on the trailer’s forums when we were considering ordering ours. They have always been so generous with their time in helping us. Part of the reason we came to Kansas was to finally meet up with them, as they’re workamping here too. We’re actually parked just down the street from them. Larry retired from the police force earlier this year, and now they’re out traveling the country workamping and geocaching along the way.
Live Collar Free – Many folks who frequent nomadic and lifestyle design blogs are familiar with James Schipper aka NomadRIP. A nomadic spirit himself, he’s invested a lot of effort in being a frequent contributor to the twittersphere and blogoshere around these topics – and we’ve been honored that he pokes around here. He’s recently quietly launched his own blog where we can start returning the gratitude!
If you know of other nomads or are one yourself – or even if you’re aspiring to be and starting to blog about it – don’t be shy about introducing yourself!
I’ve been learning so much from your blog! I enjoy watching and reading about your experiences. Appreciate the references in this post, it’s inspiring to follow a blogger’s nomadic/non-traditional journey, and I can’t wait for my moment, too.
Hope you’ll be taking it easy after all that hard work you’ve been putting in with amazon 🙂 How cool, though, to be making money during the holidays rather than just spending it.
.-= Sunny´s last blog ..What If You Only Tried to Impress Yourself? =-.
my work requires near constant travel. after 2 years splitting time between hotels, an apartment in venice beach and my house in san francisco i made a change. i sold my house in sf, bailed on venice and bought an airstream. now i have my bed, food, bike and surfboard with me everywhere i go. so far, so fun. keep me posted. i’ll do the same.
I sure appreciate the kind and unexpected words. I have a lot planned for the blog that will be fun for everyone. I’ll make more noise once I have a few things figured out 🙂
.-= James NomadRip´s last blog ..Crush It! Work Your Face Off with Gary Vaynerchuk =-.
Thanks for the great reference and references! Its always great to find fellow nomads on the internet.
.-= Hitekhomeless (jenn)´s last blog ..Who says eating cheap is eating crap? =-.
please tell me more about workamping at amazon.com! life is really very strange… i applied for a job at amazon the other day found on craigslist that required me to move to north dakota and had an extensive daydream about after working there a few months asking to be allowed to work remotely from the road. i had no idea this already existed. and i found you randomly through expeditionportal on a totally unrelated search. cool!
nice to meet you. your lives look fascinating. i want to copy you:)
.-= kari´s last blog ..Stranded in some skin and bones =-.
Hi Kari.. thanks for dropping by!
We’re working at one of the distribution centers via a temp agency that has brought in hundreds of RVers to fill in for the seasonal shipping rush. We’re all doing very labor intensive work at a moderate hourly wage, plus Amazon.com is paying our camping fees. We’ll have a more full write up on the experience after we’ve completed our season in a couple of weeks, and we’ve had time to catch up on sleep. We’re currently working 55 hrs a week.. it’s pretty intense.
This is the sort of work that could not be done remotely – as it requires you be physically present doing the manual labor required to ship packages. I don’t know that amazon.com corporate has a remote working program or not – their administrative operations are out of Seattle, so that location would have the most ability to be more flexible for their IT workers, etc. But from my understanding, there’s quite a competition to land jobs there. I would imagine any job in North Dakota would be at a distribution center, and more like what we’re doing here in Kansas.
Stay tuned.. we’ll have a more indepth report in a few weeks.
Just wanted to let you know of another molded fiberglass trailer nomad with a totally different approach to solo full timing: http://shalyard.blogspot.com/
I find his adventures fascinating.