It seems recently that we as digitally nomadic travelers have been gifted with some invaluable resources to connect with each other to share tips, resources, inspiration and support.
Here’s a resource list of some online nomadic communities we’ve stumbled into and utilize:
Just opened is a tribe from the awesome folks at NuNomad.com. They offer a place to set up a profile and join forum discussions and groups with other nomads, or those in the process of becoming nomadic. They also offer a classifieds section, to help nomads share information such as housing, services and resources. We definitely recommend poking your head in here – whether you’re currently on the road, or aiming to get there.
Started by Sean Bonner after his Boing Boing announcement about going technomadic, this group is a fine collection of others looking to embrace a life of location independence and technology. A lot of geeky talk about minimalism, travel and tech goes on there. We’ll forgive Sean for not giving much of a nod to those who have come before him in his revolution (ahem – like the guy who coined the word), as we sure do appreciate him using his presence to bring these folks together.
The folks who gained fame for the Location Independent Professionals movement (aka ‘LIP’) put a clubhouse on their website to serve as a forum discussion group for those seeking and living these lifestyles. It’s been sorta dead lately, maybe some new energy there would be good?
This one is specifically aimed at younger full-time RVers, primarily USA based. It’s a very active community, and their forums are a great place to get any question you have about living and working on the road answered. There’s also generally a couple physical gatherings each year that are organized there. Next up is their New Years party at Quartzite, Arizona (which we’re sad to miss.. this was our plan before coming to St. John.)
We were just alerted to this community, which links up travelers with locals and other travelers. You set up a profile, and then setup dates and locations of future travel, or even desired travel. You can then look up others who are traveling to the same place on the same date. One of the intentions of the site is for solo travels to be able to converge and share travel expenses and experiences… however it’s also quite useful for general nomadic rendezvouses. They also have seemingly active forums.
Jennifer of Living In My Car recently started a Yahoo Group to connect with other women who want to travel solo, primarily via RV. It seems to be quite active.
A site for matching travelers with available crash space in willing host’s home, also boosts active forums for travelers to connect and share resources. Everyone we’ve met who utilizes this site has amazing things to say about the community there.
Lonely Planet Thorn Tree and Matador Travel Community
While both of these sites are more focused on independent travel in general, their forums are great resources for connecting with other travelers and getting information about destinations.
Where else do you pull up a virtual chair and converse with fellow nomadic souls online?
Thanks so much for the mention Cherie and for your support of the Tribe. You’ve been an amazing help to us. So glad you’re enjoying St. Johns!
Carmen
Maybe it’s just the wrong time of year, but I wouldn’t rate nurvers forum posting rate of one every two days (with a gap of over a week) since I joined as “very active”. Even the yahoo group for my brand of rv is more active.
Thanks for your recomendations — I joined nurvers and nunomads after you mentioned them, and I’ll check out a couple of the others.
While NuRVers hasn’t had active forums the past couple weeks, it definitely goes in waves. I consider that community to be very active, and a lot of the activity isn’t on the forums. Many of us long term members there regularly check in there, and when there are new folks posting – we chime in. That’s active to me. And, many of us keep in touch on twitter, facebook, e-mail and in person as we roam. Plus.. there’s events actively being organized 🙂
Great community that is there when you need them. Someplace folks with questions about living and working from an RV can post and get responses.
Personally I like forums that average just a few posts a week. Otherwise it feels like too much work to keep up, and I often drift away. The key thing for me is that there are people reading the posts and replying to questions. If questions go unanswered, only then do I consider a forum “dead”.