As we’re a little bit visible on the interwebs, we occasionally get contacted by the media to be featured in articles, documentaries and TV spots. We have no drive or goal to be in the limelight, in fact – we’d kinda rather not be. But if there’s an authentic feeling opportunity to share our story to help inspire or educate others, we’ll give it consideration.
Earlier this week we were contacted by a casting company for reality TV shows, asking if they could chat with us to learn more about nomadic lifestyles. We instantly knew we had absolutely no interest in pitching ourselves to be cast, but if we could help with their fact finding – sure.
Our conversation turned to them wanting to learn more about our story – presumably to see if we were interesting enough for reality TV.
They asked… So, what’s your typical day like?
Oh, lets see. Yesterday we:
- Got up, checked e-mail
- Made green smoothies for breakfast
- Took a shower
- Worshipped the cat
- Worked for several hours at our computers sucking up way too much LTE data
- Nibbled on some lunch
- Went for a 5 mile walk
- Went to the grocery store
- Grilled some stuff outside for dinner
- Watched some random stuff
- Worshipped the cat some more
And there you have it, the fabulously exciting and adventurous lifestyle of these technomads. We bet millions of TV viewers would tune in weekly to see that, right? The episode on us doing laundry is sure to be a thriller edition! Oh, can you see the build up to the all exciting ‘dumping the tanks’ expose’??
We’re really not sure what vision folks have about what life on the road is like on a daily basis. As we’re not retired or taking a career break, our lives actually aren’t all that different than any other telecommuter.
We’re not exempt from daily errands and chores.
We’re not doing epic adventures like skydiving, jumping off cliffs, riding elephants across the desert and climbing mountains on a daily basis.
Sure, some days we’re working more hours than others – and we have flexibility to take whatever days we want ‘off’ to run errands or explore. That comes more from being self-employed than being nomadic tho.
The biggest thing that is exciting in the grand scheme of things – is that our mundane daily life can happen in a variety of locations. Our house is a 8′ wide 35′ long metal tube on wheels that has different scenary out the windows on a fairly regular basis.
Thus, our non work free time can be spent exploring new areas and socializing with different groups of people. Today it happens to be Melbourne, FL – nearby my parents, old friends and the beach. Last month, it was Atlanta, GA – where attending a major SciFi Con was just part of a ‘normal day’ for us. Two years ago (where does the time go??) we were jetting off to winter in the Virgin Islands to have routine long work days ending with snorkeling, fruity tropical drinks and tree frogs singing us to sleep.
And yeah, that mobility part is pretty freaking awesome.
But it doesn’t change the fact that really, our daily lives are probably just as mundane and boring as anyone elses. And certainly not interesting enough for Reality TV.
We’re good with that. Actually, thrilled with that.
That’s a pretty good point. Even if we do travel a lot and people think of how thrilling our lives are, we still need to eat, drink, wash the dishes, wash our clothes and clean up after ourselves (not to mention worshiping the beautiful creatures in our lives). Great post!
Grannysage and I have been Technomads since Sept of last year. We live on America’s roads in an older 34′ class A motorhome. The five of us including, our feline masters Lady Ghost Whispurr and Wileykat, Grannysage, Wanderer the Wandering Gnome, and I have traveled through 15 states in the last 13 months. Living on my social Security and the little we get from our new on-line businesses, we travel about 250 to 350 miles a month, staying at inexpensive RV parks and US Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds. We started in Lawrence, KS, (lived there 5 years in a duplex) and headed south to beat the Winter snows. Then we headed East from S. Texas towards e. North Carolina, where my daughter lives. 7 1/2 months later, we spent a month with my daughter and her family. Then on towards the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where my wife lived as a child. Visited her sister outside of Detroit. Stopped in at Hell, MI, crossed the “Big Mac” into Yooper Country and made our way to the tip of the Keweenaw Penisula to Copper Harbor, my wife’s childhood home. Now we are in Southern Wisconsin, making our way South and then West to the Pacific Coast. We spend our days on-line and worshiping the cats. Tis a wonderful life!
Great post – you pretty much summed up the fulltime lifestyle! Not sure if you remember me (formerly of blogger now with wordpress) we have commenced travel in our recently acquired Lazy Daze. Hope to see ya down the road someday! Maureen
Great to hear from you guys again, Maureen! Best wishes on the new adventures.
Nothing wrong with spending the day worshiping a cat, it’s good for the cat, and keeps us in our place.
Oh, you must be one of Kiki’ minions. She commends you for doing her bidding. 🙂
I don’t know, the “dumping the tanks” part worked pretty well on “RV”
The reality of it is not nearly as exciting 🙂
Hehe..excellent! Had to put a link to this one on my blog today.
Nina
Thanks for the link up.. and cheers to rainbow farting unicorns! (shh.. we’ll just keep them our little secret).
LOL ~ As always, I LOVE reading your posts 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Oh Goodness. I’ve said this elsewhere, but we’re so glad we don’t actually get any TV here. We could, if we wanted to, have Austrian TV, and perhaps a bunch of sports channels, but after seeing what was offered a few times when we stayed in hotels both here and in Germany, we decided to pass. Hate to say it but, if CNN is all there is on offer in English, I’ll pass on that as well.
If only someone would have an original idea for TV? It’s just pitiful, really. I’d sooner watch life in the local farm pond than any form of “reality TV”. *shudder*
We don’t watch much TV ourselves.
And that is exactly why “Reality TV” has absolutely nothing to do with reality!
We honestly don’t watch much TV at all, but that’s the impression we got.