RVing Resources from Technomadia

 

We’ve been blogging ever since we hit the road together. We consider Technomadia.com to be our personal space and it started as a continuation of our blogs we were both keeping when we met. It was a place to share our travel stories with friends and family, and mainly keep the parents from calling every day to make sure we were still alive as we embarked on this crazy nomadic journey.

Friends started asking questions about how we stayed online, got our mail or decided where to go next. So we started writing about that sort of stuff too.

And before we knew it, we had a bunch of new friends reading along (hi!).

We sincerely thank you for spending your time and bandwidth to join along in our adventures – whether you’ve been with us from the early days, or are just tuning in. Blogging, while fun, is also a lot of effort and time consuming… and knowing it’s helping people out is what makes the time worthwhile.

As a thank you back to you, we’ve put together this quick guide to some of our more useful content.

More About Us

• Our Start Here Page – The short story about us and the intentions behind this blog.
• Our Full(er) Story — How we met, who we are, our various forms of travel thus far and how we earn our income as we roam.
• Our Home on Wheels – A tour of our current nomadic home — an awesome 1961 vintage bus. Also includes links to our bus project logs, and don’t miss our 3-year review post about the expenses and experience of traveling in a vintage bus.
• Our Mobile Gear – A listing of some of the gear that enhances our mobility — from tech, to toys to practical household items.
• Our Mobile Internet Setup – An illustrated guide the mobile internet setup that keeps us connected in most places we roam.
• Our Monthly Cost Log —  We’ve shared our travel cost log online for years, and you’re welcome to view it.
• Our Offerings – Listing of all our ‘for sale’ items – eBooks, apps, consulting sessions.

Life on the Road

Curious about hitting the road yourself?  In addition to writing about our own travel adventures, we also share a lot of practical and thinky’ content about how we’ve made it work:

No Excuses: Go Nomadic

PDF Format (pay what you want): 

This is our series of articles about the logistical aspects of living a nomadic life. We offer it as a free blog series, or as a convenient eBook on a pay as you wish’ basis for those who wish to contribute to the costs of maintaining this site and help keep us inspired to keep sharing.  Enjoy!

 

Some of the topics in the series:

• Mobile Income Ideas
• Affording it
• Family
• Picking a State of Domicile, Mail,Voting 
• Banking & Finances
• Pets
• Healthcare & Health
• Getting rid of your stuff

Ramblings: Tales from Nomads

Our video interview series  – we love meeting up with our nomadic friends in our travels, so we decided to start filming interviews with them so you can meet them too. Our way is not the only way.

We now have a collection of over 25 (!!) interviews produced. We’re bringing the series to a close, and may start working on some compilation videos. Check this series out, there’s some serious inspiration here from a wide variety of folks living on the road and making it happen.

Want to meet more fellow working on the road nomads? Here’s our extensive listing to blogs of Fellow Younger’ RVing Nomads.

In addition to the interview series, we’ve also been hosting monthly(ish) live video streams, and have them all archived here.

RVing Resources

We’ve put together a lot of content on RVing in specific, although we tend to focus on the tech and lifestyle aspects – and less on the practicalities.

We just launched a brand new section of the website that brings together all of our RVing articles and resources into one place:

RVing Resource Center – From gear reviews, finding campgrounds, building a RV appropriate wardrobe, technical updates and more, all of our guides are now accessible from this central page.

Some of the oldies that might not show up on the top of the list also include:

• Gift Giving Guide for Full-Time RVers
• Healthcare on the Road
• Tips and Tricks for a Versatile RVing Wardrobe
• Our 10 Most Surprising Things about Full Time RVing
• Our House is in the Shop (when your RV breaks down)
• Realities of Living & Traveling in a RV Full Time (video)
• Setting up our Domicile in Florida (Why, how and how much)
• Full Timers Perspective on Fuel Costs

In addition to the general collection, we also offer more focused sections that might help out too:

• Live Video Chat Series — Archives of our monthly live video chats about various RVing topics. Be sure to also sign up for our e-mail notifications when we schedule our next live chat so you can join in.
• RVing Resources We Love — Our collection of links to communities, groups and RVing services we utilize.
• Non-Retired Younger’ RVing Nomad Blogs — Links to others living awesome lives on the road.
• Full Time RVing Workspace Case Studies — Ideas and inspiration for designing desk spaces into RVs.
• Bus Conversion Resources – Have a bus conversion, or considering one? Here’s our collection of links to communities and resources that we consider essential tools.

 

Mobile Technology

Mobile technology is central to our lifestyle, after all … we’re tech-nomads.  Here’s some links to resource collections we’ve put together about the tech side of our life.

Our articles specific to mobile technology and connectivity, including:

• RV Mobile Internet Resource Center – We’ve written so much content on this topic that we’ve launched a brand new website just for mobile internet. We’ve been blown away by how successful this new endeavor has become, especially the Mobile Internet Aficionados… thank you for supporting us so we can focus on creating lots of quality content.  We offer:
  • The Mobile Internet Handbook – Available in PDF, Kindle, iBooks or print – it’s 234 pages of information to help folks decide what is their most ideal mobile internet setup, explains all of the options and written for non-techies to geeks.
  • Free news center tracking breaking news in the industry that impacts RVers.
  • Resource articles that go beyond our book and keep it ‘living’. We add in-depth product reviews and guides, some free and some as exclusive content to our members.
  • Premium membership group with additional in-depth content, Q&A forums, webinars, community and newsletters for those who rely on mobile internet for their RVing lifestyle.
  • Personal mobile internet advising to help those who would like us to assess their needs and come up with their ideal mobile internet setup balancing their unique bandwidth needs, travel style and budget.
• Our iPhone & iPad App Essentials for RV Travel
• Solar Electricity for RVs – This will be a growing resource as we write more content about solar for RVing.
• Lithium Ion batteries for RVs – We installed a lithium ion battery bank as our house battery system in 2011, and have a collection of articles about the technology, as well as updates as our batteries age.

Mobile Apps

We have also developed a few mobile apps to address situations in our own travels, and offer them for sale:

US Public Lands overlays BLM, Forest Service, NPS and public land boundary maps. Helping you utilize US national resources!

 

 

Coverage? directly overlays and compares cellular carrier data maps. Perfect for bandwidth hungry travelers!

 

State Lines tracks over 50 laws that change as you cross US state lines – beer, txt, seat belts, smoking, RVing, etc.

 

 

 

 

Follow Us Elsewhere

We’re not just bloggers, we keep active in some other places on the web. Here’s some places you can follow along and interact with us at:

• RVillage – This new social network for RVers we helped launch earlier this year continues to grow! Check into your current location, make new friends and keep in touch with existing ones.
• Facebook – We enjoy our Facebook page, and update it a couple times a day generally sharing a snapshot from our day as well as crosspost content from the blog. We also love some of the conversations that transpire there.
• Instagram – We’re getting a bit more active on this photo sharing mobile app, and have been enjoying posting a photo every now and again.
• YouTube – Our YouTube following has grown quite a bit this year, and we’re blown away by it! We cross post archives of our live video chats there, our interview series and other content we create. Now that we have more mobile data at our fingertips, we may start producing more video content.
• Twitter – We don’t actively post or follow much on Twitter these days, but all of our Facebook posts and blog posts get automatically cross posted there. So if tweeting is your thing, you can keep up with us there too.
• E-mail Subscription – We offer our blogs posts by e-mail as well. You can subscribe to keep all posts, a weekly summary, just special announcements or live video chat announcements.

Given the number of questions we get on a wide variety of topics we’ve written about before, I’m hoping some of this is useful reminders.

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If you’ve appreciated all we’ve shared over the years, we always greatly appreciate hearing it! You’re welcome to drop us a line at contact@technomadia.com (we welcome quick questions… if you desire more individualized guidance or to ‘pick our brains’  we do also offer personal sessions).

Please don’t ever hesitate to leave a comment or show your appreciation in other ways. It really does help keep us inspired to keep sharing. We love hearing from you.. even if it’s just to say thanks or that you enjoyed a post we’ve made. We also offer a ‘Donate’ button on the bottom left hand corner of every page of our site if you’d like to virtually buy us a drink too – not that we except it, but we certainly do appreciate it.

Thank you for following along, and whether you’re a current nomad, future nomad or just enjoy the stories – we appreciate having you spend some time with us. Wishing you a joyous, warm and thankful Thanksgiving.