Five years ago we were on the hunt for our first folding electric bikes, and we had a very particular requirement – the bikes needed to fold up small enough to store in the front luggage bay on our bus. There was just no place to store full-size bikes with the way the bus and […]
Winnebago 2016 Travato 59G Design Flaws – Time For a New Van?
It’s now been 16 months since we purchased our van Coopernicus – a 2016 Winnebago Travato G. Over that timeframe, the van has been our daily driver, our get-away adventure vehicle, our shuttle craft and our hurricane escape pod. We’ve taken Cooper on a long extended cross country trip (all the way to Arizona!), and on […]
14th Nomadiversary: A Nomad in a Locked-Down World
Fourteen years ago today, I began my life as a full-time Technomad. At the time I first set off – I was imagining RVing all around the country, exploring Alaska, paramotoring in Baja, backpacking internationally, and contemplating maybe eventually living on a boat. My imagination was overflowing with dreams of all the potential adventures lying […]
Watching The RVers’ TV Show as an RVer: No Cable? No Satellite? – No Problem!
In case you haven’t heard – we are co-hosts of the upcoming TV series ‘The RVers‘, premiering on Discovery Channel on November 17th at 8AM eastern. We are going to be on TV! But… we’ve been full time travelers for over 13 years now, and “cord cutters” even before then. Just what IS this TV thing?! […]
Tour of our Boat’s Electrical System – Solar, Lithium & Inverters! (Updated for 2025)
As technomads – our mobile electrical systems are the lifeblood of our various nomadic homes. After all – we need to keep all this technology powered up somehow. And while stock RV and boat electrical systems are often perfectly useable (if somewhat limited) – whenever we embrace a technomadic home we just can’t resist diving […]
Nearly Ten Years in the App Store – An Update on the Technomadia App Collection
For those who have been following along here for a while – you might remember that we launched our first app State Lines way back on May 17th, 2010. Wow – it’ll be 10 years next year! This was back in the day of the iPhone 3GS and iOS 3.0! It is amazing how much […]
[April Fools] How Do We Move the Car Between Ports While Cruising?
This was Chris’ April Fools Post.. enjoy the humor within 🙂 Here’s how we ACTUALLY move our vehicle between marinas: How We Hopscotch Our Car Between Marinas (For Realz…) When we first moved aboard our boat, Y-Not, we were not sure if it would be practical to keep our MINI Cooper that we’ve towed behind […]
Y-Not Upgrades & Modifications: Two Year Update and Bayliner 4788 Tour
It is hard to believe we’ve been (mostly) living on Y-Not for over two years now – wow! In that time, we’ve tackled some pretty big upgrades and maintenance projects. Some long planned, others scheduled by serendipity. And in the course of the past two years, we have managed to transform Y-Not into an incredibly […]
Is It Time For #vanlife?!? – Starting our Hunt For a Class-B Van RV
First off – lets answer the obvious questions… NO – we are not looking to sell or replace our vintage bus conversion Zephyr. Nor are we looking to give up on boat life aboard Y-Not! We still love the idea of spending roughly half the year on the water cruising in our boat, and half […]
”By All Rights, That Engine Should Start” – Suzuki DF15A Outboard & Customer Service Failure
Our first stop after leaving Jacksonville to cruise up the St. Johns River was Doctors Lake – only 12 nautical miles up stream. We figured this would be a good short first hop to get back into the groove of living on the water, and we had heard that you could dinghy ashore at Whitey’s […]
