After two months of searching the country following serendipity’s beacon – yesterday we bought a vintage bus! She is a 1961 GM PD-4106, serial number 446. She’s 35′ long and 96″ wide. While the 4106 is best known for being the heart of Greyhounds long haul fleet, our bus started her life as a regional […]
A Vintage Bus?!?
It’s no secret that we are in the midst of a cross country hunt for a converted vintage bus to make our next technomadic home. But… why? Why a bus? Why not a more traditional RV? And why vintage? Why on earth would we consider buying a vehicle potentially older than we are? How did […]
Serendipity Says: Light Speed Ahead (Imminent Homelessness)
Its no secret that we’ve been pondering “what’s next” for a while now, particularly since we’ve returned from the Virgin Islands. Sailboat? Not yet. International adventures? Yes, we want more extended jaunts to exotic places. But we want to keep some sort of (mobile) base in the US to return to, so that we can […]
Financial Realities of eProducts
This past year we have been experimenting with selling electronically distributed products, namely our iOS applications ‘State Lines‘ and ‘Coverage?‘, and our ‘Answers to Common Excuses‘ eBook. We thought it would be interesting to share the hard numbers behind these roll-outs, because there isn’t a lot of real-world publicly available data showing the realities of […]
Our 2010 Travel Route
It’s always so much fun to compile this map every year (click for 2007, 2008 and 2009). In 2010, we traversed roughly 13,633 miles and 25 states via RV across the good ole’ US of A. We had every intention of traveling into Canada for the summer, and into Mexico in the fall/winter to finally […]
Introducing: Coverage? for iPhone & iPad
\ We are beyond excited to present our newest iPhone/iPad app: Coverage? Coverage provides an at-a-glance “universal” coverage map by interactively overlaying the coverage maps from the four major nationwide US cellular providers. We came up for the idea last summer when we set up camp in a beautiful field of wildflowers along the continental […]
Our Celebrations – State Lines on Sale!
This week marks two noteable celebrations for our little nomadic household – It marks 2 years since we picked up our highly customized , geeked out Oliver Travel Trailer and began living in it full time. We still love our little home on wheels, even if we do get space-envy from time to time. It […]
Our iPhone App Essentials for RV Travel
March 6, 2013: We have a big update to this post – check it out at Our iPhone & iPad App Essentials for RV Travel! As Technomads, it should be no surprise that we are mobile technology lovers. We love our iPhones (and yes, we did just both upgrade to the new iPhone 4), and we […]
Introducing: State Lines for iPhone
Because some things change when you cross the line… Traveling around the USA, you likely have had some of the same experiences we have… You pull into a new state, decide it’s a good night for a beer, and assume you can stock up at a grocery store. You search and search, only to find […]
Living via Solar Power in an RV (Our Oliver Travel Trailer Install – 2008-2011)
2012 Update: This post was written based off our last RV – a 17′ Oliver Travel Trailer that was designed for being off grid. After 3 years of full time travel in the Oliver, in June 2011 we moved into a 35′ vintage bus to create something more versatile. We are in the process of […]
