One year ago today, we drove to Hohenwald, Tennessee and picked up our custom built dream technomadic home – a 17′ Oliver Legacy Elite by Oliver Travel Trailers. We named it Orion. Since then, we’ve taken our home all around the country. Orion has been coast to coast and has visited 26 states in its […]
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Mikegyver Revisited: iGo vs Kensington MacBook 12v Power
In May I took a close look at the MacBook 12v power supplies offered by Mikegyver.com – and at first I came away extremely impressed. To recap, here are some quotes from our initial review: One particular frustration that has vexed me for over three years now is that there is no ”official” way to […]
Video Edition: National Portrait Gallery
Just off the mall in Washington DC is the National Portrait Gallery, housed with the American Art Museum, in the newly renovated former US patent office. Like all of the Smithsonian museums around DC, this one holds more amazing art and stuff to look at than you can possibly absorb in just one visit. The […]
Technomadia featured on Indie Travel Podcast!
A while back, Craig Martin of the award winning Indie Travel Podcast – Travel Talks, invited us to make a guest video podcast contribution about our travels. And it’s just been published!! We put together an overview of how we came to travel, construction of our technomadic home (which isn’t as cool a Knight Rider, […]
Video Edition: Comcast’s Largest Television Screen
The Comcast Center is Philadelphia’s newest and tallest skyscraper, and within it sits a very impressive 83′ x 25′ (that’s feet.. not inches) television screen. It’s claimed to be the world’s largest TV, and it’s free to visit in the lobby of the Comcast Center – open day and night. When we first got off […]
Campground Review: Columbus Belmont State Park, Kentucky
Working our way down the Mississippi from St. Louis towards Tennessee, we were hoping to find a scenic spot along the river to stop for two nights. We struck gold when we stumbled into Kentucky’s Columbus Belmont State Park just before sunset. The view looking west from high up on the bluffs overlooking Mississippi River […]
Travelogue: St. Louis to Indiana
Time Period: June 12 – June 29 Miles Driven: 799 After a couple of weeks of our adventures being driven on visiting family in Texas and St. Louis, our attentions turned to social time with new and old friends. We had found some regional Burning Man events to attend, and even rendezvoused with another friend […]
Trusting Things Will Work Out
One of the most difficult lessons that I’ve had to learn in embracing a nomadic lifestyle is trusting that things will work out. It’s difficult to take a leap not knowing knowing where you’ll land. When I decided to embark on full time nomadism, I couldn’t have picked a worse economic time. I had a […]
Two Years Shampoo Free
I love the look on people’s faces when I tell them I’ve not shampooed my hair in nearly 2 years now. I think the image that conjurs up is unruly matted dreads, which is not how my naturally curly red hair looks. And actually, my hair has never been healthier and more manageable than since […]
Propane Powered Generator – Honda EU2000i + Propane Conversion Kit
Though we normally rely on our 200 watt solar system for power, one of the essentials in our technomadic toolbox is our small Honda EU2000 generator that has been modified to run off of propane. [wp_campaign_3] We rely on this generator to top off our batteries when the solar is not able to keep up due […]
