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Camp Nomadia featured on DigitalNomads.com

May 8, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard Leave a Comment

The admins over at DigitalNomads heard about the Burning Man camp for nomads, Camp Nomadia, that we’re organizing and asked if we could write a blog entry for them to introduce the camp to their community. Nomads at Burning Man Have a Place to Call Their Own Pop on over and learn more about both […]

Campground Review: McKinney Falls State Park (near Austin, TX)

May 7, 2009 by Chris Dunphy 6 Comments

Cherie grew up in Austin, and her brother and his wife live there today. It is a cool town, and a place we will want to return to often in our travels. Camping near a major urban area is always a challenge, but in McKinney Falls State Park we have discovered a great place to […]

Digital Vagabonding Roads Scholarship

May 6, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard 1 Comment

The Digital Vagabond is teaming up with Matador Travel and Travellerspoint Travel Community to offer a scholarship to pay for a 3 month road trip across America this summer. And get this.. it ends at Burning Man 2009! How *perfect*. We think this is completely off the charts awesome.. so if you’ve been waiting for […]

Sprint SmartView “Upgrade” Downgrades Sharing

May 4, 2009 by Chris Dunphy 12 Comments

The newly released Sprint SmartView 2.22 driver upgrade came with no release notes and no apparant new features, but once you install it Sprint has the gall to actively prevents you from using the built in connection sharing feature in Mac OS X.

(Post updated with a fix…)

Travelogue: Arizona and New Mexico

May 3, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard 4 Comments

Time Period: April 9 – April 23, 2009 Miles Driven: 1255 With very few planned stops and knowing that Arizona and New Mexico were both full of amazing things to see, we opted to primarily follow Route 66 across these states, using the old highway as our guide.  We had both traveled across Arizona and […]

A week still

May 1, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard Leave a Comment

Ever since we left the San Francisco Bay Area on March 22, we’ve been in motion heading towards St. Louis for Mother’s Day, with a stop in Austin to visit with my family. We decided to take just over 6 weeks to make the trip, a very reasonable pace to keep that allows for stopping […]

Traveling Full Time To Increase Quality Family Time – Excuse #4

Apr 30, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard 3 Comments

Family, biological or intentional, are a mighty important part of life – whether you are focused on staying connected to them, or sometimes trying to stay as far from them as possible. And we often hear that placing a focus on family is a reason that people don’t travel as much as they would otherwise like.

Video Edition: Route 66 through Ash Fork, Arizona

Apr 30, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard 1 Comment

In our endeavor to follow Route 66 as closely as possible through Arizona, we took a detour off of I-40 at Exit 144 to explore the small town of Ash Fork, Arizona.

Campground Review: Mather Campground @ Grand Canyon National Park

Apr 29, 2009 by Chris Dunphy 5 Comments

At the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, there are two choices for camping – the beautifully wooded Mather Campground, or the crowded parking lot known as Trailer Village.

Video Edition: Route 66 in Arizona – The Black Mountains

Apr 27, 2009 by Cherie Ve Ard 2 Comments

The section of Route 66 starting near the western Arizona state line in the town of Golden Shores, passes through an authentic ghost town of Oatman and ends up in Kingman and is reported to be some of the most scenic, treacherous and mountainous sections of the historic highway.

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Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard - Technomadia.

Perpetually on the road since 2006 combining technology and travel (tech+nomad). Semi-retired now, working remotely runnng the Mobile Internet Resource Center - helping our nomadic community stay connected.

We currently split our time between our motoryacht slowing doing the Great Loop, our vintage bus in the west and a camper van to move between them.

Mobile Internet – It’s Our Passion!

We track and education on mobile internet options for RVers and cruisers as our 'day job'.

Visit our extensive resource center at: Mobile Internet Resource Center

To see our personal mobile internet setup:
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Our Newest Posts

Back to Van & Bus Life – Maryland to Florida to Arizona! Return to SKP Saguaro Co-Op & Zephyr!

Jan 22, 2026 By Cherie Ve Ard 4 Comments

2025 Travel Route & Year in Review

Dec 31, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 2 Comments

Best of the Chesapeake: Wrap Up of our 2025 Cruising Season – Favorite Stops & Statistics

Dec 9, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 6 Comments

Annapolis, Baltimore and More – Wrapping Up our 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cruising Adventures!

Nov 13, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 2 Comments

Eastern Bay & Chester River – Upper Chesapeake Bay Great Loop Cruising

Oct 25, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 1 Comment

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