Storage units are like security blankets for baby nomads. So many of us head out on the road with the core bits of our former stationary life crammed into a big “climate controlled” box somewhere, ready and waiting just in case nomadic life doesn’t work out. For others, it is more about punting – putting […]
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Ramblings: Tales from Nomads – Breaking Up With Normal
Meet Brenda & Karin A random idea around the pool lead to Brenda & Karin starting to downsize their lives to full time RV so they could see their family more often. In December 2012, after 2.5 years of planning, they hit the road. We caught up with them 2 months later for this video […]
Millenicom & Sprint Break Up, Gets Back Together, Then Breaks Up Again
For those following mobile internet options, it’s been a head spinning bad teenage romance novel this past week. Millenicom Unlimited customers, who’s plans were on the Sprint footprint, were served a cold dish on October 18th: Sprint has discontinued service to our gateway provider, unfortunately that means we can no longer provide the Unlimited or […]
Cedar Key – Here we Come!
Once we get through the storage unit purge this week, we’ll be starting a cross country repositioning with a destination of Cedar Key, Florida by Christmas! Yup, we’re returning to our waterfront spot in that chill place of gorgeous sunsets. And yes, yet again, there’ll be a bit of a convergence of fellow full timing […]
Change Your Office View: Full Time RVing Workspaces
A couple weeks ago a reader chatted us up and asked if we had any resources about workspaces other RVers have created. Our immediate thought was… what a great idea for a series! So off I went to poke some fellow working-on-the-road RVers for photos of their workspaces to start creating a new little corner […]
Goodbye Cape Blanco – Hello Sacramento!
With our extension at the lighthouse coming to an end, and the reality of the cross country drive to Florida by the end of the year settling in – it was time to plot our escape and get on with the next adventure of clearing out Chris’ storage unit in Sacramento. We left Cape Blano […]
Where are the LTE Boosters???
Without our two cellular boosters, our six weeks spent at Cape Blanco Lighthouse would not have been quite the serene paradise that it had been. It would have been maddening. Others staying at Cape Blanco State Park had taken to calling the bluff side picnic area a short walk down the road “the phone booth” […]
Lighthouses Guide More Than Ships
There have been few experiences so far in our nomadic journey where we leave already having set an intention to return someday. And yet – we have already signed up to return as hosts at Cape Blanco next year. I’ve been giving a lot of thought as to why I felt so connected and so […]
Failure Analysis: Did a Baldwin PA2721 Filter Failure Kill our 8V71 Engine?
The story of our summer was our major breakdown in remote Montana, and the subsequent full engine rebuild we carried out at Interstate PowerSystems in Billings, MT. The question we have been asked a million times since we first posted about the breakdown has been – “just what went wrong?” The symptoms defied a clear […]
Tips and Tricks for a Versatile RVing Wardrobe
More than likely, your RV is going to have less storage space than you had in your more traditional home. Assembling a versatile wardrobe to take on the road is part of almost every nomad’s journey. This was a tough one for me. Before I hit the road I had a huge dresser, a huge […]
