When contemplating hitting the road full time as a nomadic adventurer, many folks consider starting a small business to fund their lifestyle. The freedom of working on your own terms just meshes well with a nomad’s life. A bit about our small business And while I had already been running a small software company with […]
Life on the Road
4th Week on St. John
It’s hard to believe that yesterday we marked being in St. John for 4 weeks now. We’ve definitely settled into island life here. We also were shocked to discover last Friday that in 4 weeks, we had only had 3 beach days. That is just.. wrong! For the past week or so, we’ve been pulling […]
Announcing Our New eBook – Answers to the Common Excuses
Oftentimes when folks hear about how we live our lives on the road — we get the response You’re living my dream!’. To which we of course reply Then why aren’t you doing it too?’ We have been collecting the excuses we’ve heard over the years, and have been chronicling in this blog our Answers […]
Snapshots of St. John, US Virgin Islands
We’ve not yet gotten out with the good camera to take better framed photos.. so for now we’ll share with you some of the snap-shots we’ve taken as we’ve gotten out a bit. All photos are on Flickr – feel free to click-thru for higher resolution. Over in Cruz Bay – sailboats harbored. Over in […]
We’re Presenting at SXSW Interactive 2011!
On the day after we landed in St. John – we got the word from the SXSW Interactive selection committee that our proposal on Technomadism was accepted for SXSW 2011! It is quite an honor to be one of the few hundred selected out of over 2500 proposals. We owe much gratitude to all of […]
The Packing List
Before we left for St. John we set a goal of only checking 2 bags, each being under 50 lbs. Our purpose was not only to reduce baggage fees, but also to make us ultra conscious about what we packed. We wanted to find a balance between being comfortable in St. John with our familiar stuff, […]
Getting Settled in St. John
Wow. Can’t believe we’ve already been in St. John a week. And more so, just how much we’ve gotten accomplished since we’ve been here. Connectivity Our first and most important task was getting an internet solution installed. Chris did a lot of research into our options, which included DSL, cellular via AT&T or Sprint, line […]
Travelogue: San Francisco to St. John
Time period: Oct 7, 2010 – March 30, 2011 Miles traveled by RV: 3140 Miles traveled in total: 4405 While parked in San Francisco hanging out with friends post Burning Man, we were trying to figure out what was next for us. After a very hectic summer of a lot of physical and emotional movement […]
Kiki’s First Flight
So, my people decided that we are going to live for a while in a place called St. John, and apparently we couldn’t just drive there – like we do everywhere else we go. They told me we’d have to either fly… or swim. Since I don’t do that water thing, guess we were flying […]
Welcome to the Frontier!
We arrived later than expected to US Virgin Island of St. John, after a very rough three-landing attempt into St. Thomas that included two last minute aborted landings, an insanely scary amount of turbulence through ‘swirling winds’ and an unscheduled stop in San Juan to wait out the rough weather. We arrived to our little […]
