It’s been difficult to remember that it’s the holiday season here in the Virgin Islands. Heck, it’s hard to remember it’s winter here. The weather has been pretty much a constant mid 80s during the day and upper 70s at night (and up in our little mountain cottage, it’s pretty much mid-70s all the time). […]
Life on the Road
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 […]
Technomadic Dreams – Vintage 1996
My desire to live life as a technomad isn’t new – the idea of combining technology and travel has been an active dream of mine for as long as I can remember. Those dreams solidified one night in the early 90’s when I stumbled across the website and writings of Steve Roberts – the original […]
Sharing some St. John Warmth
Chances are, that most folks reading this are waking up to some awfully darn chilly weather. So, we’ll do our part to help spread the warmth from our tropical island life. Enjoy! Trunk Bay – St. John’s most famous beach – as seen from the Peace Hill hiking trail. Rated as one of the top […]
Nomad-Friendly Small Business Lawyer
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 […]
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, […]
