Local Voices for Obama is a non-profit group working with Truth and Hope PAC, to produce a series of 60 second ‘commercials’ featuring local voices in support of Obama. It’s an attempt to reach real people via real people in real ways in critical swing states. It’s really an amazing project – and all of […]
Oliver Travel Trailer (July 2008 - May 2011)
Location: Fallon, NV
It’s official – Chris and I are serving as the full time presence of the Obama for America Campaign in Fallon, NV. The locals seem to like us and have impressed upon the campaign the importance of having someone here to lead the charge and begged to specifically keep us. *gulp* Our host family is […]
Las Vegas Connections?
We have volunteered to the Obama campaign in Las Vegas, we’re looking for an affordable way to stay there. With the long hours we’ll be pulling, we won’t actually be in the trailer much – so it would be silly (and costly) to pay for a commercial RV Park. Does anyone know anyone in Las […]
Connecting the Dots
Travel has been a part of my life since I was quite young. My father moved around and traveled quite a bit in his youth, so I think I was born with wanderlust in my bloodstream. I was fortunate as a youngster to have the opportunity to travel. Family trips to see the grandparents, road […]
Travelogue: Reno to San Francisco
When we last left our technomadic adventurers, they had just completed 12 days at Burning Man 2008 and joined up with the Oliver Road Crew for the International Camel Races in Virginia City, NV. Due to popular demand, here are pictures of actual camels! From the Camel Races, we ventured on to Carson City to […]
Nomadic Thoughts: Two Month Mark
There’s something about the two month mark into a nomadic journey. It’s the point where your mind shifts from seeing the adventure as some sort of extended vacation to it being life. For the first several weeks, there are adjustments – but it’s easy enough see them as temporary. Then, something around 2 months happens […]
Phone Car Tows and Oliver
While at Burning Man on my deep playa art tour, I encountered a giant red phone. I really didn’t think all that much of it.. because stuff like that is kinda the more the norm than the unexpected out there. But what I didn’t expect was to encounter the The Phone Car here in Virginia […]
Burning Man: Our Own Theme Camp
One of the things I had marked as having room for improvement post-Burning Man last year about my experience was my camp situation. We ended up camped on the perimeter of a camp of people where we only knew a couple of folks. There was no common theme to bring people together, and towards the […]
Trusting in Nomadic Serendipity
Nomadic Serendipity is a primary fuel of adventuring. It was difficult for me last year when we set of to really trust in it though. But now, I thrive on it. When we got out back to Reno earlier in the week, we had been playing phone/message tag with the Oliver road crew (made of […]
Art of Burning Man 2008
I just posted a number of pictures from Burning Man 2008. You can view them on Flickr. Here I’ll highlight a few of the art pieces. I really didn’t find a lot of the art this year to be very ‘wow’ – and from reading reviews of Burning Man elsewhere, apparently it wasn’t just me. […]
