Ever since we hit the road together almost 3 years ago (wow – time flies!), I’ve dreamed of being part of a nomadic community – we all roll on our own paths, and have convergences from time to time to share stories, resources and friendship. After an initial search for such a community, I was […]
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Living via Solar Power in an RV (Our Oliver Travel Trailer Install – 2008-2011)
2012 Update: This post was written based off our last RV – a 17′ Oliver Travel Trailer that was designed for being off grid. After 3 years of full time travel in the Oliver, in June 2011 we moved into a 35′ vintage bus to create something more versatile. We are in the process of […]
Technomadic Essentials: Wine-In-A-Box
We have a lot of gear and technology that we consider essential to our technomadic lifestyle. It is hard to imagine traveling like we do without our computers, our iPhones, our solar panels, or our onboard media server.
But today I want to at last reveal what we consider to be our most essential piece of onboard equipment. In some ways, it embodies the pinacle of human technological innovation.
Nothing we have on board can match the overwhelming utility and versatility of… Wine-In-A-Box!
Road Ahead: Spring 2010
We’ve been enjoying watching spring bloom right around us in Austin, especially now that the chaos of SXSW has simmered down. We’ve been very productive on a few projects, spending time with Cherie’s brother and making new friends. Our travel plans for the next few months are starting to shape up: April: At the end […]
Travelogue: Orlando to Austin (SXSW)
Time Frame: March 7 – 21, 2010 Miles Driven: 1229 After an extended stay in Florida catching up with family and friends, checking out sail boats and making new friends – we decided to head on to Austin to be in the area while SXSW Interactive was going on. With so many bloggers and friends […]
US Census 2010: Counting Nomads
The timing was perfect, just as I was researching how full time travelers should make sure they get counted in US 2010 Census, a census enumerator shows up at our campsite in Austin, TX. With a home that moves and no place that we consider a single home base, we were curious as to where […]
Pondering New Challenges
This coming May, we will mark our third nomadiversary of being on the road together. Over the past three years we have vastly simplified our lives. We have experimented with, refined, and tweaked our little RV into our ideal travel vessel. We have become skilled at off-grid living. We have learned to set a travel […]
Heading to Austin to (Not) Attend SXSW
We are currently enroute to Austin, Texas to (not) attend South by Southwest (SXSW). SXSW is a huge convention/festival combining independent music, film and emerging technologies – all rolled into the weirdness only Austin can provide. We’ve never been, although we keep getting told it’s exactly our kind of thing. Unfortunately, we’ll not be attending […]
Workamping at Amazon.com pre CamperForce – Was it Worth it?
We spent the last part of 2009 trying out workamping at Amazon.com’s fullfillment center in Coffeyville, Kansas. We finally have enough of the details brought together to share our assessment about the financial rewards, hours involved and challenges. As we generally earn our income doing various technical & marketing consulting, both remotely online and onsite, […]
Ripples of Serendipity
Cherie and I get emails all the time from people who want to meet us while we are passing through their area. Some great connections and conversations have come about via “meeting our fans”, and only rarely have we had any awkward and/or boring encounters. Meeting so many and such diverse cool people is one […]
