Not everyday on the road is full of exciting new adventures. Take this past week for example – we’ve literally been couch sloths. We’re currently in St. Louis staying with Chris’ family, and this week we’re house sitting while his folks are on vacation. Between recovering from the long physical hours of a month working […]
Chapters
Kiki’s First Year
My people keep posting all about their adventures.. but what about me? It’s about time for some kitten! Anyone else notice how readership on Technomadia went up after Chris & Cherie added me to their lives? 2009 was my first year – and I spent it entirely growing up on the road! I’ve been all […]
Our 2009 Travel Route
Though we have been technomadic for several years now, 2009 was our first full year living on the road and in our trailer without any other physical place to call ‘home’ – in 2007 and 2008 (click for the past year summary posts) we spent part of each winter living in and working to sell […]
Travelogue: Hemet, CA to St. Louis
Time Period: Oct 25 – Dec 31, 2009 Miles Driven: 2125 With plans to spend the holidays with family in the St. Louis area, we looked ahead to doing a mid-country run very much similar to the path we took earlier in the year. We decided to sign on to workamp at Amazon’s distribution center in […]
Featured on Gizmodo: Santa’s Elves at Amazon.com
While we joked that working as seasonal elves at Amazon for the past month felt more like being an investigative reporter than a workamper – we never imagined that our retelling of our experience would be of interest outside of our blog. We were thrilled when Joel Johnson of Gizmodo contacted us earlier this week to […]
Digital Fasting
One of the things that worried us most about taking the workamping gig at Amazon’s distribution center in Kansas was their strict no cell phone policy. That would mean for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have no contact with the outside world – a very weird concept for us digital nomads. […]
Then & Now
Four years ago, I lived in a large luxurious two bedroom top floor corner condo located in the heart of San Francisco – walking distance to everything. I had a panoramic view of downtown out my living room windows (see the photo above), and I could watch the fog spilling over Twin Peaks from bed. […]
Road Ahead: Winter 2010
In the next week, we will end our workamping gig at Amazon.com‘s distribution center in Kansas and head on to St. Louis to spend the holidays with family. We’re also anxious to be reunited with our kitty, Kiki – we left her there with Chris’ parents when we visited for Thanksgiving, instead of putting her […]
Keeping Vampire Hours
Working a night shift has been a most interesting experience in body & mind hacking. My circadian rhythm has totally adjusted – however it stills feels odd to go to bed after sunrise, and wake up just before sunset. We picked the night shift as I needed to be at least available to my regular […]
Inside Amazon.com’s Coffeyville Warehouse
We’ve been “workamping” at Amazon.com’s Coffeyville Kansas fulfillment center since November 22. One of Amazon’s staffing agencies, ExpressPro, has for the past several years organized bringing in hundreds of RV-living workampers to help out in Amazon’s peak season. Express and Amazon pay camping fees, and provide a “honey wagon” tank dumping service for sites without […]
