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 […]
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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 […]
10 Most Popular Holiday Gift Items
For those curious about what people are buying this season, I thought I’d share my observations about what are the most popular items being shipping based on what I’m personally packing while we ‘workamp’ in Kansas. Lots of folks getting cameras for the holidays.. here are some that are most frequent buys and apparently incredible […]
Our Visit to Slab City & East Jesus
We had such as awesome time visiting and exploring Slab City – the remains of the abandoned Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap just outside Niland, California along the Salton Sea in the desert of southeast California. And I had big intentions of writing prolifically about it to share with you. However, I didn’t anticipate just […]
Salvation Mountain at Slab City – Leonard Knight’s Message of Love
Some people have a calling, a message they must deliver to the world. Most never act on this. But a rare few are overcome with purpose, and devote their lives to the call. Artist Leonard Knight heard such a call (“to my knowledge, it was on a Wednesday, about ten-thirty in the morning in 1967”), […]
Used 2009 Oliver Legacy Elite Travel Trailer – For Sale!
January 2012 Update: The trailer below has sold, however we occasionally hear of one that goes up for sale (only 45 were ever made). We do know of a solar powered one, similar to our Oliver, that might be available. Drop us a line at us@technomadia.com and we’ll put you in touch with the owners. PS. […]
Farewell Jeep, Hello Tundra
I’ve been a Jeep Liberty fan for as long as I’ve been nomadic. When I first started living on the road in April 2006, I traded my beloved Toyota Prius with a friend for her 2002 Jeep Liberty. Her Jeep was the perfect match for the small Tab Trailer that I had set up to […]
Road Ahead: Fall & Winter 2009
We’ve been hanging out in Southern California without much of a plan on which direction will be next. Things are finally began to gel once we made it a priority to spend holidays with family this year – which means heading eastward! Our projected nomadic path forward might look something like this: Tomorrow – Depart […]
Never having to pack
One of the advantages of traveling with your house, is that you generally never have to pack. Most full time RVers have painstakingly considered every single item they travel with for its use, space and functionality. Everything they think they could need is quite literally within an arm’s reach. When packing for a vacation or […]
Travelogue: Burning Man to Hemet, CA
Time Period: September 6 – October 24 Miles Driven: 1179 (not including non-RV trips) Post Burning Man we only had one specific goal – to make it to Hemet, CA for much needed down time. We had met some folks in the area during our travels earlier in the year that we only had the […]
