A week or so ago we were attending a small musical performance not far from our seasonal rental cottage on St. John. As entertainers often do to generate repoire and energy with their audience, the main singer asks where people are from. He goes around the courtyard asking the short term tourists where they’re visiting […]
Nomadic Lifestyle
Things we’re not missing about RV’ing…
As some may have noticed by reading between the lines, this past year some aspects of our RV-based nomadic lifestyle began to wear a bit thin for us. After four years (five for Chris!) on the road together, our ping-pong route between Florida, St. Louis, Burning Man, and San Francisco had begun to develop ruts, […]
More Epic! More Awesome!
Since the start of the new year, I’ve seen a several prominent bloggers and tweeters asking that the words ‘Epic’ and ‘Awesome’ be removed from the blogging vocabulary in 2011. And sure, it is true that some folks are guilty of overusing these superlatives to describe things that are truthfully rather mundane. It may occasionally […]
The Minty Stormy Cloud
There’s a predominance of cloud based services that are tempting to embrace, particularly for us digital nomads looking to offload the burden of maintaining systems ourselves. Everything from back-up services, note taking, file sharing, document creation, e-mail, blogging and finances. A company offers a service, they provide the hardware, manpower and tools to host your […]
Online Nomadic Travel Communities
It seems recently that we as digitally nomadic travelers have been gifted with some invaluable resources to connect with each other to share tips, resources, inspiration and support. Here’s a resource list of some online nomadic communities we’ve stumbled into and utilize: NuNomad Tribe Just opened is a tribe from the awesome folks at NuNomad.com. […]
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 […]
Not Letting Labels Hold You Back
I’ve often told folks that: Labels are best when they are descriptions, not prescriptions. Whenever I’m exploring a new hobby, lifestyle or professional pursuit, I tend to take on the labels associated with it to relate the experience to others. Terms like nomad, technomad, RVer, geek, location independent, fire dancer, traveler, blogger are labels that […]
How to find RV Parks, Campgrounds and Free Boondocking (Updated)
Whether you plan in advance for your camping or wing it, here are the tools that we use in our search for ideal camp spots. Unfortunately, there does not yet seem to be one unified resource listing all camping opportunities, so we utilize many different resources. We released the first version of this guide in […]
Evolving Models of Community
My biggest struggle with a nomadic lifestyle when I first hit the road over 3 years ago was a deep sense of loss of community. I was leaving a community in Florida that I had invested in for over 10 years. There’s something uniquely special about a local, re-occurring community. Those people you can contact […]
12 Tips for Taking an RV to Burning Man
We have an updated version of this article with even more hints and tips for taking an RV to Burning Man – 16 Tips for taking an RV to Burning Man. An often asked piece of advice we give is tips on taking an RV to Burning Man. With a harsh environment, lots of alkaline dust, […]
