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Green Your Travel – Environmental Nomadism

Mar 30, 2012 by Cherie Ve Ard 15 Comments

<— Read Chapter 4: Family Aspects of a Nomadic Lifestyle Read Chapter 6: Pets Can Be Nomadic Travelers Too! –> One concern we’ll hear from more eco-aware folks is that traveling full time would inevitably have too high of an environmental impact for them to leave home without bringing along a hefty burden of eco-guilt. This guilt is […]

Purge your Stuff, Shed the Anchors – Travel Full Time!

Jan 31, 2012 by Cherie Ve Ard 21 Comments

<— Read Chapter 2: Affording Full Time Travel Read Chapter 4: Family Aspects of a Nomadic Lifestyle –> We’re conditioned in our society to acquire stuff. Our culture and economy often seems to revolve around this quest. And no matter how large a space we have, we can easily fill that space with stuff.  It seems to be […]

Gift Ideas for RVers

Dec 15, 2011 by Cherie Ve Ard 7 Comments

With the holiday season well upon us, we’ve been asked by non-RVing friends what would be ideal gifts to give the RVers in their life. We’ve recently posted some ideas for physical products : Kitchen Gadgets Ideal for RVs Mobile Technology But all of this stuff does take up space (which is at a premium) […]

Kitchen Gadgets Ideal for RVs

Nov 25, 2011 by Cherie Ve Ard 16 Comments

Since moving into our bus, we’ve been reacquainting ourselves with the joys of kitchen gadgets. In our previous super tiny trailers, we didn’t have much room for such things.   With a little bit more space, we’ve been enjoying picking things out that match our lifestyle and serve meaningful functions in our household. All of the […]

Promise of Lithium #1: Lead Acid Battery Downsides

Oct 6, 2011 by Chris Dunphy 20 Comments

Lifeline AGM Battery

We’ve made a few teaser posts showing off our new lithium ion battery bank, but we’ve yet to properly explain why on earth we decided to venture off into such uncharted electrical territory instead of installing a more traditional flooded lead acid or AGM battery bank. This post is the start of a series explaining […]

10 Tips to Keep Connected: US Mobile Internet Options

Sep 21, 2011 by Cherie Ve Ard 17 Comments

One of the most common things we get asked about is for advice on staying connected to the net while on the road. For us, staying connected to the internet is essential to our mobile livelyhood. Our business depends on it and we heavily utilize social networking online to keep connected with friends, family and […]

How to find RV Parks, Campgrounds and Free Boondocking (Updated)

Oct 18, 2010 by Cherie Ve Ard 6 Comments

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 […]

12 Tips for Taking an RV to Burning Man

Aug 25, 2010 by Cherie Ve Ard 20 Comments

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, […]

Our iPhone App Essentials for RV Travel

Jul 21, 2010 by Technomadia 25 Comments

March 6, 2013: We have a big update to this post – check it out at Our iPhone & iPad App Essentials for RV Travel! As Technomads, it should be no surprise that we are mobile technology lovers. We love our iPhones (and yes, we did just both upgrade to the new iPhone 4), and we […]

Conserving Water While Traveling Full-Time

Jun 7, 2010 by Cherie Ve Ard 14 Comments

There’s some pretty major family stuff up in our lives that is taking our focus, so please excuse our absence from posting much recently and in the coming weeks. We’ll update on that when more is known, but for now – I’m reposting something we did on water conseveration from before this blog was as […]

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Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard - Technomadia.

Perpetually on the road since 2006 combining technology and travel (tech+nomad). Semi-retired now, working remotely runnng the Mobile Internet Resource Center - helping our nomadic community stay connected.

We currently split our time between our motoryacht slowing doing the Great Loop, our vintage bus in the west and a camper van to move between them.

Mobile Internet – It’s Our Passion!

We track and education on mobile internet options for RVers and cruisers as our 'day job'.

Visit our extensive resource center at: Mobile Internet Resource Center

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Our Newest Posts

Annapolis, Baltimore and More – Wrapping Up our 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cruising Adventures!

Nov 13, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 2 Comments

Eastern Bay & Chester River – Upper Chesapeake Bay Great Loop Cruising

Oct 25, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 1 Comment

Choptank River Adventures – Upper Eastern Chesapeake Bay: Great Loop Cruising

Oct 8, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 4 Comments

Anchoring vs Marinas: Which is Better?

Sep 19, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 2 Comments

Returning Down the Potomac River and Back to the Chesapeake Bay – Great Loop Side Trip

Sep 5, 2025 By Cherie Ve Ard 3 Comments

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We write mobile apps inspired by our own nomadic lifestyle.


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StatelinesState Lines tracks over 50 laws that change as you cross US state lines - beer, txt, seat belts, smoking, RVing, etc.
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