Fourteen years ago today, I began my life as a full-time Technomad. At the time I first set off – I was imagining RVing all around the country, exploring Alaska, paramotoring in Baja, backpacking internationally, and contemplating maybe eventually living on a boat. My imagination was overflowing with dreams of all the potential adventures lying […]
Watching The RVers’ TV Show as an RVer: No Cable? No Satellite? – No Problem!
In case you haven’t heard – we are co-hosts of the upcoming TV series ‘The RVers‘, premiering on Discovery Channel on November 17th at 8AM eastern. We are going to be on TV! But… we’ve been full time travelers for over 13 years now, and “cord cutters” even before then. Just what IS this TV thing?! […]
Tour of our Boat’s Electrical System – Solar, Lithium & Inverters!
As technomads – our mobile electrical systems are the lifeblood of our various nomadic homes. After all – we need to keep all this technology powered up somehow. And while stock RV and boat electrical systems are often perfectly useable (if somewhat limited) – whenever we embrace a technomadic home we just can’t resist diving […]
Nearly Ten Years in the App Store – An Update on the Technomadia App Collection
For those who have been following along here for a while – you might remember that we launched our first app State Lines way back on May 17th, 2010. Wow – it’ll be 10 years next year! This was back in the day of the iPhone 3GS and iOS 3.0! It is amazing how much […]
[April Fools] How Do We Move the Car Between Ports While Cruising?
This was Chris’ April Fools Post.. enjoy the humor within 🙂 Here’s how we ACTUALLY move our vehicle between marinas: How We Hopscotch Our Car Between Marinas (For Realz…) When we first moved aboard our boat, Y-Not, we were not sure if it would be practical to keep our MINI Cooper that we’ve towed behind […]
Y-Not Upgrades & Modifications: Two Year Update and Bayliner 4788 Tour
It is hard to believe we’ve been (mostly) living on Y-Not for over two years now – wow! In that time, we’ve tackled some pretty big upgrades and maintenance projects. Some long planned, others scheduled by serendipity. And in the course of the past two years, we have managed to transform Y-Not into an incredibly […]
Is It Time For #vanlife?!? – Starting our Hunt For a Class-B Van RV
First off – lets answer the obvious questions… NO – we are not looking to sell or replace our vintage bus conversion Zephyr. Nor are we looking to give up on boat life aboard Y-Not! We still love the idea of spending roughly half the year on the water cruising in our boat, and half […]
”By All Rights, That Engine Should Start” – Suzuki DF15A Outboard & Customer Service Failure
Our first stop after leaving Jacksonville to cruise up the St. Johns River was Doctors Lake – only 12 nautical miles up stream. We figured this would be a good short first hop to get back into the groove of living on the water, and we had heard that you could dinghy ashore at Whitey’s […]
Boat Generator Upgrade: Replacing a Westerbeke 12.5 KW with a Northern Lights 6 KW in a Bayliner 4788
Our Bayliner 4788 came originally equipped with a hefty Westerbeke 12.5KW diesel generator. Like most stock boat and RV generators – it was sized so that absolutely everything on board could be turned on at once, giving people a “just like home” electrical experience. This means that you could crank up all three air conditioners, […]
The Math is Undeniable: Boondocking Is About To Be Busted
Please note the publish date of this post, and adjust your humor appropriately :). Though rushed, our recent RV trip from Florida to Texas was a reminder of just how much we love living on the road, and in Zephyr. Splitting our time between boat and bus has been our plan since the beginning, as […]
