You know in your head, how you can have two stories – and not realize they are deeply intertwined until you go to write them? When I was rough sketching this series out, 2014 was going to be about launching things – but I was struggling to find the lesson. The real lesson wouldn’t come […]
Life on the Road
Retrospective: 2013 – Joy Your Day
Not gonna lie, 2013 was a hard year. The first part spent with my father on hospice, and then his passing and all the logistics that come with that. I lost not only my dad, but a best friend. And a business partner of nearly 20 years. My mentor. I had to put the emotions […]
Retrospective: 2012 – The Important Things
2012 started with the news that my father’s cancer had come back, and the count down was on for his last days with us. Our consciously constructed nomadic life allowed us to shift our focus to what mattered. We based our time in Florida to be near him most of the year, help with his […]
Retrospective: 2011 – Embracing Serendipity
When we started our blog at Technomadia, Chris used the tagline ‘Adventures in Nomadic Serendipity’. While I’ve lived a pretty adventurous life even before him, I was an overplanner. I left little room for chance. And when plans didn’t go as intended, I was stressed. To set off on this new adventure, I had to […]
Retrospective: 2010 – Don’t Get Trapped by Labels
Life is about change. That is how we explore who we are. It’s how we grow. It’s how we adapt to the world that is evolving around us. And we as humans tend to like to assign labels to describe who we are. You might take on labels that describe your career, your relationships, your […]
Retrospective: 2009 – Community
Leaving friends, family and community behind to hit the road is honestly, tough. As an introvert, I crave a few close deep connections over lots of lighter ones. And I value continuity and regular interaction. And I didn’t have much of that left in Florida when I met Chris. Much of my own community had […]
Retrospective: 2008 – Scarcity vs Abundance
Hitting the road meant leaving my bubble, where my identity was rooted. I was now regularly meeting new amazing people across the country and constantly navigating new things. That should be exciting, right? My career, my social network, my place in the world was in transition. I had left my foundation behind. I had given […]
Retrospective: 2007 – Overcoming Obstacles
Chris had hit the road solo just a year prior in a tiny little travel trailer pulled by a Jeep (he just marked 16 years on the road). We met online just a couple months later, and we spent much of our time ‘dating’ by meeting up across the country and us trialing traveling together […]
New Internet Video, Blog Comments Are Back & General Updates
Last month, our host of this site since we started it way back in 2007 – DreamHost – moved us from our legacy server to a new one. The website went completely down in the process, but thankfully they were able to restore the content and most of the formatting. However, for reasons unexplained – […]
16th Nomadiversary: Celebrating Sweet Sixteen!
What is it with the passage of time? It seems like it was forever ago that we first got vaccinated, as chronicled in my 15th Nomadiversary post last year. But really, it was just over a year ago. Last year – I was noting that we had spent just four nights outside of Florida in […]
