Though we have been technomadic for several years now, 2009 was our first full year living on the road and in our trailer without any other physical place to call ‘home’ – in 2007 and 2008 (click for the past year summary posts) we spent part of each winter living in and working to sell […]
Oliver Travel Trailer (July 2008 - May 2011)
Travelogue: Hemet, CA to St. Louis
Time Period: Oct 25 – Dec 31, 2009 Miles Driven: 2125 With plans to spend the holidays with family in the St. Louis area, we looked ahead to doing a mid-country run very much similar to the path we took earlier in the year. We decided to sign on to workamp at Amazon’s distribution center in […]
Featured on Gizmodo: Santa’s Elves at Amazon.com
While we joked that working as seasonal elves at Amazon for the past month felt more like being an investigative reporter than a workamper – we never imagined that our retelling of our experience would be of interest outside of our blog. We were thrilled when Joel Johnson of Gizmodo contacted us earlier this week to […]
Digital Fasting
One of the things that worried us most about taking the workamping gig at Amazon’s distribution center in Kansas was their strict no cell phone policy. That would mean for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have no contact with the outside world – a very weird concept for us digital nomads. […]
Then & Now
Four years ago, I lived in a large luxurious two bedroom top floor corner condo located in the heart of San Francisco – walking distance to everything. I had a panoramic view of downtown out my living room windows (see the photo above), and I could watch the fog spilling over Twin Peaks from bed. […]
Road Ahead: Winter 2010
In the next week, we will end our workamping gig at Amazon.com‘s distribution center in Kansas and head on to St. Louis to spend the holidays with family. We’re also anxious to be reunited with our kitty, Kiki – we left her there with Chris’ parents when we visited for Thanksgiving, instead of putting her […]
Keeping Vampire Hours
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 […]
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 […]
