Travel has been a part of my life since I was quite young. My father moved around and traveled quite a bit in his youth, so I think I was born with wanderlust in my bloodstream. I was fortunate as a youngster to have the opportunity to travel. Family trips to see the grandparents, road […]
Chapters
Travelogue: Reno to San Francisco
When we last left our technomadic adventurers, they had just completed 12 days at Burning Man 2008 and joined up with the Oliver Road Crew for the International Camel Races in Virginia City, NV. Due to popular demand, here are pictures of actual camels! From the Camel Races, we ventured on to Carson City to […]
Nomadic Thoughts: Two Month Mark
There’s something about the two month mark into a nomadic journey. It’s the point where your mind shifts from seeing the adventure as some sort of extended vacation to it being life. For the first several weeks, there are adjustments – but it’s easy enough see them as temporary. Then, something around 2 months happens […]
Phone Car Tows and Oliver
While at Burning Man on my deep playa art tour, I encountered a giant red phone. I really didn’t think all that much of it.. because stuff like that is kinda the more the norm than the unexpected out there. But what I didn’t expect was to encounter the The Phone Car here in Virginia […]
Burning Man: Our Own Theme Camp
One of the things I had marked as having room for improvement post-Burning Man last year about my experience was my camp situation. We ended up camped on the perimeter of a camp of people where we only knew a couple of folks. There was no common theme to bring people together, and towards the […]
Trusting in Nomadic Serendipity
Nomadic Serendipity is a primary fuel of adventuring. It was difficult for me last year when we set of to really trust in it though. But now, I thrive on it. When we got out back to Reno earlier in the week, we had been playing phone/message tag with the Oliver road crew (made of […]
Art of Burning Man 2008
I just posted a number of pictures from Burning Man 2008. You can view them on Flickr. Here I’ll highlight a few of the art pieces. I really didn’t find a lot of the art this year to be very ‘wow’ – and from reading reviews of Burning Man elsewhere, apparently it wasn’t just me. […]
Burning Man: Burn Night
Our intentions for Burn night: – Have a more formal commitment ceremony at our camp at sunset, with our campmates and friends as witnesses (last year, it was completely private between Chris and I). – Walk to the Man in our magnificent wedding gear that created for us. – I would wear stuff under my […]
Hello from the Playa
We arrived last evening to the playa at sunset.. and it’s absolutely gorgeous here. Weather has been mild, didn’t even need the AC this afternoon. Hardly any wind today or dust. Excellent day to setup camp and relax. The city is springing to life around us. We realized this morning that it’s likely the first […]
Travelogue: South Dakota to California
Our trip from St. Louis to California went by so quickly. It was a pretty rush trip after a brief stop over in Vermillion, South Dakota – where the highlights were getting my driver’s license and attending a demolition derby that took place right next door to our camp spot in the city’s free campground. […]
