In just about a week, we will be ending our glorious winter in St. John, US Virgin Islands and returning to our little Oliver Travel Trailer parked in Florida. As the day has grown nearer, we’ve had quite a few folks ask us : Why on earth would you want to leave St. John? You […]
Nomadic Lifestyle
SXSW ‘Day of the Nomad’ Totally Rocked!
Wow. SXSW was completely awesome, and we’ve been running full steam since returning the to Virgin Islands last Thursday. We’re just getting around to processing through all the photos to share our experience. This post will concentrate on the Day of the Nomad events, and I’ll follow-up soon with a general SXSW wrap-up. The Day […]
SXSW Interactive – The Day of the Nomad
This afternoon we will be on our way to Austin, where we’re presenting at SXSW this weekend! We’re so excited.. and also intimidated.. to be entering so much chaos after 4 months of glorious chill time on a remote tropical island in a town of population 500. What a way to come out of hiding […]
An Introvert’s Guide to Meeting People While Traveling Full-Time
I test out consistently as a pretty extreme introvert, and I’ve actively worked my entire life to not allow that introversion to rule me by manifesting as shyness. These days, I generally consider myself an extroverted introvert when I’m in my comfort zone of being around a small group of like minded people. And I […]
Nomadic ≠Minimalist
I was at a loss for a blog topic this week, so I put out a call on Twitter & Facebook to see what folks where curious about asking us. We got lots of great questions! One that surprised us was a follower who thought our monthly expenses that we log were shockingly high. He […]
Where are you from?
A week or so ago we were attending a small musical performance not far from our seasonal rental cottage on St. John. As entertainers often do to generate repoire and energy with their audience, the main singer asks where people are from. He goes around the courtyard asking the short term tourists where they’re visiting […]
Things we’re not missing about RV’ing…
As some may have noticed by reading between the lines, this past year some aspects of our RV-based nomadic lifestyle began to wear a bit thin for us. After four years (five for Chris!) on the road together, our ping-pong route between Florida, St. Louis, Burning Man, and San Francisco had begun to develop ruts, […]
More Epic! More Awesome!
Since the start of the new year, I’ve seen a several prominent bloggers and tweeters asking that the words ‘Epic’ and ‘Awesome’ be removed from the blogging vocabulary in 2011. And sure, it is true that some folks are guilty of overusing these superlatives to describe things that are truthfully rather mundane. It may occasionally […]
The Minty Stormy Cloud
There’s a predominance of cloud based services that are tempting to embrace, particularly for us digital nomads looking to offload the burden of maintaining systems ourselves. Everything from back-up services, note taking, file sharing, document creation, e-mail, blogging and finances. A company offers a service, they provide the hardware, manpower and tools to host your […]
Online Nomadic Travel Communities
It seems recently that we as digitally nomadic travelers have been gifted with some invaluable resources to connect with each other to share tips, resources, inspiration and support. Here’s a resource list of some online nomadic communities we’ve stumbled into and utilize: NuNomad Tribe Just opened is a tribe from the awesome folks at NuNomad.com. […]
