So you’ve decided to become a nomad, and that taking your house with you is your ideal form of travel. Great! But now comes a potentially overwhelming decision – what kind of recreational vehicle will you choose to make into your full time home on wheels? We’re often asked this question, and there is no […]
Nomadic Lifestyle
Camp Nomadia at Burning Man 2009
In 2008, Chris and I decided to host a Burning Man theme camp for other nomadic folks like ourselves. We applied for official placement with Burning Man, and got it. We manage to gather around 25 folks to camp with us, most of them aspiring nomads, though not many others were living full-time on the […]
Full Time Travel Guide to Community – Excuse #7
Us humans are social creatures, and we tend form and value communities of like minded people. Whether it be via hobbies, spirituality, family, friends, special interests, sports, school, work, volunteerism, or what not – when you live in a stationary place, you tend to form connections with people around you that become important to you, […]
5 Journeys to Follow
One of the wonderful things about living a life on your own terms, is getting to connect with others doing the same. Below is a list of folks we’ve encountered who are currently undertaking the transition to gearing their lives to exit the rat race and embrace a life of full time travel. We’re inspired […]
Living on NST – Nomadic Standard Time
Asking us about our upcoming travel plans is akin to asking for a weather forecast. We may have a fairly accurate idea of what the next few hours may hold, and that there is a chance of some snow in the winter. But the details in between are hard to pin down, particularly more than […]
It’s Not an Extended Vacation
A common misconception about our technomadic lifestyle is that we’re on an extended vacation. I think this comes from just how engrained the concept of travel is with being in vacation mode. Vacation: a respite or a time of respite from something We’re not taking a respite from anything, nevermind something. Instead, we’re designing a lifestyle […]
Your Input Valued: The Location Independent & Digital Nomad Survey
Are you currently living a technomadic life, similar to us? That is, making your own life with a location independent career and perhaps even a bit of nomadism tossed in? Do you consider yourself any bit a Digital Location Independent Lifestyle Designing NuNomad (check the link for guidance)? Or, are you visiting our website in part […]
Digital Nomad Location Independent Lifestyle Designing NuNomads
When we started our technomadic journey back in 2006, we thought it would be awesome to connect with others doing similar things. We looked around, and couldn’t find too much organized activity out there on the interwebs. But it seems since there’s been an explosion of awareness and communities of folks doing things similar to […]
3 Tips to Optimize Your Website for Mobile Bandwidth
As full time technomads we’re often dependent upon cellular data signals and occasional open WiFi hotspots for our bandwidth. With variable speeds (our Sprint datacard can range in speeds reminscent of 2400 baud dial-up modems all the way up to DSL), shaky connections and monthly bandwidth caps, we likely experience the internet in a slightly different way […]
Two Year Nomadiversary
Two years ago today – on May 10, 2007 – we embarked on our nomadic adventures together. Chris had already been “officially nomadic” for a bit over a year, having started his solo travels in April 2006. A few months later we first connected online, and in October we met in person and started dating. […]
