It is looking pretty certain that by this time tomorrow, we will have placed an order for a custom-built Oliver Travel Trailer. We’ve considered a lot of alternatives, and it really feels like this is the best choice for our next home. Here are my thoughts on the other options we’ve considered: Stop Nomading: I […]
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Oliver Upgrades & Downgrades
Here is my current rough outline of upgrades (and downgrades) we will be asking to have done to the Oliver Travel Trailer that we are ordering… Downgrades: Satellite Television Antenna: I need to clear up roof space for the solar system, and I really could care less about television. That’s what Netflix is for… Entertainment […]
RV & Solar – Electric Wiring Issues
There are a few important things to know about electricity when wiring up an RV or solar electric system. Electrical energy (Watts) is is determined by multiplying voltage (Volts) by current (Amps). This means that as you decrease the voltage on a wire, the current required to send the same amount of power increases. For […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Our 2009 Travel Route
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 […]
The Domestic Nomad
If you read the blogs of a lot of self-proclaimed nomads, lifestyle designers and location independent professionals – you could easily get a sense that international travel and global nomadism is the holy grail of every long term perpetual traveler. We’re here to stand up and say – being a Domestic Nomad is an equally […]
The St. Louis RV Vacation & Travel Show
Things we saw last week at the St. Louis RV Vacation & Travel Show:
Fake Fireplaces, Giant TV’s, Mobile Man Caves, Central Vacuum Systems
Things we didn’t see any of:
Solar Panels, Energy Efficient Lighting, Composting Toilets, Camper Vans
Though we have been full time RV dwellers for years now, neither of us had ever been to an actual RV show. When we saw that “one of the largest public RV shows in the country” would be happening last week while we were still in St. Louis, we knew that we would have to check it out.
We were hoping to get exposed to variety of RVs of different sizes and styles, and to check out a wide range of the latest products and technologies for mobile living.
Overall, we were sorely disappointed.
There were however plenty of monster fifth wheels and Class-A RVs on display with a focus on ostentatious excess instead of efficient mobile living. One brand was using the tagline “Leave Nothing Behind” – and that was indeed a design philosophy on display at the show.