I don’t have to describe the bigger challenges of the past couple of years. We’ve all gone through them. For us, it meant a more homebased life living aboard Y-Not in Sanford. Overall, despite the craziness of the world at large – we’ve been incredibly fortunate. All our years on … | Continue reading
After so many lessons on the road over the years, I’d say 2019 was a year of tremendous balance. It wasn’t without obstacles. But we navigated them without overwhelm thanks to the skillsets we had built already. We focused on the important things. We evacuated, again, for another … | Continue reading
Our first year of boat ownership was definitely not without a huge learning curve. And despite the challenges, we were loving it. At the beginning of 2018, it was time to get back to our intentions – continue our Great Loop and integrate in part of the year with RVing. Fresh out … | Continue reading
After 10 years on the road in various RVs, we decided to switch it up by getting a boat in 2017. While we had established ourselves as ‘experts’ in the RV space, we were now Strangers in a Strange Land.. err.. water. We were complete newbies having gone from in inflatible kayak t … | Continue reading
A Nomad, much like a Wizard, arrives precisely when they are meant to. They are never late, nor are they early. 2016 was a pretty well darn balanced year for us, after the tumultuous year prior. We had successfully reset, and enjoyed a year of discovery by RV and multiple alterna … | Continue reading
For all the awesome that 2014 was in terms of productivity, adventure and community – we paid for it in spades in 2015. We came into the year on a high. We were creating things, things that mattered and were being well received. By spring time Xscapers was launched to the world, … | Continue reading
You know in your head, how you can have two stories – and not realize they are deeply intertwined until you go to write them? When I was rough sketching this series out, 2014 was going to be about launching things – but I was struggling to find the lesson. The real lesson wouldn’ … | Continue reading
Not gonna lie, 2013 was a hard year. The first part spent with my father on hospice, and then his passing and all the logistics that come with that. I lost not only my dad, but a best friend. And a business partner of nearly 20 years. My mentor. I had to put the emotions […] The … | Continue reading
2012 started with the news that my father’s cancer had come back, and the count down was on for his last days with us. Our consciously constructed nomadic life allowed us to shift our focus to what mattered. We based our time in Florida to be near him most of the year, help with … | Continue reading
When we started our blog at Technomadia, Chris used the tagline ‘Adventures in Nomadic Serendipity’. While I’ve lived a pretty adventurous life even before him, I was an overplanner. I left little room for chance. And when plans didn’t go as intended, I was stressed. To set off o … | Continue reading
Life is about change. That is how we explore who we are. It’s how we grow. It’s how we adapt to the world that is evolving around us. And we as humans tend to like to assign labels to describe who we are. You might take on labels that describe your career, your relationships, you … | Continue reading
Leaving friends, family and community behind to hit the road is honestly, tough. As an introvert, I crave a few close deep connections over lots of lighter ones. And I value continuity and regular interaction. And I didn’t have much of that left in Florida when I met Chris. Much … | Continue reading
Hitting the road meant leaving my bubble, where my identity was rooted. I was now regularly meeting new amazing people across the country and constantly navigating new things. That should be exciting, right? My career, my social network, my place in the world was in transition. I … | Continue reading
On May 10, I’ll be marking 15 years since I gave up my comfortable beachside home in Florida to hit the road full time with this dude I met on a Prius forum. As I lead up to that milestone, I’m going to go back in time and recount some of the lessons and moments […] The post Retr … | Continue reading
Last month, our host of this site since we started it way back in 2007 – DreamHost – moved us from our legacy server to a new one. The website went completely down in the process, but thankfully they were able to restore the content and most of the formatting. However, for reason … | Continue reading
What is it with the passage of time? It seems like it was forever ago that we first got vaccinated, as chronicled in my 15th Nomadiversary post last year. But really, it was just over a year ago. Last year – I was noting that we had spent just four nights outside of Florida in [… … | Continue reading
As we approach our 16th year on the road, it seems we have built a nomadic fleet. And we’ve received a lot of questions on how it’s working out to manage a boat, a van and a bus. The quick answer – far better than we ever imagined. Before we left Zephyr behind in Arizona […] The … | Continue reading
This week marks five years since we took ownership of Y-Not, our 1999 Bayliner 4788. Crazy how time flies! And what an incredible journey into the cruising lifestyle it has been! It’s been a few years since we’ve done a major update on boat improvements, projects and modification … | Continue reading
We have arrived back to Sanford to Y-Not, and are getting settled back into boat life.. and boat projects! So before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s do a little re-cap of our last month of our extended van meandering. First, the video version: Xscapers New Years Eve & Ba … | Continue reading
Before we left Benson, we filmed a quick video tour of the interior of Zephyr since it’s been so long since we’ve shared much about our vintage bus conversion. So, here it is: If you’d prefer a photo walk-thru or want more information on the various projects we’ve done over the y … | Continue reading
We picked Benson, Arizona as our RV winter home base for many reasons – not the least of which is how much we love SKP Saguaro Co-Op RV Park. It’s a great place to leave Zephyr behind and rejoin up for winter adventures. Benson itself offers all of the basic amenities you might n … | Continue reading
It’s the end of another year, and a time to reflect back before moving on. This annual tradition of posts has become part of the fun of sharing. 2021 wraps up 15 years on the road for us together. An amazing number to ponder. We began dating in late 2006, and our entire relations … | Continue reading
Now that we’re back to Zephyr at our winter home base in Benson, AZ – it was time to tackle a pretty major pending project we had left from our last visit. When got Zephyr out of storage in 2019, we were disappointed to discover that the our two front Flexsteel captains chairs we … | Continue reading
Lots of miles and lots of memories to catch you up on. But first, we’ve actually been back in Benson, AZ and the bus just over a month now. And before time gets away from us, I wanted to at least recap the trip getting here. Our last extensive travelogue left us just leaving New … | Continue reading
We have now owned our 2020.5 Winnebago Travato GL almost a year, and we had a 2016 version of the model before that starting in 2019. In our years of traveling in our van for both short and extended trips (including the 3 months cross country trip we just competed), we’ve collect … | Continue reading
Before we bought our boat Y-Not in 2017, we of course deeply researched the Bayliner 4788 model. And we were very intrigued when we found posts from a few owners who had added hot tubs to the flybridge successfully. We love getting in hot water – would we be able to someday add a … | Continue reading
Let’s see.. where were we? Oh right, we just spent a couple days exploring the Big Apple, parked right downtown. And now it’s time to head into New England for some pre-planned meetups with family and friends. As usual, here’s the quick video recap of this segment of our summer v … | Continue reading
Thus far on this van trip explored northern Florida and Georgia, a couple weeks along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and then re-entered civilization in Virginia to continue east. After our stop in Philadelphia, Chris was diligently trying to route us around the traffic in the New York … | Continue reading
Last we left you, we had just spent two weeks exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway. So let’s pick up where we left off, which was literally heading across the street and entering the Skyline Drive, part of Shenandoah National Park and then heading east. First, the video version: Shen … | Continue reading
We shared recently about our amazing two week journey exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway in our Travato van conversion, so in this post we’re going to share some general tips for RVing this scenic and historic mountain drive. First, our video version of these tips: Tip 1: Ideal RV … | Continue reading
In continuing our summer van adventure, we departed our Harvest Hosts stay in South Carolina and made our way to provision for our next adventure. We had decided to hop on the Blue Ridge Parkway and follow it north. The cooler temperatures, a slow meandering pace, scenic views an … | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe two weeks ago we pulled out of Sanford, leaving our boat behind, for an extended van trip of following serendipity. And let me tell you.. it feels GOOD to be back on the road with no particular agenda. We’ve been taking things a day at the time, snagging last … | Continue reading
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been meticulously preparing to store the boat, and head off in the van for an opened ended road adventure. It’s been a lot of sorting through closets, drawers and odd storage places we’ve been stuffing stuff for the past 16 months of being homeb … | Continue reading
Thanks for joining along in our return to travelogues! Where we last left you, we had just arrived to Jacksonville after a marvelous cruise down the St. Johns River from our pandemic home base of Sanford. It’s our first extended trip in over a year, and we’re on a mission to find … | Continue reading
Once you’ve been on the road a while, you inevitably start to accumulate a ton of photos. And not all of them blog worthy shots. In fact, some of them might be downright awful. Like those shots of inside your pocket, blurry attempts at capturing a rainbow, or hundreds of photos t … | Continue reading
We’ve been semi-stationary aboard our boat since March of 2020, making Sanford Florida our pandemic home base. We haven’t been completely stationary though. We’ve been thoroughly enjoying many camping excursions in our van (we’ve managed to visit every state park with camping in … | Continue reading
We posted that we were searching for new eBikes back in October 2020. The e-Joe EPIK SEs we acquired in 2015 had reached the end of their useful life – and we were itching for something that would get us back out riding. We shared what we were looking for in new eBikes – and the … | Continue reading
The internet is all abuzz about Starlink satellite internet and 5G cellular. Will these two emerging new technologies live up to the hype as a mobile internet solution for RVers and boaters? As part of our day job over at the Mobile Internet Resource Center we’ve been closely tra … | Continue reading
We recently joined up with our friends Jen & Deas (NealysonWheels) and Kristin & Katy (Snowmads) in South Carolina for an impromptu van meetup. Our first time leaving the state of Florida since the pandemic began. We’ve known all of these guys for many years, having rendezvoused … | Continue reading
The photo above is the sun setting over the Ogeechee River in Georgia – one of the very few recent photos in my album taken outside of Florida. In the past year we spent a total of just four nights outside of our “home” state. At what point do I forfeit my nomad license? Last […] | Continue reading
Ok, time for a little fun and talking about a subject near and dear to our hearts .. and livers. WINE! Yes, we love it – there’s no secret there at all. But how do you get wine while RVing and boating? Well, not just any wine.. unique and special wines. We’re going LIVE on […] | Continue reading
We’ve now had Blooper, our new-to-us 2020.5 Travato GL, for 3 months. And we’ve been asked multiple times if the upgrade from our 2016 Travato G (Cooper) has been worth it, and if the upgrade addressed our complaints we shared back in September. So now that we have several campin … | Continue reading
First of all, a big huge thanks for the outpouring of support from my last post on the Pandemic Blues. It was so heartwarming to hear from so many who were feeling similar things. I’m doing mostly better, most days. And it’s really hard to complain – despite running the AC here i … | Continue reading
Ten years ago today we launched our second app – ‘Coverage?’. Ten years in the App Store. Wow! ‘Coverage?’ was launched way back in the era of 3G and sparse coverage m… | Continue reading
As we shared a couple months ago – besides some gripes, we loved our 2016 Travato G so much, we were ready for an upgrade to a new model. Having a van in our fleet of nomadic vehicles has bee… | Continue reading