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
It’s been an exciting week here for us.. and we are itching to get you caught up on our new-to-us 2020.5 Winnebago Travato GL we just acquired. But first, we need to get our 2016 Travato G so… | Continue reading
Wow. Thanksgiving week, already. This year has both flown by, and drug on and on. And I’m sure many of us are looking forward to having 2020 in the rearview mirror. We’ve been pretty qu… | Continue reading
2020 has been a rollercoaster of a decade. Wait. Year. It’s just a year, right? There’s no doubt the state of the world weighs heavy on many. Even if you’re fortunate enough to st… | Continue reading
Five years ago we were on the hunt for our first folding electric bikes, and we had a very particular requirement – the bikes needed to fold up small enough to store in the front luggage bay … | Continue reading
It’s now been 16 months since we purchased our van Coopernicus – a 2016 Winnebago Travato G. Over that timeframe, the van has been our daily driver, our get-away adventure vehicle, our … | Continue reading
Five months ago we arrived back to Sanford, Florida – a favorite stop in our prior travels that felt most like home to us. Effectively putting nomadic life on pause as we wait out the pandemi… | Continue reading
So here we are again, in the southeast on the precipice of peak hurricane season. Despite hopes and wishes, not only did the season not get rescheduled due to COVID – it seems like the months… | Continue reading
Earlier this year we returned to our boondocking roots for a month in the deserts of Arizona in our bus. It was oh so wonderful to be out in nature, on our own and feeling abundant in the systems w… | Continue reading
When we pulled into Sanford back in late March, we knew we were here for the long haul. Even if the pandemic was appropriately flattened, we figured that would place us smack dab in the middle of h… | Continue reading
In what seems like another world now, last December we replaced our dead lithium batteries in our vintage bus, Zephyr. We originally installed our GBS lithium cells back in August 2011 – and … | Continue reading
Earlier this month we recognized both my 13th ‘Nomadiversary’ and one year since we added our Winnebago Travato camper van to our nomadic fleet. As we were reminiscing about our years o… | Continue reading
Ever since we purchased our motor yacht to start exploring the Great Loop after over a decade of full time RVing – we’ve been asked the question “which costs more?” multiple… | Continue reading
Hard to believe it’s been a month since we arrived to Sanford aboard our boat. It feels like both a year ago, and a day ago. How weird time flows these days. I know we’re not alone in t… | Continue reading
As most of our readers might be aware, Technomadia is our personal blog where we share the travel side of our technomadic lifestyle – and many years ago we branched off our mobile internet &a… | Continue reading
Stay at home. Shelter in Place. Self-Isolate. Quarantine. Essential Services Only. Don’t travel! All phrases new to most of us. And for nomads, it’s been a confusing logistical landscap… | Continue reading
Fourteen years ago today, I began my life as a full-time Technomad. At the time I first set off – I was imagining RVing all around the country, exploring Alaska, paramotoring in Baja, backpac… | Continue reading
In our last update, we shared we were back to cruising after getting our boat out of storage in Savannah and heading to our home state of Florida. We didn’t have plans beyond that, except per… | Continue reading
What a crazy world we live in these days, and it’s changing faster than any of us can keep up. And while I wished we would wake up to discover we’ve all been tuned into the latest Netfl… | Continue reading
It was 5 years ago this week that we attended the 2015 Escapade in Tucson, AZ and helped the Escapees RV Club launch their new club within a club called Xscapers! And wow.. look how far it has come… | Continue reading
One of the most frequent questions we’ve gotten since we traded in our MINI Cooper for a Class-B Winnebago Travato van conversion was – do we flat tow the van behind our motorhome? And … | Continue reading
Have you ever had a vision and then came back 4 years later and realized – you totally found the exact right people to share that vision with? I’m not sure I’m ever going to be ab… | Continue reading