My love affair with photography resembles a true affair - the highs are high and the lows are heartbreaking. More about my realizations about the downside of my love affair with photography...
Read MoreInsurance can help recover after losing physical things, but in modern times data are often more precious than possessions. This is doubly true for digital nomads who often eschew owning expensive things and embrace going paperless for both personal and work records. Everything is in our laptops. Insurance can’t protect against data loss. That’s why we need backups.
Read MoreRoad life means we’re continuously on the go and rarely in the same place twice. This can get tricky when you have pets, especially an older dog. Here are our tips for handling Tybee and Tyki’s vet visits.
Read MoreSolar panels have to be aimed at the sun to work. I’m serious. They really do. When they are bolted to a vehicle, that doesn’t change...but the location and orientation of the rig certainly does! So where – and how – you park your RV has a big impact on how happy you’ll be with your solar panels’ performance.
Read MoreLiving full-time on the road isn’t easy. There are various reasons why full-timers say goodbye to the traveling lifestyle. So the question is: are the hardships just too much?
Read MoreIs it crazy that I would drive all the way back to Yukon just to stay at this boondock site again?
Read MoreWe get caught up with the numbers too much. Especially because we keep track of the places we stay, total amount we pay for campgrounds/RV parks, when and if we plug in, how often we shower, etc. We have certain numbers that we are really proud of...
Read MoreI remember my first time: I was nervous, self conscious, awkward, and thought everyone was looking and judging me. They were. But what did I expect? I was living in a parking lot inside my homemade RV. Of course people were looking, judging, and wondering.
Read MoreWe don’t write a lot about the personal aspects of living in an RV and on the road: How do we actually feel about it? How is it living in a small space with each other, Tybee and Tyki? But it’s time. It’s time to move beyond the glacial peaks, turquoise lakes, wildflower filled single track, and moon-like red rocks. There’s more to our lives and living on the road than that.
Read MoreI have to admit that I was slightly worried – this was the first time towing an RV across the border and I figured because the Toaster looks the way it does we’d probably get pulled over and searched.
Read MoreBack in early January, we got an unexpected email from Lori Knight, a producer with Efran Films. She was researching topics for a client, Autoblog, and somehow came across us. Our solar RV conversion and on-the-road living interested her and she wanted to do a story about us for Autoblog.
Read MoreStaying in shape while living on the road isn’t hard. Here are 4 great workouts you can do instead of your usual outdoor activities.
Read MoreWhen you live on the road, you don’t have a meaningful physical address. Our increasingly paperless society makes it pretty easy to manage correspondence, bills, even legal matters and taxes electronically – but what do you do when you actually need to get a real thing delivered into your hands?
Read MoreFor the last year, it has seemed to us like all the full-timers we meet have a mobile hotspot (aka “jetpack”) for cellular data in their RV. It seemed like it was an obvious choice for them, but it wasn’t so clear-cut to us. We’ve been looking into it for months without finding satisfying answers to our questions, so when we recently had the chance to pick up a jetpack for nearly-free, we took the opportunity to find out for ourselves.
Read MoreMadeleine Boga emailed me a few weeks back saying that she was working on a feature piece for She Explores exploring the concepts of home. She asked if I would be interested in participating in this collaborative piece. I said YES!
Read MoreSomething we recently discovered was showering outside the RV. Like most RVs, ours came with an outside shower. But we never used it to wash the dogs or rinse something off outside. We kept waiting for the right combination of circumstances to be able to shower outside: weather and privacy.
Read MoreMountain biking is why we came here and mountain biking is what we did! The Hurricane/Virgin area is small, but to make up for it (really there’s no need to make up for small because small is great!) there are six different mountain biking trail systems, tons of hiking, and Zion National Park is nearby.
Read MoreStaying connected while on the road is one of the hottest topics amongst full-timers, and the unlimited cell data plan is the holy grail of working nomads. But if you don’t already have one, they are getting harder and harder to acquire, so travelers are increasingly having to make ‘limited’ data plans work. We’re not experts on this, but we have traveled for a year without an unlimited plan, and when we tell fellow nomads how small our data plan is, they generally seem amazed. So I think that means we’re getting by with a pretty small allotment. It does take effort, but cell data costs can be kept in check (really helping the monthly budget), without totally unplugging from civilization.
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