Digtial Nomad mini trip: Seattle

We just recently took another baby step along our journey toward becoming digital nomads: a DigtialNomad mini trip to Seattle. This was for sure further than our trip to the local Botanic Garden. In this case, my wife was attending a conference in Seattle and I joined her for 4 days as her conference wrapped…

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Botanic Gardens

The Denver Botanic Gardens are beautiful. It’s one of the places I had in mind when I put the idea of becoming a local digital nomad out there. Shortly after I had finished that post my wife was working from home with me. She was being distracted by some of the things that needed doing…

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what your manager needs

So you’d like to work from home, but you also want to do it in a successful way. I’m not going to delve into details on how this is becoming easier. This is more about what worked for me. In a nutshell, it’s about incremental change… I work with computers and this allows me to…

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becoming a local digital nomad

I remember when we moved to New Jersey. We were quite excited over the prospect of all the amazing sightseeing and cultural opportunities in close proximity. Best intentions. We lived there for about one and a half years. While we weren’t exactly a hop and skip from New York City, it certainly was pretty close….

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Why I don’t embrace a dedicated work environment

There are many guides for telecommuting and working from home: 6 Best Practices for Working From Home 10 Tips For Working From Home 12 Tips to Stay Healthy While Working From Home Get More Done: 18 Tips for Telecommuters Many of them offer similar advice and much of it good. There is one commonly offered…

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Working from the road, literally

Sometimes plans don’t work out. Over last Christmas a good number of our relatives were planning to gather at our house. Unfortunately, an emergency involving hospitalization kept that gathering from happening. Without going into details, it was a very difficult time, which had our relatives spending a number of days in the emergency room. We…

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