G’Day World #237 – The Polyamorous Technomads
Posted on 08. May, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
My guests today (from an interview I did late last week) are Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard.
A year ago, Chris sold up everything he owned, left his apartment in San Francisco, packed what he still owned into a smallish caravan called a “tab”, which happens to be the most techno-fitted out caravan on the planet, and set out on a different kind of un-journey. As he says on his blog:
From the beginning I’ve held the specific intention that this was NOT a trip with some final destination in mind, ending once I reached a certain place or after a certain amount of time had passed. Rather, my goal has been to invent and live a sustainable and fulfilling technomadic lifestyle – living on the road indefinitely.
He is a technologically-enabled nomad or “technomad”.
Through a forum for Prius lovers, he met Cherie and in a few days time they are embarking together on the next indefinite leg of the un-journey.
So they talk to me about the liberating idea of getting rid of your baggage and taking a journey with no end.
Chris and Cherie are also “polyamorous”. To find out what that means, listen to the show!.
Now, one caveat – we chatted over Skype and were both on wifi connections, so the quality is pretty average. I hope you can stick with it though, because they have a terrific story to tell.
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Wow… Now I know what my problem is. I keep getting trapped into the white-bread monogamous relationships while I should be practicing “polyamoury.” (Firefox’s dictionary doesn’t know what to make out of that word!) Seriously, though, the thought of limiting myself to one relationship just doesn’t work for me.
Becoming a Technomad is a whole other story, though. I have so much accumulated junk in my life. I doubt I could divest myself of all the books I own and go on a journey with no end. I’d love to, and I could probably get every book I own into a PDF format, but there’s something about a “dead tree” book that does it for me. I don’t think I could give them up.
It truly would be a very interesting podcast, though. Both the Technomad idea and the polyamorous one. I’d certainly subscribe.
You can’t possibly mean to tell me that none of you have ever heard of the word ‘polyamourous’ before?? Just checked Colin, he’s heard of it. I’m going to do a quick survey of my friends at uni today.
I’m not suggesting that it’s a particularly common lifestyle choice but there have been at least 3 or 4 articles about it in various womens magazines over the last couple of years.
Has no-ne seen or heard of the show in the states, either Showtime or HBO, called Big Love?
Guy with 3 kids all living in houses next to each other, huge backyard
, and multiple kids. It’s not too bad.
Sorry I’ve been so busy lately my regular readership of Cosmo and Dolly have completely slipped…
Did a quick survey of my friends and only one of them had heard of polyamory. That said, they’re engineering students.
FYI – Cherie and I now have a joint website to chronicle our adventures: http://www.technomadia.com
We are starting to put the pieces in place to do a podcast. Stay tuned for that…
*grin*
– chris
“That said, they’re engineering students.” ???
What does THAT mean, Miriam? I was an engineering student, and I recently learned of polyamory, and think it’s a great concept, but are you implying something about techies? lol