Still Nomadic, Just Closer to Home

If you first found this blog looking for a way to get a motorhome from Denmark to Norway, that post is still here. A fair bit has changed at my end since I wrote it, though.

Back in 2006, I worked my way around the world with a Pocket PC and a roaming GPRS SIM. It sounds like a terrible setup now, and by today’s standards it probably was. But it was enough to keep working while I travelled, and once I’d worked out I could do that, I wanted to see how far I could take it.

These days I’m based on the North East coast, near North Shields. I’m a dad to four kids, and being close enough to be part of their everyday lives matters more to me than having another country lined up. That’s the main reason I’ve stayed put as long as I have. I’m glad I did. I still get itchy feet.

A lot of that energy goes into mountain biking now. Give me a free day and there’s a good chance I’ll be loading the bike into the van and heading up to the Tweed Valley. I spend a fair bit of time at the Golfie in Innerleithen, usually trying to get a little better at riding steep, rooty trails in whatever weather Scotland has decided to throw at me. I film some of those rides for Nomadic Dad MTB, which means I get to watch my mistakes twice.

I’ve rebuilt this site and brought the old posts back with it. There’s something I like about having the motorhome trips and early travel stories in the same place as whatever I write next. Those trips were a big part of my life. So are the kids, the coast and the muddy weekends now. They all belong here.

I’ll use the blog for the occasional update, a trip worth writing about, or whatever’s on my mind after a few hours in the van. If you’ve been here before, cheers for coming back. And if you came for the ferry information, I hope you made it to Norway.

Andy