Archive for 'Carmen'

Moving the Office to Unknown Locations

Posted 03 July 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Planning the Trip, World Wifi Hotspots | 2 Comments

Today we move again.  This time we leave Paris and take the TGV to our friends’ country home outside of Avignon.  This will be the most rural location of our trip so far.  The home does not have internet. This brings up the question of how you find a way to connect in rural locations.  [...]

Time Zone Challenges, Goofs, and Good Times in Paris

Posted 30 June 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Family Issues, Time Zone Challenges | 1 Comment

Nous sommes arrivees en Paris!  We arrived from the Hague by train yesterday.  We were unable to get high speed reservations from the Hague because the trains were full.  However, we were able to take a slow train 30 minutes earlier than the high speed from the Hague to Brussels and catch the same high [...]

Getting Away?

Posted 26 June 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, Miscellaneous | No Comments

At NuNomad we believe that the ability to travel while you’re working through the use of technology marks the beginning of a new era for many professionals.  No longer are we tied not only to an office but not even necessarily to a geographic location.  The possiblities for sustainable adventure are enormous.  However, as with [...]

A Sight Seeing Day

Posted 25 June 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, The Trips | No Comments

Yesterday we decided to stay close to home and see some of the sights around the Hague.  Trams are the way to go here and arrive frequently and on time.  You purchase what is called a strippenkart and when you board the tram you fold the strip to the number of zones you will cross [...]

Clients, Tissues, Trains and Cheese

Posted 23 June 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, The Trips | 1 Comment

So – here’s the long and short of it: Clients – calls with my clients have been working well so far.  Skype has proven to be clear to every place except Texas.  The east coast sounds great.  Australia sounded better than the telephone.  The only issue so far has been complaint of background noise when [...]

Off to the Hague

Posted 21 June 2006 | By Nu Nomad Carmen | Categories: Carmen, The Trips | No Comments

Well, we have arrived at the Hague. Our trip was a long adventure.  We departed Austin by Amtrak.  The train arrived 2 hours late and we learned that Amtrak trains must pull over for freight trains because Amtrak doesn’t own the tracks – causing them to be late often.  Besides this, train travel is a [...]

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