ReGeneration Roadtrip: Lessons Learned on the Open Road

The post below comes to us from Todd Dwyer, Dell’s environmental community liaison, who is currently on the road with Grist.org’s Sarah van Schagen driving across the country to bring awareness to what each of us can do to better care for our planet. Nothing screams digital nomad more than driving across the country while keeping in touch with your office and trying to frequently update your followers via blogs, photos, Twitter and videos from the front seat of a Toyota Prius. So, I asked Todd to put together a post on some of the lessons they’ve learned on the road.

They started on Sept. 22 in San Francisco and will end in New York City on Oct. 7. Todd and Sarah are using all the coolest mobility tools and have learned a few tips along the way.

If you’d like to follow them, go to ReGeneration.org, see the photos they upload to their Flickr account, Facebook, Qik and follow Todd on Twitter. You can even see some of these videos and others on YouTube.

Let’s hear from Todd some of the things they’ve learned an environmental nomads on this 15-day, 15-city tour. Take it away Todd.

Dispatch from somewhere in the middle of Nebraska:

Day 9 of the ReGeneration Road Trip is coming to a close and the sun is threatening to hide behind the horizon again, so I thought I’d hammer this out from the passenger seat of Cletus, our trusty Toyota hybrid Prius, while there’s still light.

We’ve traveled halfway across the United States so far talking to people and organizations about their visions of a greener future for our planet, how how they think we’re going to get there, and there’s still another half of the country to go!

With this post, Sarah and I are going to take a temporary break from our environmental message to pass on a few of the lessons and tricks we’ve learned during the course of our journey that have made the nuts and bolts of our mission a little easier. We’re by no means experts on blogging or on being hardcore digital nomads (I’m sure there will be more than a few more lessons we’ll have to learn the hard way as we roll towards the east coast), but this trip has given us a unique opportunity to figure out how blogging on the move works, and how to make it easier. So sit back and feel free to let us know what you make of what we’ve learned so far.

Keep it simple

This is rule #1. In keeping with this rule, I decided to shoot a video instead of explaining this rule in writing.

Don’t get snared in the interwebs

Equipment: The Brains of the Operation

Here’s Grist.org’s Sarah van Schagen to talk about the laptops she’s using during her travels.

Hope this information is as useful to you on the road as learning it was for us. What have we left out? Let us know in the comments section, and check out www.ReGeneration.org for more of our adventures on the road.