Media – Winnebiko
Bikepacking article – first digital nomad
This beautifully written 2023 article by Lucas Winzenburg in Bikepacking captures the flavor of my 17,000-mile adventure from the technological and cultural perspective of 40 years down the road. It has sparked considerable discussion and a few interview requests about digital nomad history, and I am honored to provide this link to the source. The…
Read MoreWinnebiko in Rolling Homes by Lloyd Kahn
Shelter Publications has been producing dreamy wish books of tiny homes and efficient nomadic tools since 1973, and if you have ever fantasized about taking off in a home on wheels, you almost certainly know his work. Rolling Homes is Lloyd Kahn’s latest volume, published in August 2022, and I am delighted that it includes…
Read MoreThe first digital nomad – Fast Company article
It is a treat, here in late 2021, to see this article make a splash on that newfangled “social media.” How far we’ve come in a third of a century… with the essential tools to enable a truly mobile lifestyle now in every pocket and backpack. When I took off on a “computerized recumbent bicycle”…
Read MoreInterview with Laidback Bike Report
In January of 2017, living aboard Datawake in Friday Harbor, I did a live video interview with Gary Solomon of the Laidback Bike Report. This proved to be an interesting and lively event, and is embedded below. Gary has done a huge collection of interviews related to the dynamic recumbent bicycle scene… something that quite…
Read MoreTechnomad in Oi Magazine – Vietnam
This beautiful glossy city magazine targets expats, travelers and English-speaking Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City. It published this 4-page article about digital nomads in 2015, opening with the story of my technomadics beginning in 1983. The front page is in the photo below, and the full text is on their server (article starts on page…
Read MoreSAFT Batteries Make 9,760 Mile Bike Journey
SAFT was one of my first equipment sponsors, providing the NiCAD battery for the original Winnebiko, charged by a Solarex 5-watt panel as well as “shore power” when available (1983 schematic). During the Winnebiko 2 epoch, the company ran this article about my use of their products. SAFT Accumulator Second Quarter, 1987 CAPTION: Roberts on…
Read MoreHigh-Tech Trek at National Online Meeting
In May of 1986 I flew to New York and gave a talk at the National Online Meeting about the bicycle adventures… both the 9,760 miles I had completed and the new one about to begin with vastly expanded technology. I had a long-standing relationship with this publisher, having been on the “Online Information Retrieval”…
Read MoreKA8OVA at 1986 Dayton Hamvention computer session
The photo above shows me giving a talk about the Computing Across America adventure at the “Computers in the Ham Shack” event in a hot room during the 1986 Dayton Hamvention (photo by Dr. Jim Grubbs, KR6EN/ex-K9EI – SK, who was session moderator). The Worldradio article below is from the July issue, but the Dayton weekend…
Read MoreComputing Across America – Southwest Airlines Spirit
This was one of my rare forays into the in-flight magazines, published in the interlude between the Winnebiko and the Winnebiko II. The photo was taken during my book-writing layover in San Clemente, California. This version of the bike was lean and well-tuned, fresh from 10,000 miles on the road. That fabric enclosure in the…
Read MoreWinnebiko on PM Magazine
This local production in Columbus contains a shortened version of a treasure, produced by Richard Hart for Evening Magazine in San Francisco. Bracketed by a short local-angle interview with a blush-inducing paragraph from the manuscript, the result captures a strange time in my life… back in Ohio after almost ten thousand miles around the US,…
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