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We’re two retired first responders who sold everything, grabbed our dog Django, and set out to live our dream. Nomads and Nimble Shadow is our journey — the highs, lows, and life lessons of living full-time on the road or in Central America and finding a slower, more intentional way to live.
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Average audio length:
51 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
49 episodes
since Sept. 26, 2025
episodic
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What happens when two retired police lieutenants trade sirens, freeway traffic, and 30-year careers for giant frogs, venomous snakes, and jungle living?
In this episode of Nomads and Nimble Shadow, Shawn and Kendra look back on 10 months of nomadic life in Costa Rica—and the adventures, frustration…
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"We don't make it work—it just works."
Long-distance relationships and blended families aresupposed to be hard work, but Sarah (California), John (Massachusetts), and 12-year-old Harper are rewriting the rulebook. In this episode, we sit down with the trio to explore how 3,000 miles of se…
Welcome back to the show, where we’ve officially swapped instant gratification for Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast—a place operating in a total time-machine gear where everyday convenience vanishes, and true tropical adventure begins. In this episode, we’re joined by our self-proclaimed "Marriott…
Finally! We're back with some updates, trip highlights, and an accidental night in Vegas! Catch up with us as we fill you in on the last three months of couch surfing and living on the road, as we wait for our Wanderbox build to be completed. For the next upcoming episode, we are headed back to Cos…
In this episode, we take on the wild beauty of British Columbia, where the scenery is stunning, the AirBnBs are questionable, and Mother Nature clearly has a sense of humor. From close encounters with a protective bear and her cubs to an elk cow guarding her calf, a flat tire, a barebones shelter, …
We catch up with an old colleague who shows us how retirement, road trips, Teslas, and AI can all collide in the best way. From a 10,000-mile cross-country journey using full self-driving to discovering quirky roadside stops with ChatGPT and Grok, his story is about embracing technology, staying cu…
In this episode, Kendra and Shawn recap their chaotic, funny, and sometimes sketchy journey through the Midwest, Canada, and back toward the Rockies. From visiting their daughter at a communal workaway farm to losing their truck Val near Mount Rushmore, meeting “Rusty,” surviving Midwest roadkill a…
In this episode, we interview an adventurous retired couple who traded traditional life on land for full-time life aboard a sailboat. While they joined us from Greece and we recorded from Canada, we talked about what it really means to live on the ocean — from learning to sail, provisioning, weathe…
Join us as we take listeners on a whimsical, nomadic trekacross the Midwest, navigating everything from a "catastrophic" water main break in historic Galena to a transmission-slipping scare in Chicago. Their journey blends deep dives into 19th-century architecture and dark legends of secr…
Follow us as we continue north from Sioux Falls to beautiful La Crosse, Wisconsin. We wander the almost empty streets of this historic town while the temperature falls from 80 degrees to 20 degrees in an hour. And what is that loud siren?
Small trigger warning for sexual abuse discussion.
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