That company is called Roam, and since its founding in 2015, it has constructed an international housing network for so-called digital nomads, a growing demographic of people who travel the world while working remotely over the internet. Two years ago, the buildings were leased by a start-up that intended to return them to their original use, housing itinerant workers - albeit a very different kind. Then, in 1990, a preservationist bought the property and turned it into a bed-and-breakfast, and in 2015, it was flipped again to a hip hotel group. In the ’80s, its rent was $100 a week, and the buildings were crumbling. As a new residential neighborhood grew around it, the inn remained a holdout from another era. Locals have long harbored a belief that the bottom floor of one house is haunted.Īt the time of the inn’s construction, the surrounding area was known as Riverside like the rest of the city, it became a hotbed of real estate speculation over the coming decades. One of the city’s very first hotels, it was built in 1908 to house transient laborers working on the docks, back when Miami was still a frontier outpost of barely 5,000 people.
Letters on the frontmost building’s pale yellow facade identify it as the Miami River Inn. This is the story of those that 'did not' who are populated - and are still travelling - in America.On the far eastern edge of Miami’s Little Havana, beyond a tall black gate, sit four century-old wooden buildings made of strong Dade County pine, arranged around a courtyard with a pool. 'When all is said and done, there are two types of men: those who stay at home and those who do not' Kipling. Grant follows the trails of the first European to wander across the American West (a failed conquistador) joins a group of rodeo-competing cowboys (and gets thrown by a mechanical bull) tells the story of the vanishing nomadic Indians and links up with 300,000 'gerito gypsies' - old people who live and travel in their RVs (Recreational Vehicles). 'Freedom is impossible and meaningless within the confines of sedentary society, the only true freedom is the freedom to cross the land, beholden to no one'. AMERICAN NOMADS is the extraordinary result. Motivated partly by his own wanderlust and partly by his realisation that America is a land populated by wanderers, he set out to test his theory. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Richard Grant has never spent more than twenty-two consecutive nights under the same roof.
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