Marisa “Margo” 🏳️🌈
Heya! I’m a 31-year-old (she/her) full-time airstreamer living some variation of a nomadic lifestyle while serving on active duty as a U.S. Army public health officer and audiologist. I am the epitome of a weekend travel warrior, balancing my army career with a continuous craving for outdoor adventure.
I’m a Connecticut native and have called eight U.S. states home over the past 10 years. Now wherever my airstream wheels roll me, for career or wander, is home.
The story behind nomad 360° degrees traces back to my first tattoo, 360°. The ink on my skin serves as a testament to living life by a compass, enriched with an unknown journey that awaits in infinite directions.
Moon the Airstream manifested in January 2020 to answer the question, “will you live where life happens to you or will you choose one where you happen to life?” Answer: I chose to actively happen to life. To live each day with conscious purpose. To only posses materials that serve my life purpose. To foster and nurture my soul with the great outdoors at the forefront. To create more space for what matters most: purposeful connection. The future is incredibly unpredictable, retirement is too far in the distance and the present is all that is guaranteed. As my Uncle once told me, if the why is big enough the how to is easy. This lifestyle provides me with simplicity of only the necessities and a newfound freedom I never knew existed while staying uncomfortable.
Career backstory: I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences from the University of Connecticut (2013), Doctor of Audiology degree from Salus University (2017), and completed my residency at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). I commissioned in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps in May 2016. My first assignment I served as the Deputy Chief of the Fort Stewart Army Hearing Program and Audiologist. Currently, I serve as the Chief of the Fort Drum Audiology Clinic. (An audiologist prevents, diagnoses and treats hearing and balance disorders.)
You can find me outside doing some of my favorite activities:
Hiking & Climbing
Photography
Reading & journaling in a hammock
Forest bathing
Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki (Certified Reiki Master Teacher)
Skydiving (Accelerated Freefall Skydive Training Course)
LGBTQ+ community outreach
Interests are fluid and continuously changing direction. Stay curious, nomads :)
All the location(s) I have lived in long enough to have a mailing address:
Stratford, CT
Middlebury, CT
Keene, NH
Buies Creek, NC
Storrs, CT
Philadelphia, PA
Bethesda, MD
Savannah, GA
San Antonio, TX
Sackets Harbor, NY
Summer 2023 - stay tuned!
Do we share like-minded interests?
Or want to share a similar experience? Let’s chat! I invite you to connect with me via email or Instagram, or send a message using the contact form.
margo@nomad360degrees.com