Episodes

Today I will be speaking with a couple from Arkansas who make a very good living as Workampers by conducting surveys of retail and commercial properties. These are not public opinion surveys, rather detailed descriptions of office buildings and strip malls which show locations of various features, like light poles, electric meters and sprinklers. Terri and Rick Morgan are from Texarkana, Ark., and they have been RVing for about three years. When they started, Rick was a commercial plumber emplo...

Today I am going to speak with an employer from Georgia which hires Workampers for a campground near the Atlantic Ocean. Southern Retreat RV Park is located in Brunswick, Ga., and ideally situated halfway between Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. It’s close enough to bigger cities, yet conveniently tucked away in an area that allows people to enjoy the outdoors. It’s not on the ocean, but the shore of Jekyll Island is less than 15 miles away. Today I am going to speak with Anne, who has be...

Today I am interviewing a woman who is passionate about helping other single women discover the joys of RVing and to do so in a safe, memorable way. Kathy Belge is the founder of Solo Women RV, a platform where she shares stories about her travels and offers advice to inspire women, especially those traveling by themselves, to enjoy the freedom of RVing. She maintains a blog and produces a podcast, too. Kathy nicknamed her 20-foot 1999 American Cruiser Class B motorhome, Squeaky, because of al...

Today I am interviewing a couple who has been RVing and Workamping for five years. Best of all, they support themselves by working only three and a half months a year. Steve and Laura Mahoney are from New Hampshire, where he worked as a mechanic on heavy equipment. Together, they have been traveling in a 2000 Newmar Dutch Star motorhome, which they affectionately named Waldo. Their first Workamping job was at an RV park in Texas, but they also worked in Alaska managing some chalets where they ...

Today I am interviewing a couple from Colorado who have been RVing part-time since 2002. They started with a pop-up, upgraded to a travel trailer and even lived in a cabin for a while. But the freedom to travel proved to be strong, and they returned to RVing when COVID-19 caused job challenges for her and shut down a business he had owned for many years. At the end of 2020, Duane and Jan Sawyer were dissatisfied with the direction their jobs were headed. Jan had worked as a supervisor for decad...

Today, I’m going to interview a couple who has been RVing and Workamping at a variety of jobs for more than 10 years. Barbara and Brad Cunningham started camping in the 1990s using tents and occasionally renting an RV. In 2009, they took the plunge and bought their first 35-foot Class A motorhome. They have been Workamping for years, but on a schedule that allows them to play for a while, then work for a while. If they really wanted to check out an area, it just made sense for the couple to fi...

Today I’ll be speaking with an employer who is seeking Workampers for jobs at several national parks and recreation areas this summer. Last June, I spoke with Lindsey Jaroszek, the talent acquisition account manager with Aramark Hospitality, about Workamping opportunities at the company’s Lake Powell location, which sits at the border of Arizona and Utah. She makes a repeat appearance this week to describe jobs available yet this summer at several national parks in western states. Aramark cont...

Today I am interviewing an employer from Alaska who is looking for adventurous people to help others enjoy an adventure of their lifetime. David Story is the operations manager for Cooper Landing, one of several locations maintained by Alaska Wildland Adventures. The company specializes in providing travel experiences for small groups of people visiting Alaska. They stay in one of the company’s three lodges located on the Kenai Peninsula. It’s an all-inclusive experience for guests on trips ra...

Today I am interviewing someone from Crazy Horse Memorial who will talk about Workamping opportunities this summer in South Dakota. Terry DeRouchey became the vice president of visitor services for Crazy Horse Memorial in 2015 and has been hiring Workampers every year since then. The educational and humanitarian project doesn’t accept government funding, so it is fully supported by missions and private donations. Yet the organization hires about three dozen Workampers annually and pays them st...

Knowing that many people often start a new year with resolutions to eat better and get into shape, today I will interview a full-time RVer who works as a health coach. He’ll offer tips on what people can do to enjoy a healthier lifestyle while RVing. Allen Lundy has been RVing with his wife, Margie, for nearly 12 years. They raised three children while RVing and were one of the pioneers proving people could live and work from their RVs while roadschooling their kids and supporting a full-time t...

Today I will speak with a representative from Six Flags Darien Lake, which is an amusement park, water park, hotel, campground and amphitheater located in western New York state. Adrian Mudd is a human resources supervisor for Six Flags Darien Lake. He has been with the company for almost five years and oversees the park’s on-site work programs that recruit Workampers and international students to spend a season performing a variety of jobs. Six Flags needs ride operators, food and beverage wo...

This week I will be interviewing an author who wrote a history book about Coca-Cola and is looking for Workampers to encourage bookstores to buy the book as well as sell them at local events. Larry Jorgensen has been a big fan of Coca-Cola for many years, but he was amazed at the network of companies that helped to make it one of the world’s most widely-recognized brands. In 2017, he wrote The Coca-Cola Trail: People and Places in the History of Coca-Cola to capture and retain stories behind ho...

Today I will speak with an RV refrigeration repair expert who addresses a problem that many RVers will encounter at some point during their ownership experience: Should the refrigerator be repaired or replaced? Roger Ford is the founder and co-owner of Ford’s RV Refrigeration Training Center in Benton, Ky., along with his wife, Onna Lee. Roger started specializing in RV refrigerator repair in 1984. At that time, he was hearing stories from RV owners saying repair centers were telling them their...

Today, I have a special guest. I will be interviewing a woman who travels full-time with her husband and three daughters, ages 9 to 14. She is an influencer who runs several businesses from her RV, has her own podcast and has developed some online classes for people contemplating the RV lifestyle. Ashley Logsdon started RVing with her family in 2016. Within two years, they had visited all 48 lower states. Now that’s moving! Today, they have a new adventure to serve as volunteers in every Florid...

Today I am speaking with a mobile RV service technician who supports his young family on the road by fixing RVs wherever they travel. Jared Creach and his family have been RVing since 2014. He and his wife have a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl who travels with them as well as a 20-year-old son who is on his own. Prior to 2014, they were weekend RVers while Jared worked a corporate job at a General Motors assembly plant in Kansas. The family was attracted to the RV lifestyle as a way to h...

Today I am going to speak with someone about Workamping at Glacier National Park in Montana. There are a number of jobs available at various locations within the park. William Floyd works for the Glacier Park Collection, which is an adventure travel company providing guest services to people visiting the national park. The company provides lodging as well as retail and food services plus other activities for guests to enjoy the most from their visit to Glacier National Park. The company operat...

Today, I’m going to speak with a representative of Idaho State Parks about the many Workamping opportunities still available for the 2022 season. For 22 years, Katherine Hampton has been managing the volunteer program at 30 Idaho State Parks. That may be a small number compared those in other state parks in the Pacific Northwest, but Kathryn plans to bring on between 300 and 400 volunteers to serve as campground hosts as well as working in volunteer or seasonal jobs. The most popular volunteer...

Today’s episode features an interview with a man who operates a marketing business to help local companies do a better job in building awareness of their products and services. Brian Ostrovsky and his family started RVing about a year and a half ago. Originally from Sacramento, Calif., he and his wife raise five children ranging in ages from 4 to 13. They travel in a KZ Durango fifth wheel bunkhouse, which ensures everyone has enough space. Brian created a marketing workshop program with which...

Today I am going to interview a Workamper with one of the most novel jobs I’ve seen among people living the full-time RV lifestyle with a family. The man is a pilot for a major airline. Steven Tree, his wife and three kids – ages 10, 8 and 6 – embarked upon their RV journey a little over a year ago. Prior to that, they had been living near Ann Arbor, Mich. They had contemplated a full-time RV lifestyle for several years, and just decided to jump in and do it. They sold their home and bought a ...

Today I am going to speak with a gentleman who did some research on the RV lifestyle, which convinced him that he would not need nearly as much monthly income to support his travels than he thought he would. Larry Hansen is an RVer from Florida who hit the road five and a half years ago in a 22-foot travel trailer. He gave up a career in banking and stock trading to enjoy more freedom to travel. He did not just jump into the RV lifestyle willy-nilly to see what it would be like. He conducted a ...

Today I will speak with a couple who has been traveling around the country with their 12-year-old daughter while working a remote job and servicing RVs at campgrounds they visit. Dick and Melissa Karnes are originally from Oregon, but they hit the road full-time in June 2018 with their daughter, Madison, as well as two cats and three dogs. Since then, the family has been able to travel anywhere they want to go at any time because of a unique Workamping situation. Melissa is a mortgage underwri...

Today’s episode will focus on Workamping opportunities at national forest properties in California, Colorado and Washington state, with more locations coming on board soon. Trevor Bolls is the campground operations manager for Rocky Mountain Recreation, a company that has been hiring Workampers for more than 30 years. In fact, they hire up to 500 Workampers annually to work during peak season, of which about 75% of them return the next year. The firm needs people to work in national forest cam...

Today I will speak with an employer who hires Workampers for jobs within one of the most spectacular national parks in America – Yellowstone. Erin Benike is Delaware North’s general manager of its 12 Yellowstone General Stores located within the second-most visited national park in America. Many of the nearly 4 million Yellowstone visitors annually spend time and money in one of the park’s general stores buying souvenirs, gift items, food, beverages, clothing and other merchandise, like RV supp...

Today I am going to speak with an employer in Florida about working in one of the most ecologically-diverse places on earth: The Everglades. J.J. Condella is the general manger of Flamingo Adventures, which is part of the Guest Services network of companies which are contracted by the National Park Service and other agencies to provide food, gifts, lodging and recreation to people visiting the parks. The Everglades encompasses 1.5 million acres of wilderness at the southern tip of Florida. Peo...