Plan for full time RV travel

What's your Plan for Full time RV travel

What's your plan once you get on the road. OK, Let's say all of your planning is done and you are somewhat satisfied with your budget and plans. Are you retired and going to live off your social security and savings? If yes, Do you plan on traveling the country and seeing the sights or will you settle down (to a certain degree) and stay in one area for an extended amount of time and really see the sites. Will you set an agenda of say visiting every national park in the country. Are you ready to give back and do some volunteering for your site. All very good options.

If you are like me and still have six years before retirement you'll need to work to make your plan feasible. Barb will retire next year so that will help us some. We will both need to work as close to full time as we can to live the style of life we want. Will it be easy? No. Is it doable? Yes it is. Will we have to make sacrifices? Of course we will. We've already started making sacrifices.

We have been having garage sales all summer long and will continue to have more when spring comes back around. This all means we are downsizing just about everything we have to get to the lifestyle we want. We plan to work the next six years doing whatever to make a living. 

I've researched possible jobs for RV folks. Some jobs are seasonal like working for Amazon during the Christmas season, typically working from October til about December 23^rd. The pay is a lot better than working at a campground but it is work so don't go in thinking this is going to be easy. Plan on working 4 10's every week. At least til they start with overtime. You might try the sugar beet harvest. This is a short term job usually only about 2-3 weeks but again the pay is better than minimum wage. The big drawback is the work is at night and the weather is cold. But the common thinking is, I can do just about anything for a few weeks or a few months.

Where will we work? Ideally wherever we want to go. Practically, wherever we find work. Looking at the different resources on the internet that shouldn’t be a big problem. 

Sure working someplace with a beautiful mountain range, or lake shore out the window would be great and yes we will look for those places. But that's not a deal breaker for us.

Getting on the road next year is not our end game. No its just the beginning. We want to travel the country to see and experience the wonders that are out there. Yes we will still be part of the rat race but hopefully a much smaller part, we hope. We are even looking at the possibility of Gate Guarding out in Texas. Gate Guarding is kind of misleading, you don't actually guard a gate. You are there to log oil workers in and out of the project so there is an accurate accounting of who is coming and going in case of an emergency.

The pay is so much more than minimum wage but the drawbacks are so much more. The gate must be watched 24 hours a day, so while one of you is sleeping the other is working. 7 days a week. No days off. But remember I said getting on the road was not our end game. If you can do this for a couple of years, you've saved up a nice little chunk of change. You have no campground fee, the company supplies you with a generator, 500 gallon water tank and pump out service as needed. I forgot to mention some of these oil field sites can be close to the Mexican border so illegals roaming around can be a problem at times.

There are amusement parks around the country that hire seasonal workers

(aka Workampers). You could also try some of the national parks. Some of the concessionaires rely heavily on workampers at national parks. A couple being Yosemite and The Grand Canyon.

So no matter what your plan for fulltime RV travel is there should be a plan for everybody out there to work and enjoy themselves along the way. Hope to see ya down the highway.