Working the dream life for 17+ years.
Our opinionated guide to finding the best small and mid-sized towns to live and make a living in across the U.S.
It’s five a.m. and I woke up because my feet are itchy. Not because I have athletes foot or anything. No, it’s just that I’m too excited to get on the road again. After almost two months of living on the farm, we are packed up, hitched up, and ready for more of the unknown. We don’t really want to leave, especially in the middle of the season, but we have to, in order to complete our circle of the U.S. by June.
By attending the Workamper Expo in Lakeland Florida we learned so much about the workamper lifestyle, finding a job, and making a living while on the road. Includes video interviews of workamper employers.
Video of Jim shows the hard way to husk a coconut with Harry Nilsson singing Put the Lime in the Coconut
A vegetarian fulltime RVer gets used to life and death while work camping on an organic farm in Vero Beach, Florida.
Experiencing rural farm living up close with Outlaw, a newborn filly born next to White Rabbit Acres in Vero Beach, Florida. Includes video featuring Indian Outlaw by Tim Mcgraw.
It’s a swampy night here in Vero, and we’ve spent the last few hours swatting away bugs while enjoying the last of the holiday season. This monumental year is coming to a close, and even after thousands of miles and too many towns to count, we are both nowhere closer to deciding where we want to live, or what we want to be when we grow up.
We have our favorite regions, but really, the only decision we’ve been able to make, is to decide not to decide. In essence, that is a decision of sorts, right?
When you go to a Farmer’s Market, have you ever thought about the amount of work it takes for a farmer to get there every week, so you can have the freshest farm fresh produce available? I never gave it much thought, until we started hawking White Rabbit’s wares at the Fort Pierce Farmer’s Market.
For three weeks, we’ve been getting up at 5:30 am every Saturday to sell a variety of organic produce, nuts and grains. The market is only four hours long, but it takes an entire day to set up, tear down, clean up and take stock back at the Farm. By the time we’re done, it’s usually around 3pm and we are exhausted.
Learning about the organic farm business while on our workamping job in Vero Beach, Florida
One fulltime RV family discusses how they are traveling North America, debt free.
Since June, we’ve been searching for the ideal place to live and start a business. We are talking to locals in towns across America, interviewing and taking notes, trying to get a feel for places that might come close to what we consider “perfect.”
But is all this work just a waste of energy? Are we searching for a utopia that doesn’t exist?
Tell us: What factors make up your ideal community?
As we tack on the miles, we keep seeking these answers.
Belgium Wisconsin got snow dumped on them this week while we enjoyed the sun in Port Canaveral. Pictures taken in Belgium, WI and Port Canaveral, FL.
Thoughts and impressions about our visit to St. Augustine, Florida
Due to some false LH2 ECO sensor readings, the STS-122 mission launch was scrubbed yesterday delaying Space Shuttle Atlantis from taking off until Saturday afternoon at the earliest.
We intend to stay one more day here in Jetty Park in hope that the countdown will continue as planned. If not, we will head on to our obligations at the farm in Vero Beach about an hour south. The view of takeoff won’t be nearly as spectacular there, but we’ve postponed our workamping stay long enough already.
In the meantime, here are some scenes from our first day in Florida …
And here is something I realized after our first night at Mike Roess Gold Head Branch Florida State Park …
Looking for young travelers and RVers under age 50 in the U.S. Where are they, and who are they?
Meeting Gen X RVers on our Road Trip Sabbatical across America.