Working the dream life for 17+ years.
Living the dream full-time RVing nomadic lifestyle working as location independent entrepreneurs.
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.
One of the great things about workamping somewhere that does not require a full-time commitment is that you actually get some time to do your own thing. For us, that is trying to make a living online.
One of my goals for Jerry’s dog blog during our stay here on the farm was to develop his new Tripawd Discussion Forums.
I can now officially check that off my list. Thanks to the Simple Forum WordPress plugin from Yellow Swordfish.
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.
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A vegetarian fulltime RVer gets used to life and death while work camping on an organic farm in Vero Beach, Florida.
Whew, what a relief. I just crunched our trip expenses from June to December, and found that we actually came in under budget by almost $12,000! How did we do it? By over budgeting, being ultra careful about things we chose to see and do, and Workamping. Now, this nice little savings is going to allow us to continue our journey even longer than we originally planned, by at least 6 months or so.
Now, let’s talk money. Pay attention; here are some important lessons we learned:
Here is a nifty little widget that would have come in quite handy when our Datastorm F2 GPS unit went bad. Though using it would have required for us to be online already!
Regardless, the Dishpointer satellite alignment calculator is still pretty cool.
We’ve included the Dishpointer Lite widget here for your use. Just select your satellite from the drop down menu and enter your location ? city or zip code ? in the box. The map and details will automatically update with the required elevation, azimuth and LNB skew for your satellite dish. Drag the map or marker to pinpoint your location.
Pretty cool, eh? If you think so, wait until you check out the full version.
Translation: Here’s a little video we made showing how I replaced the Upper Control Board on our Datastorm F2 mobile satellite internet dish after receiving a GPS failure from our D3 controller.
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words this video must be worth at least 1,024. But here’s a few more about the experience anyway. Just to make a short story long …
I know what you’re saying … “oh great, another one of Jim’s geek posts.”
But I also know someone out there is looking for this fix.
I looked for weeks and finally figured out how to make the Paged Comments WordPress plugin play nice with our Guestbook Generator on Jerry’s Site.
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
Workcamping on the farm while fulltime RVing in Florida will teach us many lessons about our potential future vocation in agriculture and biodiesel manufacturing
Fair Warning: This one gets rather technical. But if a PHP Neophyte like me I can figure it out, anyone who has installed their own WordPress blog should be able to handle it.
Here’s a nifty new product that should lighten the load of any fellow avid readers out there who have packed up their library with them and brought it along in their rig: The new Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device
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If you’re like us, you had a hard time deciding which favorite books to bring with you on the road. Or, you are often leaving books at campgrounds and purchasing new ones along the way.
Either way, there is likely still a stack of books taking up valuable storage space in your RV. Well, this lightweight portable e-book reader
I don’t mean to sound like an Amazon
Our RV road trip sabbatical budget and expense report for November 2007, just prior to Workamping gig in Florida for winter.