We’ve been getting a lot of emails from everyone asking about our, what would appear to be, drop off the face of the planet. And we’re sorry that’s it’s been so long since we’ve updated. A lot has changed… in fact you can say that everything has changed. We have put an abrupt halt to workamping and full time RVing.

It’s hard to say that. We know that many people watch us, and we know that many of those people are looking to live this lifestyle and are looking to get info before they take the jump.  Just because workamping didn’t work for us, doesn’t mean that it won’t work for you. Every situation is different, you have to gauge it on your own and make that choice yourself.

Jessica and I love full time RVing. We love to travel, we love seeing new places and meeting new people. But we found that workamping just wasn’t working out the way that we had hoped. Our last workamping job had some things that just didn’t sit right with us. The job itself was great, it was fun, it was fast paced and never left room for a dull moment. And the people we worked with were great! For our site we had to pay about $450 a month, what didn’t work for us was the fact that we also got paid $3 less an hour just for the fact that we were workampers (everyone else that worked the same job but lived off site got $3 more an hour). So when you factor in the fact that we were working over 40 hours a week, in total we were paying what added up to almost $1,500 a month for a glorified parking space (which was pretty cramped and had no privacy whatsoever).

That was only part of it. If you talk to a workamper, you’re going to find that their philosophy is that they don’t want to work over 40 hours a week. They live this lifestyle to explore, see and enjoy new places. When you’re working a full week and 10 day stretches, you find that in most cases you’re too tired and you have to use any days off to do laundry or go grocery shopping. I know we should have looked into the job more and made sure that both sides were clear on the terms before we started, but we were so desperate to find a find a place to workamp that we jumped at any opportunity that presented itself. I suppose the moral of the story here is to fully check out a company first. I know if you look at some of our past articles we give this advice, but like I said… we were desperate. One of the best ways is to see if you could talk to a few people who have worked there before. Might seem hard to do I know, but google the company’s name with “worked” or “job” and you’ll be surprised about how much people talk about their old jobs.

And I’m not saying that one job burned us. That situation wasn’t working out for us. We weren’t able to save anything, our truck was still limping on a busted transmission, and at the rate that we were going, we weren’t going to have any money for our trip out at the end of the season to our next workamping job. Workamping in general just didn’t fit with what we wanted, we were stuck in the same place for five to six months and most places wanted us to work more hours than what we wanted. Also there’s the matter of my son, Donovan. The whole reason we came back to Florida was to be closer to him. During the summers he can stay with us, but during the school year if I’m not close to him, I don’t get to see him at all. So we thought that in coming to Florida we would be able to spend more time with him on a regular basis. But having to work so many hours and then having to drive across the state in our busted truck just to spend a few hours with him only to drive back wasn’t working out. We were literally counting change to get up enough gas money to see him and the rest of our family.

So Jessica and I had quite a few loooong talks and decided that we need to rethink things and begin a new path. We left our workamping job, sold our popup and put ourselves back at square one. Like I said, full time RVing is great, but if we hit the road again it’s going to be on our terms and we are not going to depend on a workamping job to help hold us up. Right now we are trying to look as far down the road as we can and find out what we want in the long term and how to achieve it, being a young couple with little money and little knowledge on how to do it.

Long before our talks of selling everything and RVing, we talked about homesteading. Living self sufficiently. Growing our own food, creating our own power, building our own home, living on our own land. If we’ve planned this right, we’ve got a long road ahead. Thank you to all of our loyal followers who have given their support to us during our time on the road. Our journey is far from over. Keep visiting and staying in touch, sign up for our email list and we’ll drop you a line as soon as we have an update. We would love to continue to have your support, thoughts, and comments because our next post we’ll be going over “The Plan”!