Saskia and Richard's RVing Adventures

So you want to spend some time in an RV camp and get your site rental for free? Sounds like a dream come true to a retired couple that are are travelling across the USA in their fifth-wheel RV, right? But it's very possible because US State Parks, National Parks, the Forest Service, public and private RV campsites all employ seasonal workers. For free rental of your site, you work the minimum required hours of around 20 - 28 a week, which works out at 2 days between you and your partner, (working the same days) and the rest of the time is yours to relax and continue your exploration of the local area from your RV. You can work for a month or 6 months or even a year depending on the seasons the park is open. If you totally love the place, you might even try to get rehired the following year. You decide. Of course you can work more than the agreed hours and get paid, if that is on offer – that's up to you too. Sometimes you get extras like electricity paid, or f...

I woke up in the early hours of this beautiful Arizona highland morning with a severe case of deja-vu. Systems training, training manuals, data input, customer service, writing promotional material, pep talk from the boss, it all came flooding back since Wednesday, when I began my first day of Work-Camping at Elk Pines RV Resort . I couldn't get back to sleep at all. Perhaps this nightmarish nostalgia had been triggered by my recent viewing of a film set in Port Glasgow, not far from where Richard and I used to work and live in Scotland before we gave up all that stress and moved to the USA to begin our retired RV lifestyle. But two days into our new 3 day a week jobs in the resort (me in the office and Richard doing maintenance) has certainly brought back lots of memories. Our trailer - parked in site number 10 For Richard, it's also brought back use of muscles he forgot he had. As maintenance man, on his first day he jumped right in (literally) to dig...