Archive for June, 2008

>Budget-demolishing gas and diesel prices have sent RVs to storage lots while their drivers wonder if they’ll ever roll down the road again.

One option is to combine work with RV travel. Jobs as camp hosts as well as part-time work at other RV resort tasks can often be exchanged for site rent.

Our first year on the road we met Elsa and Fred Schmidt at a KOA resort on the Colorado River in Arizona. They earned their site rent for the winter by working eight hours a week in the park office and outside grooming the flowerbeds.

That winter we also met Dave and Roberta Jones of Heppner, Ore. They’re one of a dozen couples we call our “RV family” because we’ve spent winters together for more than a decade.

This summer Dave and Roberta are working as camp hosts at Cutsforth Park, a rustic, tree-studded county park that’s just a 20-minute drive from their home. It helps that the park is on the shore of a lake loaded with feisty fish, because Dave loves to fish.
Full Story…
—
Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider’s Guide to Working on the Road, 2nd Edition gives you tips, tools and resources to live where you want, when you want. With key points on topics like writing an RV resume, networking, and how to negotiate for better compensation, it is the ultimate handbook for those who are thinking about working or volunteering as they travel in their RV.

>GULFPORT (WLOX) — Gulf Haven Campground has undergone several facelifts over the past three decades. Before Hurricane Camille, the site was a small motel serving residents and visitors of the coast. It reopened as a beachfront RV park, but Katrina changed that too.

“It has been a nightmare but we have been blessed with people trying to help us,” said Owner Diane Henderson.
Full Story…
—
RV Education 101 has bundled it’s instructional DVDs
Get a box set of their individual DVD titles for hours of one on one instruction. Not only does this eliminate the guess work as to which DVDs go together, but you SAVE significant money with the box set discount. There are DVD sets Class A, Class C & Trailers/5th Wheels.

>Alabama-based Tiffin Motor Homes Inc., a major player in an industry that has been battered by rising gasoline prices, has told state officials it plans to lay off nearly 100 workers.

General Manager Tim Tiffin on Friday confirmed a filing Tiffin Motor Homes made with the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs that said the company plans to reduce its work force by 99 positions.

“It’s been a rough six months,” he said of the company founded over three decades ago by his father, Van, in Red Bay, 45 miles south of Florence.

Tiffin Motor Homes has 800 employees, Tim Tiffin said.

“We’ve had to make some adjustments,” he said, declining to comment further on the issue.
Full Story…
—
Support Your RV Lifestyle! An Insider’s Guide to Working on the Road, 2nd Edition gives you tips, tools and resources to live where you want, when you want. With key points on topics like writing an RV resume, networking, and how to negotiate for better compensation, it is the ultimate handbook for those who are thinking about working or volunteering as they travel in their RV.