Monday May 23rd 2016

It was a good commuting day. The traffic moved right along in both directions. Usually it will backup at the major intersections; not today.

It was also a good weather day. It started and ended cool, but got up to around 80 during the afternoon. A good summertime high, but with the cool overnights it is clearly still spring. Tonight and tomorrow morning are supposed to be rainy. I hope it doesn’t rain all day because tomorrow it’s time to move my RV home to the next camp. I’m heading for western Massachusetts for the holiday weekend.

Even the campground’s bounce pillow is taking a rest today. It hasn’t been aired up today.

This campground is rather sleepy today. There seem to be more yellow shirted park workers than campers. The park staff has been cleaning out fire pits from the weekend and mowing the grass. Most of the park staff seem to be work campers exchanging a number of hours of work for a site. It is a good way to support this nomadic lifestyle. During your off time you get to visit the area while keeping your expenses down. Some work camping jobs even pay a salary, but those usually involve more skilled positions or more hours.

Another form of work camping is volunteering at National Forests, National Wildlife Resource areas or other public lands. Typical jobs involve manning visitor centers, providing tours, and light maintenance in exchange for a campsite with hookups. These are particularly popular with people who are amateur nature and wildlife experts. There is a web site that lists these jobs; Volunteer.gov.

I might look into this type of work camping if I get bored with travel (not likely).