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Thursday, August 13, 2009

10 best RV uses for dryer sheets

10 best RV uses for dryer sheets

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

In Ventura County, an increase in the mobile homeless - Los Angeles Times

In Ventura County, an increase in the mobile homeless - Los Angeles Times

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands

The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands

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Friday, July 31, 2009

RV Lifestyle 101: How else can I access the Internet on the road?

RV Lifestyle 101: How else can I access the Internet on the road?

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Jobs on the Road for the Vagabonds

In order to sustain and maintain traveling accessories and equipment, the vagabond with a small or even non existing bank account, may sometimes find themselves stopping over to earn payment for services. The form and amount of payment may depend on the specific job, but as long as the vagabond can attain enough resources to continue trekking, any job will do.

Because of their non materialistic and efficient lifestyle, most vagabonds won't usually need to find a source of income. But in times of hardship and when resources get scarce (like worn out shoes), money can always be obtained to provide for whatever a traveler may need. More elaborate vagabonds usually have higher traveling cost to maintain and provide fuel for RVs, trailers, wagons, campers, towing vehicles, and other expenses attached to motorised traveling. The vagabonds with larger wagons, typically travel in groups, some having family members sharing one RV, or a caravan of many RVs of other nomads, gypsies, wanderers, drifters, and tramps.

Opportunities for the Vagabond

Below is a list of various fields of work that a traveler can look for, all depending on how long the traveler is willing to stay in one area, there is always work to be found anywhere your wheels or feet take you.

Seasonal jobs sites:

Jobs are available everywhere you go.

  • Farms (crop pickers, equipment operators, animals to tend)
  • Amusement Parks (maintenance, sales, promotions, services)
  • Cruise Ships (cooking, hosting, housekeeping, travel guide)
  • Outdoorsman Camp (fishing, hunting, guides)
  • Training Centers (teaching, organising)
  • Construction Sites (skilled trades, labour)
  • Tradeshows (sales, promotions, bartering, great place to sale stuff)
  • Tourist Sites
  • Campgrounds (office work, reservations, sales, grounds maintenance, handy-person, housekeeping, running social activities).
  • Property Owners (house sitting, gardening, pet sitting, landscaping)
  • Tax Centers (having ability to do tax returns. Get trained and go to work remotely or at a local tax form preparation office.)

Skill-Specific Work:

A skilled worker is any worker who has some special skill, knowledge, or (usually acquired) ability in his work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or, a skilled worker may have learned his skills on the job.

  • Skilled Labour (equipment operator, carpenter, mason, electrician, plumber, painter, etc.)
  • Consulting (providing specialist advice to other people who work in the same field)
  • Teaching
  • Personal Care
  • Property Management

Wagon based work:

It is just like a home based job, however with today's communication technology, a vagabond can work out of his RV. Some mobile communications gadgets are required, for example mobile phone and fax machine, laptop, portable printer and scanner, etc...

  • Publishing
  • Sales
  • Marketing

Vagabond Jobs Descriptions

Recreational Activities Worker:

Plan, organize, and direct activities in local playgrounds and recreation areas, parks, community centers, religious organizations, camp sites, theme parks, and tourist attractions. Performers, Event Planners, Sports Coordinators, Fishermen and Hunters, etc...

Property Caretaker:

Property Care for financial compensation, and sometimes in exchange for rent-free living accommodations. Ranch Sitters, Bed & Breakfast and Inn Sitters, Property Managers, Estate Managers, Hosts, Mechanics, Electricians, Cooks, Landscapers, Farmers and Gardeners, House Sitters, etc...

Personal Caregiver:

Someone with health care skills, who is employed to care for another person or pets, can look for jobs like. Pet Walkers, Teachers, Pet Groomers, Caterers, House Cleaners, Nurses, Hair Stylist, etc...

Mystery Shopper:

Mystery shopping or Mystery Consumer is a tool used by market research companies to measure quality of retail service or gather specific information about products and services. Mystery shoppers posing as normal customers perform specific tasks—such as purchasing a product, asking questions, registering complaints or behaving in a certain way – and then provide detailed reports or feedback about their experiences.

Travel Guide/Agent:

Provide travel related services for weary travelers such guides, tours, and travel arrangements. Travel agent, Host, Tour Guide, etc...

Publisher/Writer/Producer:

Making information available for public view and getting paid for it can be a vagabond's source of income. Using the internet to publish blogs, tips, articles, stories, even novels could be a rewarding way of getting money for the traveler, since there is no need to stop over.

Online Entrepreneur:

Every day more and more entrepreneurs are building successful businesses using the internet. There is an abundance of opportunity online and depending on the venture; there is often less cost and risk involved when compared with traditional businesses.

Traditional Business:

Small business can be operated out of an RV, such as selling a product or service in return for money or other means of compensation.

Paid Online Surveys:

You can earn money just for sharing your opinion; it's a fun and easy way to make some money help for some travel expenses. Sign up on the following websites to start some surveys that pay now.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Choosing the Right Vagabond Wagon



The Modern Vagabond lifestyle is made up of those born with the tendency to roam and camp rather than living in one location. There is a large segment of vagabonds who tend to travel by foot carrying their life in a back sack and there are some who participate in the RV lifestyle. Many of the foot bound vagabonds will hop in with the vagabonds who live in an RV, the ones who choose to have a motorized wagon type vehicle, and their houses are on wheels. The RV style of vagabonding is more for the collector type, vagabond families or groups, or those who prefer a more comfortable and safe slumber. Also, the RV vagabond always needs to find a source of income or trading to maintain and provide fuel for their wagon.

While many vagabonds are pensioners from their time served in the rat race (they are usually 50 years of age or older), other younger vagabonds are choosing RV travel as a way to see parts of the world while earning income using the gadget that the communication technology has to offer. An RV can have the internet, mobile phones and fax, and whatever gadget needed to get a job done. Vagabonds will usually not stop in camping sites for the reasons that, money is not needed, more choice of spots to park, for quiet and privacy, more self-sufficiency and to be nearer a specific location.

The vagabond’s RV typically has a good bed, a table and bench, and a kitchen. Vagabonds who travel in groups may have larger RVs which have bathrooms with shower, refrigerators, living areas, master bedrooms, and all. Very resourceful vagabonds can even have, satellite TV and Internet access, slide-out sections, and awnings, and either carry a small car inside it or towing it. A nice abode on wheels for any vagabonds can cost from less than $3,000 to $1,500,000 or more. However, most vagabonds, who are usually more mobile than a typical camper type, will have RVs that are more on the compact easier to “pick up and go” style.
One type of RV that a vagabond may favour, is the truck camper, a unit that is temporarily let into the bed or chassis of a pickup truck. This style has a few advantages over trailer types of RVs. For instance, there is the “pick up and go” factor, the traveler’s house is always ready to go, without a hitch, with the turn of a key, and the maneuverability cannot be matched. Where ever the towing vehicle goes, the house goes to, the same can be said about the Class ABC RV. These types are converted buses, vans, trucks into a RV, usually called motor homes. The big disadvantage is that, the vagabond’s house is also the vagabond’s horse, which is kind of a strange thought. With the truck camper the vagabond has a truck which can be utilized for other purposes and a house that can be temporally left behind if needed.

The truck camper RV requires a good pickup truck. Choosing a pickup truck for a camper will depend on the amount in weight the vagabond will need to carry. For the vagabond who chooses to travel alone, a smaller camper can be used with a ½ ton pickup truck. If there are more vagabonds using the same camper, then a bigger truck, like a ¾ ton or even a 1 ton truck can be used. The bigger campers can be as long as 12’ and will usually accommodate 4 to 6 vagabonds.
The craftier vagabond will design and build their own RVs out of cars, vans, buses, or whatever they can find to fit their needs. This is probably the most economical for a vagabond to acquire an RV for traveling, but it requires some mechanical skills and traveling time can be significantly reduced during the building stage of the RV.

“There is a stereotype of vagabonds, gypsies, drifters, campers and nomads alike who live in RVs full-time do so because they are poor and cannot afford a home. Little do they know that a vagabond is a vagabond because if he stayed in one spot to long he might end up becoming a bum?”

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Vagabond (person)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A vagabond is an itinerant person. Such people may be called drifters, tramps, rogues, or hobos. A vagabond is characterised by almost continuous travelling, lacking a fixed home, temporary abode, or permanent residence. Vagabonds are not bums, as bums are not known for travelling, preferring to stay in one location.
Historically, "vagabond" was a British legal term similar to vagrant, deriving from the Latin for 'purposeless wandering'. Following the Peasants' Revolt, British constables were authorised under a 1383 statute to collar vagabonds and force them to show their means of support; if they could not, they were jailed. Under a 1495 statute, vagabonds could be sentenced to the stocks for three days and nights; in 1530, whipping was added. The assumption was that vagabonds were unlicensed beggars.
By the 19th century the vagabond was associated more closely with Bohemianism. The critic Arthur Compton-Rickett compiled a review of the type, in which he defined it as men "with a vagrant strain in the blood, a natural inquisitiveness about the world beyond their doors." Examples included Henry David Thoreau, Michael John Arthur Bujold, Walt Whitman, Leo Tolstoy, William Hazlitt, and Thomas de Quincey. A notable 20th century vagabond was the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. ryimpfshk2