Add fun and adventure to your RV travels!
Working and volunteering on the road can make your RV travels even more fun! You often get to do things the ordinary tourist never gets to do. Sue volunteered in search and rescue at Yosemite and rode a helicopter up and down alongside Bridal Veil Falls three times in one day. Jean helped Cinderella put on her costume at Disney World.
RV workers may also get to do things tourists pay money to do. As part of George's volunteer training at Big Bend National Park, both volunteers and seasonal workers took an overnight canoe trip down the Rio Grande through Santa Elena Canyon (see photo by George Bruzenak). Workers in Branson, Missouri get free and discounted tickets to the shows. Ron and Val could ride the ferry to Juneau and Skagway at no cost when they worked in Haines, Alaska.
By staying in one place for a while, you get to know the area. Locals tell you special things to do. Fellow workers at national parks gave us directions to petroglyph sites and Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins that were not on any of the maps. You have time to see more because you don't have to see it all in a few days.
Besides helping the pocketbook, working or volunteering can provide experiences you'd never otherwise have.
Learn about Jaimie Hall's recently revised book, Support Your RV LIfestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Road, 2nd ed., at RVBookstore.com.
RV workers may also get to do things tourists pay money to do. As part of George's volunteer training at Big Bend National Park, both volunteers and seasonal workers took an overnight canoe trip down the Rio Grande through Santa Elena Canyon (see photo by George Bruzenak). Workers in Branson, Missouri get free and discounted tickets to the shows. Ron and Val could ride the ferry to Juneau and Skagway at no cost when they worked in Haines, Alaska.
By staying in one place for a while, you get to know the area. Locals tell you special things to do. Fellow workers at national parks gave us directions to petroglyph sites and Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins that were not on any of the maps. You have time to see more because you don't have to see it all in a few days.
Besides helping the pocketbook, working or volunteering can provide experiences you'd never otherwise have.
Learn about Jaimie Hall's recently revised book, Support Your RV LIfestyle! An Insider's Guide to Working on the Road, 2nd ed., at RVBookstore.com.
posted by Jaimie Hall-Bruzenak at
2:08 PM
1 Comments:
Big Bend is cool and I have volunteered there with NPS and the BBNHA! I highly suggest it. Shane
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