Working from your RV
RV Open Road
There are more RVers than ever hitting the road to embrace a life of more travel and freedom, with a noticeable increase in the number of working age RVers like us. We're now in our fourth year of full-time RVing and we have no plans to hang up the keys anytime soon! Since 2014, we have traveled to 49 out of the 50 US states (Alaska’s on the horizon for summer 2018) and visited Canada, Mexico and Australia – all while working full-time.
This would not be possible if it were not for technology – and the ability to stay connected – so we can continue to work remotely from our motorhome. When we decided to sell our home in Colorado and embrace the RV lifestyle back in 2014, our first critical decision was not what RV to buy or where we would go, but whether or not the level and quality of internet connectivity would be sufficient, accessible and affordable enough for us to still seamlessly perform our jobs without any hiccups.
Before we even started looking at RVs, we started looking into our options for “staying connected on the road,” explained Marc. At first, we assumed we would need to get some kind of satellite setup, which would be expensive, but we quickly learned that the services offered by the major cellular networks available these days are really all we would need.
A quick Google search soon led us to the Mobile Internet Handbook for RVers (by full-time nomads Chris Dunphy and Cherie Ve Ard) which we devoured. It immediately set our minds at ease, as we soon realized that many thousands of other people were already doing this, without any interruption to their work. ...
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