Setting up online income streams for the road

06/07/2012 by Leave a Comment

Since we aren’t looking to wait until we are retired to hit the road, we have to find ways to bring income in while we are traveling through the states.  Since I started working for myself a year ago I have built up a small client list–I do online marketing for local business owners who never had a website.  This will be a good source of income, but I like to diversify things a bit so if any one thing goes down, I can have other legs keeping everything steady.

In the last 3 weeks, I have come across two online that I can work up and get us ready for when we leave.  I will share them with you below.

At the first of the year, I started working on Adsense sites to build up some monthly revenue.  It was long, arduous process of keyword research, website creation, article marketing and Adsense tweaking.  But the sites are working now and I haven’t had to do much to them in the last 2 months.  It’s probably enough to pay for my monthly fees for my sites and domains so that it good. However, the way Google has been lately, I don’t even count on that money being there at all and have since stopped building on it.

I also wanted to find something that some of my friends and family could do on the side to build up some extra income.  Because of this, the side thing couldn’t be too technical.  I can definitely geek out a lot, but I wanted my friends and family to be able to follow some instructions and be successful.

 

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Urban Stealth Camping- Boondocking with a Twist

04/17/2012 by Leave a Comment

What is Urban Stealth Camping

RV, Rotorua, New Zealand

RV, Rotorua, New Zealand from hmcharge on flickr

Urban stealth camping or urban boondocking is the process of boondocking within the confines of a city instead of the great outdoors.  While many RV’ers have heard that you can quietly stay at a Wal-Mart parking lot overnight if you are passing through and just need a place to park- as long as you don’t pull out the awning and grill out and make sure you leave the next morning, you can call it home for the night. For most people, rv parks work out perfectly for traveling and staying somewhere overnight.

Who it is best for

People with smaller rigs tend to do better with urban stealth camping as it is easier for them to go unnoticed with the best rigs being older conversion vans.  If your rig can fit in a typical parking lot and looks more like an over-sized van you have a better shot at blending in.  If you tend to worry about someone coming out and asking you to leave, then it might be best to stick to rv parks.

 

What is the purpose

For a lot of RV’ers the reasoning behind the city camping varies. Sometimes rv parks are just too crowded or loud or even too expensive to do every night.  Some come for the evening just to sleep before getting back on the road to their final destination.  Others, see it as a challenge for how many days or weeks can they live throughout the city without getting noticed and without resorting to staying in rv parks for any duration.  For several, just finding a big city that they want to explore without having to pay high hotel fee or parking their rig near a downtown area with an active night scene makes for a great way to stay safe while enjoying a night on the town.

 

 

Resources

We first heard about urban stealth camping from @camperclinic2.  For a more in depth explanation of how to do it, check out Bob Difley’s Article on Urban boondocking as a survival technique

Your thoughts?  

So do you think you could take urban boondocking to the extreme or just use the process on an as needed basis or are rv parks the only way to go for you?

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