Us, Workcamping?????????

One of the things that we thought might be fun to experience while we were on the road was workcamping.

Workcamping is (wait for it……..) working while you are camping! 🙂

Enlightening aren’t I? hehehe!

Many workcampers work for a campground that they are parked at exchanging labor for their campsite fees, or even for the site fees with a bit in wages too, depending on the position, difficulty and amount of work, cost of the site…

While we thought that it would be a great experience for the kids to be able to work for a campground(s) along the way, it really wasn’t an option for us as we:

1. had some difficulty finding campgrounds that would let our large family rent a site let alone put us to work also

2. we never stayed at one spot long enough to try to work out an arrangement with a campground.

Sounded like it would be a great experience, and while we would have like to try it, it just wasn’t feasible while we were traveling. Then by the time that we got back home, we were busy with other things (though the first campground that we stayed at did approach Vaughn about fixing their roof in exchange for the site) and we didn’t give it much more thought.

After we stayed at Canyon Ferry Lake, then we parked on the outskirts of town at the firework stand for about 2 weeks. One of those days, while we were manning the firework stand, we received a call from the manager of the CFL campground, asking if we had ever thought about camp hosting. We hadn’t seriously thought about it since it had never really been an option, but we agreed to talk it over and get back to her. After discussing it a bit, we decided to go for it – I mean, why not? We were in town for a few more months, we might not get another chance to try it out, and surely we could find the kids some manual labor while we were there because, hey, you CAN play too much!

So, here we find ourselves workcamping – working for our full-hookup site (the site we had reserved for this time is $525/mo.), a bit of grocery money, and a few great perks too! Especially since we were not even looking for a workcamping job, this particular position is a cushy one! (We are continually amazed how God opens up doors for us – opportunities that we would like to experience, but don’t think are possible. But, of course, all things are possible with our omnipotent God!)

So, we have been ‘on the job’ for a total of 6 days so far, and let me tell you, I think that this may be my dream job! LOL! ~well, except for the mosquitoes!!! If I seem to start sounding a bit, ummm, emotionally unstable in my posts, it will be because those annoying, sadistic pests (which are incredibly prolific here) are driving me insane!!! We all look like we have the chicken pox, and have already bought and gone through so many bottles/cans of insect repellent it may just cost us money to stay here! Have yet to find a brand that works – I was a ‘no-deet‘ person before coming here, now I don’t care what it is, slather it on as long as it keeps those crazy biting machines away! We are also getting to used to remembering to light those tiki torch thingys (which the kids think are so cool!), and always have citronella candles burning on the picnic tables.

And speaking of picnic tables (because I was, wasn’t I?) – they even set up TWO big picnic tables for us! It’s awfully nice to be able to spread out instead of squishing together at one table at regular sites.

I will fill you in better a little later. Until then, you can find us hanging out at the lake, swimming and kayaking, and shooting the breeze with oodles of sweet retired people (the weekends are another story). It’s a tough job (NOT), but I guess that someone REALLY DOES have to do it!Glad it’s us! LOL!
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