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I've recently subscribed to a couple van life channels to get ideas and recommendations for a long cross country road trip I might want to take later this year.
We'll stay in hotels/motels/Holiday Inns lol - but there is the possibility we'll want to visit some remote spots without much in the way of facilities.
Anyway, it occurred to me - that most of these people are full time and many fund their expenses through remote work.
Seems like gas and restaurant shops would be perfect for that lifestyle.

Thinking out loud.

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Actually, the remote work they are doing is more like photography, travel, and merchandise sales not Mystery Shopping.

We've been watching a number of Van Life and RV YouTubers for years; Kara and Nate, Trent and Allie, Jimmy & Natalie, The Endless Adventure, Finding Our Someday, Keep Your Daydream, Wandering Wakims, From She to Me, Gone With The Wynns, Less Junk More Journey, Travel Beans, Andre and Lisa, Adventures of A+K, etc. etc.

My post didn't say they are doing mystery shopping.

I said it might be a good fit as part of that lifestyle. I am familiar with the types of remote work they typically do as it's similar to digital nomads as I used to be one lol....except my remote work was government work.

I got what you meant and yes, I think it could fit in quite well. It is unlikely any of the van lifers are doing it if you figure the percentage of the general population that even knows this is viable work.

Most of the van life people I have seen are content creators.

@BarefootBliss, were you a nomad outside of the US? Regardless, WOW! Fascinating!

oh no, only in the US.....but I do know quite a few people who are nomads outside the US.
I have done long trips outside the US....months at a time, so maybe that could be true...
depends on how you define it lol.
Sometimes when I was a nomad in the US, I had no home base.
Outside of the US, I always had a home to come back to here...
oh my this is confusing, even to me! LOL

From what I've read, van life people are homeless. Maybe something to keep in mind, maybe not.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

Once upon a time, before being homeless was popular, my kids and I lived in a travel trailer, and we pulled it with a super banana yellow dodge tradesman van. We never really left CA, except once to go to AZ for the weekend with some friends. It wasn't a bad life, but that was LONG before I started mystery shopping, my youngest son was still an infant, and the older boys had just started elementary school. I hadn't even learned how to be a mechanic back then, I had to pay someone to put freeze plugs in my van..

I don't think I could do that again without having a home base, and I know for a fact that a van wouldn't cut it. It would have to be at least a small class C motorhome. But I can envision going to see the glaciers in Canada like I we did when we went on vacation with my dad as kids. And going to see all the National Parks, might take more than one year though, because I'm not driving in the snow.

I could probably pull that off with just grocery shops and Image audits and my SS retirement.. though I'm probably not going to try. I may not like AL, but it's home and I chose this life.

I've thought of it as a "hack" for when I go to outdoor music shows....lots of the events I attend there may be few lodging options in the area or what exists - the prices are jacked up during events....adding a cot and a cooler for a night or two, has a certain appeal.
I did do that with a friend a few years back and we parked too close to the music and the partying....got no sleep on those nights - so being mindful of parking is important.

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