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There are perhaps two hundred listeners who persevere on camping chairs this January morning in glaring sun of Mojave Desert. The majority is already older, many have walking sticks with m, some even rollators. You have come to this remote region of state of Arizona to listen to a man: Bob Wells.
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With his round face and long beard, 62-year-old looks like a sun-burned Santa Claus. He is initiator of “rubber Tramp Rendezvous”, in short RTR: an annual meeting of people who live in mobile homes and work on respective pitches or nearby. “Workamping” is also called half-work and half-camping. Wells is a Workamper of first hour.
He started over 20 years ago when he was broke after a divorce. With his last money, he bought a used van and began to live in it. He found work in a Safeway supermarket. At first he stayed in Anchorage, Alaska, living near his ex-wife and two sons. But he loved his new way of life. He is now a self-appointed missionary. “For me, mobile life is treasure of gold at end of rainbow,” he explains eloquently.
Wells actually has a growing allegiance. No one has any statistics on how many Workamper re are in country. But if you ask around in scene, everyone agrees that ir numbers are steadily rising. 2010 organized wells The first RTR, and only 45 friends and acquaintances came. Last year 500 campers were already with m. This January, game wardens of sanctuary in which meeting took place, included over 3,000 RTR participants. Wells ‘ blog posts, in which he gives tips for mobile life, regularly look at over 130,000 spectators.
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For this year’s RTR, participants will be rolling in mobile homes with names such as “Prairie Schooner”. They come in vans, discarded horse vans and skoolies, as y call school buses that are converted into homes. You meet minimalist like suane. The grandmor who is organising RTR has been living in her car for one and a half years. Or as she puts it herself: “Out of car”. After all, nature is now your home.
In her white Toyota Prius she uses every inch of it. On one side of car it has created a lying surface which occupies half of trunk and rear seat. The or half of back seat is used as an office, where it works on your laptop.
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Suane misses in her life “a toilet with water flushing”. If you don’t park your Prius in a campsite with a toilet, it’ll pee in a yogurt cup. Then it fills contents into an old detergent bottle until it can dispose of everything properly. Many RTR participants are proud of ir vehicles and like to show how y can make it all possible in what an ordinary home offers. The dropouts come from all industries and professions. There is former owner of a hairdressing salon and lively end-fifties, who was a cop until retirement. There is job manager as well as managers of an airline, who is now a mobile creative in online marketing. A former librarian from New York is just like concrete mixer from Alaska.
Many of m have come to area because y hope to secure a job for coming months. At same time as RTR, a large motorhome fair takes place Quartzsite a few kilometres away. There are more than 250,000 visitors every year. In low season, in summer, when temperatures can reach 50 degrees Celsius, only 3,500 people live re, but during winter months place swells. Then re are thousands of motorhomes from so-called snowbirds here, pensioners who flee winter in colder places.
