Go Small, Live Large

A year ago, working from home was an experiment, and living in an RV was for retired people.

"How things have changed," marveled Scott Watson, who spends most of his time on the road in his 21-foot-long Winnebago Class B motorhome in which he lives, works and explores. Watson used to own a home in Forest Park, but since the interview he did with the Review about year ago, he's put 30,000 new miles on his rig, as he calls it, and visited 25 new states.

News sources report that 40-45 percent of workers are working virtually from home. Watson said the step from working at home to working in an RV is relatively small. As long as he has access to the internet and is productive, his employers don't care where he is working from. He added that RVing is not just for people who want to work from a home on four wheels. Some, he said, "don't want to fly, are afraid of staying in hotels and definitely will not go on cruises, so they look at the RV option and conclude, we can do that."

Apparently many Americans are thinking along the same lines. "RV sales have gone through the roof," he said. "I was at the Winnebago Motor Homes dealer in Rockford recently and they only had one van similar to mine left on the lot. They said that if you came to them with cash in your hand, they would tell you they could have one by January."

Watson had been imagining and researching the RV lifestyle for a decade. Last year when his employer, Lextech, gave him the go ahead to work completely online, he bought his rig for $120,000 and set off on his adventure. He had no idea then that a year later he would have almost 8,000 viewers/subscribers to his YouTube channel, "Go Small. Live Large!" where he posts stories about his experiences and gives advice to people who are interested in doing something like this.

Check out the full article from the Forest Park Review here.