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What Is This Thing Called Workamping? Our New Life Hello July 2016 $5.00 US BCM $6.00 CANADA Bus Conversion Magazine What Is This Thing Called Workamping? Our New Life Hello Bus Nuts 2 BCM BUS CONVERSION MAGAZINE July 2016 PUBLISHER´S BCM NOTE Gary Hatt Bus Conversion Magazine Our New Office May was a very busy month for BCM. The the two of us in the office, there is Phil Lyons, our Forum RV Park I used to live in, which is located Moderator, Jorge Escobar and Mike Sullivan, who lay out the about a half-mile as the crow flies from magazine and support the website, my sister Linda Sohn, who Disneyland has closed down and is takes care of all of our Subscriptions and Accounting, all of being redeveloped. It will be turned whom work from home in different states. Therefore, we don’t into a three story condo complex with need a large office but we do need to be comfortable. units selling for about $450,000 each. I can buy a nice used early model starter Prevost for that kind The other advantage is that we now have a home base so when of money. I start traveling full time in my bus, we will have a permanent headquarters with someone here to take care of business, The owner of the RV Park also owns another park just down the answer phones, to fill orders, and resolve issues as they arise. road and some of us longtime residents were offered a space With the extra space we will no longer feel so cramped and in there. It is not an RV park; it is a mobile home park. They will be able to process orders much more efficiently and do an pulled out some of the old mobile homes and installed power even better job of taking care of our great customers. pedestals, water, and sewer for RVs. We believe the owners’ long time goal is to tear out all of the mobile homes in the next We still plan to use our old address for now until we get fully few years and build something nicer in that area. Making RV settled, but if you are in the area and want to stop by, give us spaces are relatively easy and can be a good income producing a call and we will gladly provide you directions and give you a property until that time comes. tour of the office. The only problem is, unless you come to visit on a weekend, there is not enough room to park a 40’ bus in I ran this magazine for the past three years out of my MCI the parking lot, so you will have to park elsewhere and bring Log Cabin bus and a 20’ cargo trailer that I insulated, installed your Toad. plywood walls and ceiling, which I painted white and carpeted the floor. I installed LED lighting and also put in twelve 120V Opinions and techniques expressed herein are those of the outlets for power. The bad news is that the new park would authors and do not necessarily represent those endorsed by the not allow me to take my trailer with me so I had to put it into Publisher. Bus Conversion Magazine and the authors respectively storage. That forced me to rent office space, which luckily I accept no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, found only about a a half-hour drive from the RV park I am now alterations, or for any consequences ensuing upon the use of, or living in so it is very convenient. The office is about 500 sq. ft. reliance upon any information contained herein. Tasks performed with large windows in two office rooms. The environment is in maintaining, altering and using vehicles may require specialized much nicer and we were about ready to expand anyway due skills and involve inherent risks to the person doing the work or to to our growing business, so the timing worked out very well. the safe operation of the vehicle. It is the reader’s responsibility to assess their own skills to determine if they can perform any such task With only Stacy and myself in this office we now have more and to seek professionally trained assistance if needed. space so we can organize things a bit more efficiently. Besides Magazine Contacts Published By On The Cover Publisher Bus Conversion Magazine Gary Hatt 9852 Katella Ave STE 361 [email protected] Anaheim, CA 92804 (657) 221-0432 Editorial Mike Sullivan - Senior Editor Website [email protected] www.BusConversions.com Our New Life Jorge Escobar - Layout Editor Jim Bingham and Paula Giddings Accounting/Subscriptions Online Discussion Forum Linda Sohn www.BusConversions.com/bbs/ [email protected] Contributors Becky Lawry Webmaster Moderators Jim Bingham and Paula Giddings Mike Sullivan Roger Lehet [email protected] Nick Badame Jack Conrad Forum Admin K.J “Frank“ Franklin Visit us on our Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/BCMagUSA/ Phil Lyons Paul Lawry “Like” our page and receive $1 off any item in our store. [email protected] Mike Sullivan July 2016 BCM BUS CONVERSION MAGAZINE 3 In This Issue What Is This Thing Publisher´s Note 2 Called Workamping? (By Becky Lawry) Index of Advertisers 3 4 What Is This Thing Called Workamping? By Becky Lawry 4 Our New Life By Jim Bingham and Paula Giddings 10 Hello Bus Nuts By Roger Lehet 19 Our New Life Rally News 24 (By Jim Bingham and Paula Giddings) Service Directory 26 10 Sterling Classifieds 26 Standard Classifieds 30 Hello Bus Nuts Index of Advertisers (By Roger Lehet) 19 ABC Companies 31 Ardemco 23 Exclusively In This Issues´ Atlantic Custom Coach 22 Online Edition of BCM 18 Autex - More of Our New Life B & B Coachworks 5 - More of What Is This Thing Called Workamping BusForSale.com 21 - Western GM Rally - Branson Rally 2016 Byler Rivet 9 - BFTP - Trailways´Own Bus & Car Continues The Choo Choo Express Garage 20 Model 01 - BFTP - Road Fix - Three hours in First Gear Custom Instrument Panels 8 - BFTP - Installing My Detroit Series 60 Engine Heat Protection 19 - Humorous Bus Cartoon - One For The Road - Clever Paint Jobs 11 Engine Power Source - TireTraker Schedule Fastening Systems International 13 - Premier Services - Refurbish or Buy New? Ice Makers 18 - Bus Chat - Loosing Speed Uphill, 8V71 - Digital Classified Ads Lloyd DeGerald Services 12 - Assorted Bus Parts for Sale Mobile RV Glass 23 - SmartPlug Price Sheet Pacific RV Parts 7 Also additional bus related classifieds and potentially other late breaking info. Premiere Services 32 23 RV LED Lites Do you receive only a Print Edition subscription RV Makeovers 21 and would like to add access to the Online Digital 15 Edition? It is easy to upgrade your subscription RV Parts Center for absolutely FREE. SmartPlug 10 Sure Marine Service 6 Just go online to: TireTraker 6 www.BusConversions.com/UpgradeMe Tommy Kaylors Bus and Truck Service 9 Then click the online Add-On from the bottom of the list to add it on Transit Sales International 15 Thanks to our advertisers Unforgettable Fire 22 for supporting Wrico International 14 Bus Conversion Magazine www.BusConversions.com 4 BCM BUS CONVERSION MAGAZINE July 2016 What Is This Thing Called Workamping? BY BECKY LAWRY You may have heard the term, workamping, with no work for you. In no particular order: explanation of what it means. We were not too sure www.happyvagabonds.com/Jobs/New-Job-Listings.htm either when we decided we needed to find a way to www.americanll.com/ travel the way we wanted, and still have the funds to workampingjobs.com/workampingjobs.php eat and buy fuel. After much research, we learned www.work-for-rvers-and-campers.com/ many RV, county, state parks, individuals, and others www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/lewisville/Volunteer/volops.asp utilize the services of workampers. An agreed upon www.facebook.com/groups/workcampingintheusa number of work hours per couple or individual is ex- changed for full hook-ups for their RV. Often it is 20 Be creative when you search – type in the state you hours a week (shared between a couple) or 20 hours a want and add “workamper”. You may be surprised week for an individual (or single). what all pops up. (Note: Some parks will spell it work- camper or work camper.) Some places pay an hourly amount for any hours over that set number of required hours per week. Assign- Typically, the ads request resumes, a photo of your ments can last a month, three months or six months. converted bus, a photo of you, as well as one of your This can all vary, depending on the agreement made. pet. We both had the usual resumes and we prepared We finally had an understanding of what workamp- a cover letter to go along with them. Everything is ing was. What next? submitted electronically – all we had to do was wait! Once an employer determines an interest in a couple The search: We knew what area we hoped to be in, or single, they will arrange a telephone interview. This so we began the search online, starting with simply is where the speaker on a cell phone comes in handy. Googling “Workamping Jobs”. This search lead us down many paths and we are happy to share some The offer follows and you are ready to hit the road links with you (below) to save you hours of research. to your new destination! We have all heard of parks As we searched, we found many of the job require- with age limits on RVs but don’t let that stop you from ments were very similar.
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