Small Town, Big Life: Trying Out Work Camping

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After that ridiculous election, we need to try something new to distract ourselves from the fall of western civilization. Kristy spies an interesting entry on the WorkKampers website--a 2-day-a-week camp host job at Shoshone RV Park, just 5 miles down the road from our BLM boondock site near Tecopa Hot Springs. We send an inquiry email saying, “Hi. We’re full-time RVers hanging out in this area for the winter months and we’d like to talk to you about the camp host position. If you haven’t already filled it, let us know and we’ll come by.” No response. And we’re a little bit sad because the RV park has a sweet little warm springs swimming pool and a nearby tennis court for playing pickle ball, but we figure it isn’t meant to be and let it go. In the meantime, we’re hiking and biking out in our desert wash, cruising in to Tecopa for the occasional mineral hot springs soak, and enjoying the high-desert ambience.

Debbie, Annette and Shug

 A couple of weeks later, we get an email asking us to drop by the RV park and before you know it we’ve become the official Tuesday and Wednesday camp hosts with a free RV site. The managers of the park, Debbie and Clay, who have been living the RV life for 20 years, are warm, funny people with boundless energy. Counting Shug, and, of course, we do, the three of us comprise 10% of the population of Shoshone, CA.

Our home at Shoshone RV Park

Museum

The Crowbar Cafe and Saloon

Shoshone Inn

General store (where Lynn is working)

Old cabin

Sheriff's Office

Old building

The market across the street from the museum and restaurant

Checking out the pup fish ponds

Pup fish pond

Old miners dugouts \ Dublin Gulch

Warm Spring pool 89 degrees year round

Kristy soaking

Annette sporting her new robe