Working & RV'ing

Maybe you could "take off" every Wednesday as a driving day, so you'd have Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday for travel days. That would give you two days to work, a break day, a full Thursday, and then maybe knock off a little early on Fridays.

Lincoln11 wrote:
We travel full-time in our RV and run our business. When we are on the road, I drive and my wife works. All I can say is our cell phone booster on the road is a tremendous asset, and our Wifi booster at parks is a must as well.
TechnoRV is a great resource for this type of product for your RV.

LJ

Thank you! could you pass along the specifics on the products you use? Thanks again!

We travel full-time in our RV and run our business. When we are on the road, I drive and my wife works. All I can say is our cell phone booster on the road is a tremendous asset, and our Wifi booster at parks is a must as well.
TechnoRV is a great resource for this type of product for your RV.

LJ

A lot of good info above BUT the thing that has me harnessed to the desk during work hours is the Skype for Business App that is deemed mandatory by my employer. At any point during the day someone can request my immediate attention by IM or see my Skype status such as: Available, Busy, Mobile, Away, etc. Our work phones are also integrated with Skype and we are unable to forward them to our cell phones.

Because of the Skype issue above, I generally travel on weekends and use part of Sunday as a connection test day with Wi-Fi and cell service. Generally stay at KOA or other Wi-Fi facility when I am working during the week. When staying in national or state parks I have also been known to get up in the morning and go the lodge for all day Wi-Fi session.

Of course one of the work arounds to this Skype issue is to set up the laptop in the truck and use my cell phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot and stay connected while I drive, wife acts as my admin.

For us,being Im disabled and my wife worked remote..I would breakup the the trip into sections of working week or weeks and vacation time(time where wifi and phone coverage wasn't most important..During work time our vacation spot wifi and phone coverage took top billing and once work was done for the day we would explore and spend our 5hrs of daylight having fun....If the time zone worked in our favor being from the east coast and vacation in the Rockies,get up at 5am start working at 6am finish at 3 or 4pm(EST was either 5 or 6pm) and we did this for many years...

You will have good cell phone signals along the interstates, especially Verizon, which is much better in TN than ATT. At times it may drop to 3G. Set up your smart phone to use as a hot spot. Verify that you can also talk on it at the same time. If not, you could get a second inexpensive phone just for talking on.

One of you could work while the other drives. With 3 weeks to work with, you should just be able to plan 2-3 days at a time. IMHO that's the best way to plan a trip anyway. Make a list of your must-sees, so you don't miss any of them. Make sure you have reservations for Friday and Saturday nights.

Conference calls are usually planned in advance. Simple: pull over and stop to participate in a conference call. As far as email and VPN... got a smartphone with a hotspot? Problem solved. If bandwidth is a problem hook up with Verizon for their portable Wi-Fi solution. Don't make a big deal out of a simple problem.

I think the key would be be to have outstanding Internet connections including VPN in case of working...

For us Verizon seems to do it the best for the long haul...

Used to travel and work all the time with DOD CONTRACTORs who lives by meetings haha... Was'nt too hard to keep up...

I have checked into many meetings sitting at the park or roadside table haha...

Roy Ken

Take a look at www.rv-dreams.com

This site will walk you through the best setup to provide connectivity when you need it. They use WiFi and Cell based systems to access the internet daily.

I have often pulled off the road in an area with good cell service to participate in a conference call. For video conference I will use an internet cafe or location with a good WiFi system.