From Remote Employee to Traveling Entrepreneur

ON A FRIDAY afternoon in November 2020, I was sitting in my fifth wheel, parked on Bureau of Land Management land in the Arizona desert. I closed my laptop, walked outside, and popped a bottle of champagne with the friends we were caravanning with. It was my last day of working for someone else—on Monday, my first day of entrepreneurship would begin.

Some people dream of being an entrepreneur, but that wasn’t me! I enjoyed the stability, mentorship, and collaboration of being employed by a company. When I took my full-time, remote marketing director job in 2018, I figured I had it made—what could be better than traveling while collecting a paycheck?

But full-time RV travel changed me. Once I felt the freedom of taking my home anywhere,