For personal reasons, I needed to be in SD (preferably near Rapid City) for the summer. I thought I’d hit the jackpot when I found a WK gig less than 1 hour south of Rapid City. The phone interviews were proforma and we quickly came to agreement. I’m not going to go into all the gory details (I’ve already posted those on a workamper review site) but the situation got to be unbearable for me.

As we like to say, your house has wheels so you can move whenever you want. I found another opportunity less than 2 hours east, gave 1 weeks notice and rolled out.

The new opportunity is something I’d looked at before just because it’s unique. The first time I saw it advertised it was just running a farm stand in a rural SD town and staying in an RV park 1 mile away. The current iteration was slightly different.

It involved actually staying on the farm and performing other duties in addition to the farm stand. There’s a lot of back road driving involved, but that’s certainly less back breaking than shoveling dirt to make sewer repairs. And there are bonuses to being on a farm. I get fresh eggs for breakfast. I get to sample a lot of produce and get the overage at times.

It’s remote though. The nearest paved road is 9 miles away and I really got concerned bringing the RV over the road. The owners have tried to make it as RV friendly as possible. There are several FHU RV sites on the property and the Wi-Fi is reliable enough to stream video.

Overall, it’s a good gig for 7 weeks but I’m still looking forward to heading east for Amazon. This far east in the state it gets HOT. Not a problem when I’m inside but the farm stand is a different story.