This post begins with a disclaimer. If you read a wide array of workamping job descriptions, you find a huge variety of job titles, duties, hours and expectations. My job title was Lighthouse Interpreter which meant I’d give tours to visitors to include history and interesting information about the Heceta Head Lighthouse. So, the disclaimer […]
Finally, after sharing information about workamping in general and my particular workamping experience, it’s time to share the details of the Heceta Head Lighthouse itself. Because we couldn’t take tours into the lighthouse (closed for maintenance), we interacted with visitors outside the lighthouse. This made the tour much less formal so we gauged a person’s […]
I started last week off by saying this, but want to say it again. The perks of my workamping experience reflect only my experience. If you take a workamping job, you shouldn’t expect the same. Certainly, there might be different perks but best to walk into the job expecting none. That way anything you might […]
Workamping combines working with camping. Hence, the term. From the start, workamping has been on the list of things I wanted to try on road. From the start, I also wanted to work at a lighthouse. So I felt especially grateful that I experienced both at once and as my first job. Today’s post is […]
I have spent the month of December as a volunteer at the Heceta Head Lighthouse, near Florence, Oregon. In exchange for my 20 hours per week, I received a free campsite at a nearby campground. It’s a great exchange and has come with unexpected perks making it even a better deal than I originally expected. […]
This post comes with a disclaimer. Writing this on a different day would certainly mean a different list. The list of awesome places to visit grows longer every day. Plus think of all the places I don’t even know exists yet. These are the places I have to discover by discovering them. Places I may […]