This blog is supposed to be about camping, right? Or RVing? After all, its name is For-Camping.com. Its tag line is “Info. and Opinion for and by Campers and RVers.” So what’s this about making money online?

Well, I guess it’s about being honest with myself. Deb and I really enjoy camping! We so look forward to hooking up the travel trailer and heading out for an adventure. Yep, an adventure, whether our destination is close to home, or halfway across the country. And that’s what I wanted to write about in this blog. The things we run into on the road, the products we try and like…or don’t. The great people we meet. The fine, and not so fine campgrounds we visit. At least some of the things we learn along the way.

But…the freedom to do that doesn’t come cheap, as they say. Right now, we’re both still working. (I find myself putting in a lot of ten or more hour days, which make finding blogging time a bit tough!) We are, however, not too far from that ol’ retirement age and wanting more and more to be able to enjoy the open road while we’re both still healthy and spry enough to really enjoy it. Any of you who have hauled a trailer or driven a motor home know about the costs involved. Some of us have ample pensions, or have otherwise been in a position to build up a sufficient retirement income. Deb and I? Not so much. So, yes, developing an ongoing income stream is important to us.

Why look to online business as an income source? One obvious answer is because there’s a huge market potential online. There need not necessarily be a huge investment in a “bricks-and-mortar” business site. Most important for would-be road warriors like us is the ability to operate an online business from anywhere we have an Internet connection. I have such admiration for Chuck Woodbury, publisher of RVTravel.com. What a great web site! Lot’s of really helpful and interesting information for the RVing crowd. A camping and RVing bookstore, a popular forum, a blog, and lots of links to other great resources. I have no idea what Mr. Woodbury earns from his online business, but I’d guess it would support our travelin’ dreams nicely.

So, yes, I want to devise a way, or ways, to make money online. Maybe this blog will be a start. Deb wants to take pictures at every campground and RV park we visit and post some of them, along with our take on the place. Maybe other campers and RVers will be interested in those posts. We’ll probably post our experiences with various products related to camping/RVing and maybe see if the best of them have affiliate programs we can join. As far as blogging itself goes, I’ve become quite interested in Yaro Starak’s blog at Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. Yes, he’s trying to sell courses and consulting, but also has a ton of great information available at no cost.

Well, enough for now. Time to get to bed so I can be nice and fresh for tomorrow’s ten hour day. Wait…our trailer is calling to me. I can hear it. Honest!