My wife and I were camping at a hot spring in Arizona when a small camper van pulled in.

We watched a man get out and remove many large plastic bags, which he piled on the roof.

He was making room, so he could spend the night in his home on the road.

RV traveling on a road next to a lake

Later, around a campfire, we asked him about the bags.

Are you ready to hit the road and make money while living in an RV?

7 Ways to Make Money if You Hate People

Do you avoid people too?

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Enough small talk.Here are some waysto earn extra cash, without all of the social stuff.

What Kind of Work Can You Do While Living in an RV?

Many campers getseasonal jobsworking in campgrounds or parks, Workamper editor Steve Anderson toldCBS News.

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He notes businesses are also common.

We have literally hundreds of members running businesses out of their RVs and living in multiple places every year.

Who Is Living in an RV, and How Much Can They Earn?

And your income may not be as limited as you might think.

Thats $350,000 in total sales.

Terry Cooper was a college instructor before hitting the road with hisMobile RV Academy.

Now he runs five-day courses teaching people how to maintain and repair RVs.

Not every job or business on the road has to be RV-related.

How do you learn what you should probably know?

Try hanging out in theWorkamper forumsfor a while.

In fact, starting a business will give you the most freedom to go where you like.

Steve Gillman is the author of 101 Weird Ways to Make Money and creator of EveryWayToMakeMoney.com.

(Can you sense my millennial sarcasm there?)

You know which ones were talking about: rent, utilities, cell phone bill, insurance, groceries…