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Peter Knize & John Sullivan

RVgeeks

Unsure of Your Vision or Talent? Become an Entrepreneur Anyway!

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Heather Ryan

Tax Queen

Tax Considerations
for RV Life

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Camille Attell

Remote Work School

Remote Work Options for RVers in a Post-Pandemic World

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Mark Nemeth

Escapees RV Club

RV Gadget Box – Gadget Hacks That Make Your RV Life Easier

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Lezlie Garr

Resume Lezlie

How to Land Remote Work as a Full-Time RVer

Half Homemade: ‘Cheater’ Recipes for RVers, Tiny Kitchen Cooks, and Busy Meal-Makers

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Jason & Lisa Reich

Planning for Alaska – What you Need to Know

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Joann & Charlie Kavanagh

Kavanagh’s Adventures

Planning for Alaska – What you Need to Know

Traveling to Mexico with an RV: A Beginners Guide

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Daniel Heming

RV Solar Consulting

Getting Started with Solar

Starlink Internet – What is it and how does it work?

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Robert Barclay & Julia Santos

HelanCX

Living on the road with no compromise – The Tiny House on Wheels alternative

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Jim Koca

Escapees RV Club

Escapees RVers Bootcamp Express

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Chris Willers

Irene Iron Fitness

Healthy RV Living: Food & Fitness Tips While Traveling

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Erik McCauley

Mobile Must Have

Internet Basics

Unbreakable Connectivity

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Andy Murphy

Mobile Must Have

Internet Basics

Unbreakable Connectivity

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Hollie Parks

Escapees RV Club

Future Convergences and How to Join in the Fun

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Travis & Melanie Carr

Escapees RV Club

Maximizing Your Escapees Benefits

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Paige Wood

RV Life

RV Trip Planning Made Easy

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Jill Sessa

Ultimate WP Help

For The Long Haul: Achieving Contentment in Life and Work While You Travel

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Sondi Cuddy

Traveling to Mexico with an RV: A Beginners Guide

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One of the greatest parts about education at Bash is that the majority of our seminars are put on by our very own community members. We have a wide range of topics and are always interested in adding new ones. If you have knowledge you’d like to share with fellow attendees, reach out today so we can see if it would be a good fit! 

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Peter Knize & John Sullivan

RVgeeks

Unsure of Your Vision or Talent? Become an Entrepreneur Anyway!

thervgeeks.com

Peter Knize & John Sullivan, better known as The RVgeeks, have been RVing full-time for nearly two decades.

After their first couple of years on the road, they decided to continue RVing indefinitely, so they needed to earn a nomadic living. They pooled their combined skills to create RVgeeks Website Design, catering exclusively to RV parks.

In 2011, John & Peter started making How-To videos for friends who’d just bought their first RV, inadvertently creating one of YouTube’s most popular channels about RVing, which they followed up with a blog — TheRVgeeks.com — to augment their video content.

With over 200,000 subscribers, the success of the RVgeeks channel and blog led to another opportunity in 2018: broadcast television! They signed on as co-hosts and co-executive producers of a documentary-style TV show, The RVers, which is currently filming its 4th Season for The Discovery Channel and PBS.

Peter & John have appeared in just about every type of RVing venue, including RV shows, rallies, magazines, podcasts, and other popular RVing blogs. They’re making their third speaking appearance at the annual Xscapers BASH in January 2022.

Heather Ryan

Tax Queen

Tax Considerations
for RV Life

tax-queen.com

Heather is the owner of Tax Queen, a tax firm supporting RV entrepreneurs and digital nomads. As a federally licensed Enrolled Agent, she supports her clients year-round with tax preparation, tax planning, and bookkeeping.

She also educates digital nomads and entrepreneurs through her blog posts, a book (Taxes for RV Owners), and a course, Finances for the RV Entrepreneur. She currently splits her time between a home base in Montrose, CO, and traveling after RVing full-time for almost 5 years.

While travel is a passion, you might also find her sampling local beer and wine as she travels with her husband and two dogs.

Camille Attell

Remote Work School

Remote Work Options for RVers in a Post-Pandemic World

camilleattell.com

Camille, an Xscaper, since 2017 walked away from her long-time corporate training job, her home, possession and community, to RV full-time in 2016. 

She and her husband Bryce learned how to reinvent themselves with remote work. They started their first website MoreThanAWheelin.com and tried over twelve different remote jobs. 

Camille went on to launch Remote Work School, where she has helped hundreds of people find the right remote work to live a flexible lifestyle.

Mark Nemeth

Escapees RV Club

RV Gadget Box – Gadget Hacks That Make Your RV Life Easier

marxrv.com

In 1997, Mark Nemeth quit his job, sold his house, bought an RV, and joined Escapees. He has contributed to Escapees magazine and served as a technical advisor for 19 years. 

He still maintains an RVer’s resource website with technical articles, tips, and information at www.marxrv.com.

Lezlie Garr

Resume Lezlie

How to Land Remote Work as a Full-Time RVer

Half Homemade: ‘Cheater’ Recipes for RVers, Tiny Kitchen Cooks, and Busy Meal-Makers

ResumeLezlie.com

Lezlie is a Master Resume Writer and Career Transition Coach who helps values-driven professionals shift out of soul-sucking jobs and into meaningful work that aligns with their principles.

She works with top-performers and high-achievers who are truly dedicated to improving the people and operations around them.

Her goal is to empower job seekers with the clarity and confidence they need to skyrocket their job search and boldly step into the next chapter of their careers.

Jason & Lisa Reich

Planning for Alaska – What you Need to Know

Jason and Lisa Reich have been traveling full time in their Class A RV for six years, covering much of the US and Canada so far. They both grew up in Vancouver Canada and lived in San Diego for 16 years before hitting the road.

Jason is a software developer working on the road, and Lisa is a retired travel agent. Both enjoy national parks, hiking, visiting small towns, and searching for great beer and ice cream.

Joann & Charlie Kavanagh

Kavanagh’s Adventures

Planning for Alaska – What you Need to Know

Charlie and I began our RV’ing life by traveling with our kids during our summer vacations. As school teachers, we had 8 weeks to cram in all the fun we could out west and race back to New York and the grind of our fulltime jobs. We promised ourselves that one day we would do this full time.

After our second retirement, we sold the house and belongings and set out for our fulltime adventure. Partime RV’ing and fulltime are two different things and within our first week, we stumbled into Dome Rock in Quartzite for what would be the first of many fun and informative experiences with the most caring and inclusive group of people.

We learned so much from our Xscaper family and are happy to pass along any help we can to those just starting or someone looking for a new boon-docking spot. This January 2021 marks the beginning of our 6th year “On the Road” as full-timers and we can’t imagine stopping anytime soon.

Daniel Heming

RV Solar Consulting

Getting Started with Solar

Starlink Internet – What is it and how does it work?

rvsolarconsulting.com

My wife and I started our full-time RV’ing adventure in Aug 2017. Prior to RV’ing, we had traveled all over the US by motorcycles on a week or two vacation once or twice a year, but we were hooked on traveling and wanted to do it full time, yet we still needed to work. I had already been working remotely so it was an easy transition to the full-time RV lifestyle.

The solar on our first rig was a pretty modest system with 800w of solar on the roof, a 200w ground deploy, a 2k Watt Go power inverter, and 6 6v lead-acid batteries. We even managed to run a residential fridge off this setup after our RV fridge died. Our current RV system is 3015W of solar (9 335W residential panels) on the roof, dual Victron 24v/3000W inverters, and 8 lithium batteries. I designed it to be capable of running a 15kw rooftop A/C all day and still charge fully in the summer. It’s an amazing system.

Robert Barclay & Julia Santos

HelanCX

Living on the road with no compromise – The Tiny House on Wheels alternative

HelanCX.com

After our children moved out of the house, we decided we needed a smaller more flexible footprint. We wanted to live and travel full time on the road. 

Both corporate professionals, we had done some small projects around the house. We brainstormed what we would really want, looked at the options, and then sat down to design our own tiny house on wheels. From 5,000 sq ft to under 300. After we took a class on how to build one, we know we could do it and the rest is history. 

We learned so much in the building process as well as from now living and traveling in it for a year and a half.

Jim Koca

Escapees RV Club

Escapees RVers Bootcamp Express

escapees.com/education/

Jim is a retired police officer and police academy director with over 40 years of service. He is currently a reserve deputy for Reagan County Texas.

During his career, he specialized in collision reconstruction. This involved investigating the causes and consequences of vehicle collisions. Collision reconstruction has given him a unique perspective on vehicle safety, enabling him to train officers across the country.

He also shares this information with RVers through numerous columns and programs. These include RVers’ Boot Camp and RVers Online University, both of which are operated by Escapees RV Club. Jim is also a WeighMaster with Escapees’ SmartWeigh program.

Chris Willers

Irene Iron Fitness

Healthy RV Living: Food & Fitness Tips While Traveling

ireneironfitness.com

We are Chris and Aaron, a married couple who have been traveling the country while running our online fitness and nutrition coaching business since January 2019.

Prior, we both worked corporate careers in management, sales, and operations in Minneapolis, MN until we realized our passions were elsewhere. These were spending time with each other, the love of food, maintaining a healthy lifestyle with fitness, and traveling this amazing country. 

We look forward to adventurous bursts of overlanding, balanced with the comforts of our RV back at basecamp. Chris is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach working online with clients all across the country. 

Whereas Aaron is on the tech side creating/maintaining the website (Irene Iron Fitness), as well as doing all of the YouTube video productions. About 6 months into our travels we started a YouTube channel (Irene Iron Travels) to share our lifestyle and experiences with others just as we had been inspired a few years before. The channel is a reality-style showing the day-to-day mobile living as well as our travels around the country.

Erik McCauley

Mobile Must Have

Internet Basics

Unbreakable Connectivity

MobileMustHave.com

Erik is a 6+ year full-time RV’r with over 20 years of IT experience. Erik started his career in technology over 20 years ago helping some of the largest and most well-respected companies navigate the changing landscapes of technology in the digital age.

As a successful entrepreneur, Erik has founded multiple technology companies including Axiom Technology Group and most recently MobileMustHave.com where he focuses on providing rock-solid, reliable internet connectivity solutions to mobile enthusiasts.

When not working from the road, Erik likes to spend his days with his wife Kala and son Bradley blogging about their travels at Livinlite.net.

Andy Murphy

Mobile Must Have

Internet Basics

Unbreakable Connectivity

WhereWildOnesRoam.com

Andy is a 4+ year full-time RVer with over 10 years of software and IT experience. Andy started his career in software creating enterprise web- and mobile-based applications and has been traveling full-time since 2018. 

In 2019, Andy teamed up with MobileMustHave lending his expertise to the mobile community helping thousands of RVers with “plain english” technology information as a lead contributor to MobileMustHave’s online community.

When not working, Andy is traveling around the country with his family and recording their travels on their blog WhereWildOnesRoam.com

Hollie Parks

Escapees RV Club

Future Convergences and How to Join in the Fun

xscapers.com

Hollie hails from Northern Michigan and is a US Navy Veteran. In 2017, after suffering the loss of some close friends, Hollie and her husband Aaron decided life was too short to wait until retirement to fulfill their dreams of RVing around the country. They sold their belongings and bought their first RV in May of 2017 and were on the road, fulltime by September. Shortly after beginning their journey, Hollie discovered the Xscapers. It took one convergence and she was hooked for life!

As the new Convergence Director, Hollie hopes to keep the party going with new and exciting locations and events. She wants to continue to build the community and ensure that we create space for both OG Xscapers and newcomers, alike!

Travis & Melanie Carr

Escapees RV Club

Maximizing Your Escapees Benefits

Escapees.com

Travis is the grandson of the Escapees Founders Joe and Kay and no stranger to the RV lifestyle or the club. Melanie was introduced to the lifestyle at a young age through family vacations and has always had a passion for travel.

In 2015, Travis and Melanie founded a group within Escapees called Xscapers to better cater to the working-aged RVer. They now represent the third generation of family leadership as the President and Vice President of Escapees RV Club.

Paige Wood

RV Life

RV Trip Planning Made Easy

rvlife.com

As a child, Paige Wood had a rather unusual dream—to become a full-time RVer. She was so clear on this desire that she broke up with her elementary-school boyfriend when she discovered that he didn’t share her vision of a life on the road!

Paige’s fondest desire came true in 2019 when she became an Xscaper and a full-timer with her husband and two cats. She loves the freedom and adventure of their life on the road and her passion for RVing is fueled by her work as a Product Owner for RV LIFE.

Jill Sessa

Ultimate WP Help

For The Long Haul: Achieving Contentment in Life and Work While You Travel

ultimatewphelp.com

Jill has been traveling full-time for over 10 years, with vehicles ranging from a bicycle, Vespa, vintage RVs, sidecar motorcycle, a Sprinter, and plenty of flights and ferries. Check out her new rig at the event.

Sondi Cuddy

Traveling to Mexico with an RV: A Beginners Guide

After selling our sticks and bricks, Louise (my 4 legged companion) and I hit the road full time in January 2018. We headed straight to Quartzsite to meet Xscapers.

Four years later we are still hanging and traveling with Xscapers and haven’t missed a Convergence since.

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