People ask us all the time how we run businesses from an RV. The question usually comes with a tone of disbelief -- like they are waiting for us to admit it is a side hustle or a content play or some kind of elaborate tax situation.
It is not. We run four actual businesses from a Grand Design Momentum fifth wheel parked in Cottonwood, Arizona. Some of those businesses are fully digital. Some require a physical shop. All of them are real.
Here is exactly how it works.
The four businesses
The honest numbers
Those numbers are real. Josh's 80 hours spans mobile repair in the field, running the physical shop in Cottonwood, warranty submissions, client communications, and the digital infrastructure behind RVTS and RV Journey Genie. There is no such thing as a slow week when you are the mechanic, the business owner, and the tech lead all at once.
Bridget's range -- 30 to 80 -- depends on what is firing that week. A quiet week is 30 hours of deep client work on SEM accounts. A launch week hits 80 and does not apologize for it.
How the digital side actually works
Everything digital runs on Starlink. That is the non-negotiable. Before Starlink, running a marketing agency or an AI platform from a fifth wheel in the Arizona high desert would have been a different conversation. Now it is just Tuesday.
From inside the rig, we handle everything that does not require physical presence: client calls, warranty submissions, website management, content production, platform development for RV Journey Genie, email marketing, social -- the full stack. The connection is reliable enough for video calls, file uploads, and real-time collaboration. We have never missed a client meeting because of internet.
The shop -- because not everything is digital
Here is the part most people do not expect: we have a physical shop in Cottonwood.
RV Tank Specialist is not just a mobile operation -- it needs parts, inventory, and a workspace for hands-on jobs. And Copper Canyon Laser Designs requires actual equipment. A laser cutter does not fit in a fifth wheel slide-out. So while the rig is home base and the digital hub, the shop is where the physical work happens.
It is a hybrid model that most "run your business from an RV" content skips entirely. The truth is that some businesses need a physical footprint even if you live on wheels. We built ours around that reality instead of pretending it does not exist.
