Category: Volunteer At A Florida State Park

Ichetucknee Springs Review

April 14, 2023August 13, 2023 Jolene MacFadden

Ichetucknee State Park is a beautiful place to spend the day. It is a smaller park by comparison to some of the others and the only real attraction is the tubing down the Ichetucknee River. For our first adventure in the RV we decided to take the entire family tubing for the weekend. There are a few places to camp in the area and the one we came across first was a private campground called (funny enough) Ichetucknee Campground which is about a mile from the State Park’s North entrance. They only allow a limited number of people in the park each day and if you do not get there first thing in the morning you may not be allowed to come in at all. The fee is pretty steep at $5 per person. They have everyone come into a special entrance in the morning, let out all the passengers, drive to the South Entrance and park. They have shuttles to return you to the tubing area. You can picnik, walk the nature trails or just enjoy the peace and quiet.

Park Info, Volunteer At A Florida State Park

Workamping With Kids – Possible or Problematic

August 17, 2022July 24, 2023 Jolene MacFadden

Here is a current topic that we haven’t addressed here before. Workamping with your kids, do you think that is possible in Florida or more problematic. I mean I did workamp with my youngest for a number of years but she was 16 or 17 when we started traveling. There are more and more couples selling all their belongs, purchasing or building their own self-contained RV and hitting the road. It is a great chance for your children to see places they can only read about in text books. They can meet different people from different cultures and participate more hands-on in their learning experiences from history to all the natural sciences and most everything else between.

Holiday Travel and Seasons Greetings

December 12, 2021December 12, 2021 Jolene MacFadden

Traveling during the holiday season has always been a norm for most of us around the world. Whether we wish to spend time with our friends and family at home or we wish to get away from all the hustle and bustle and enjoy some peace and quiet somewhere. A trip to go skiing or snuggle down with a good book next to a roaring fire in the mountains would be sweet. We hope that wherever you roam you travel safely and arrive at your destination in good health. For those coming to Florida for the Winter – Welcome, keep your social distance still, but volunteer when and where you can. Our parks and public land areas are open and could use some great workampers.

Holidays in the Parks, Volunteer At A Florida State Park, Volunteer at National Parks and Forest, Volunteer in Florida State Forests

Update on Books and New Places to Review

September 18, 2021September 26, 2021 Jolene MacFadden

We have a sort of update on the books we want to write and the new places we want to visit to write reviews. The state parks in Florida have some of the best places to workcamp. They have a solid program in place and very gracious and hardworking Volunteer Coordinators. With all the weird news and people taking pictures where they shouldn’t there have been problems. Some of that is false impressions by amateurs on social media. Some are even the people making a big mess when they come through the parks. Mostly, not being respectful of the environment and its residents. We have re-visited a couple of the parks closest to where we are currently living and working to get updated videos and pictures. We tried interviewing some of the workampers and park personnel but no go there. The last few places stated that we have to have permission from Tallahassee to move forward with our project.

Publishing Journey, Volunteer At A Florida State Park, Workamping, Working While RVing

Happy Labor Day Workampers

September 1, 2021May 23, 2022 Jolene MacFadden

Happy Labor Day Weekend Workampers! We hope you are keeping yourself safe but having a good time wherever you may be working at this time of year. We have created a little short video and uploaded it to our YouTube Channel. I don’t know about you but I am still trying to figure out all these new rules and ways of doing things to get more subscribers, more views, and more comments. This is supposed to go into the YouTube Shorts Section. We will see how that pans out. And we just noticed that we are up to 67 subscribers to this channel!!!

Got a New Cover and some Additional Pages added to the kid’s activity workbook

Revisit Our Florida Workamping Book

April 19, 2021 Jolene MacFadden

We want to revisit our Florida Workamping book this post. The “Insiders Guide to Campground Hosting in Florida Parks“, is still a valid resource for anyone who wants to volunteer in our beautiful Florida public land areas. My mom and I really enjoyed our times at every one of our assignments. They all had their good and bad parts but all in all we enjoyed ourselves, got some stuff done for the rangers, and even learned a thing or two while we were there. We are not big hikers, kayakers or even environmentalist but we do enjoy the history and the quiet at most of the places were worked. We cannot stress how important it is to each of these public land areas that they have dependable, reliable, and hard-working volunteers. You DO NOT have to be handy with tools or equipment but a willingness to learn goes a long way with most of them.