How Bryce & Camille Left Corporate for Full-Time RV Life: Inspiration & Lessons Learned

How Bryce & Camille Left Corporate for Full-Time RV Life: Inspiration & Lessons Learned

Two years ago, Bryce and Camille were “cubicle dwellers” in suburban California — a term they use themselves, half-joking, to describe a life neither of them had ever really questioned. Bryce had spent almost 20 years at the same company; Camille, almost 11. They met there. Today, on this episode of First Class Nomadic Entrepreneurs, they joined the show from Wellington, Texas, closing in on their two-year “nomad-iversary” of full-time RV life.

The shift didn’t start with a dream board. It started, they said, with a series of housing and health issues that made them stop and ask a hard question: were they actually living life to the fullest? That question led them, in August 2016, out of Orange County and onto the road.

Telling their families wasn’t simple. Reactions were mixed — some people understood immediately, others tried to talk Camille out of walking away from her career. To make the leap feel smaller, they told their parents (and, they admit, half-convinced themselves) that they’d try it for a year and see how it went. Camille’s parents, who lived just ten minutes away, felt the change the most. When the one-year mark came and went, the couple never actually announced they were staying — they just kept going, and everyone eventually caught on.

Their home is a Tiffin Allegro Open Road, a Class A motorhome they bought straight from the factory in Alabama in May 2016, with about 2,000 miles already on it. They tow an SUV behind it. Bryce joked that the rig is technically 34 feet long, though they’ve been known to tell campgrounds it’s 32 to squeeze into tighter spots. Looking back, their advice for anyone shopping for an RV is less about horsepower and paint color and more about livability: interior layout matters enormously when the vehicle is also your house, and things you might dismiss as gimmicks — a fireplace, a bedroom ceiling fan — turn out to matter a lot on a cold night or a hot afternoon. Their biggest practical lesson: make sure you can reach the bathroom and the refrigerator without having to put out the slides first.

Road life hasn’t been without its mishaps. Bryce recounted a sewer-hose disaster mid-dump that ended in a scream Camille mistook for a horror movie, and a second incident where the hose popped loose just as Camille’s parents pulled up to visit, splashing him at the worst possible moment.

Funding the lifestyle meant giving up a steady paycheck and leaning on savings while they built something new. Neither had run a business before. They started a blog, which they’ve since monetized; Bryce, drawing on a financial background, began trading options; and Camille built an online course, teaming up with other creators to develop products together. Camille was careful to note that this path isn’t only for people willing to become entrepreneurs — remote work is growing, companies are creating more remote roles to compete for talent, and part of her work now involves helping people make the case to their own employer to let an existing job go remote.

Asked for advice for anyone considering the leap, their answer came down to one idea: feel the fear and do it anyway. Bryce offered an acronym for FEAR — face everything and rise — as the version he prefers over the more commonly known “false evidence appearing real.” As Camille put it, the comfort zone feels safe, but the magic — the people who align with you, who inspire and motivate you — happens outside it.

When asked what they want to be remembered for, Camille talked about helping people move past what holds them back, especially around talent and skills, and helping them see their own worth. Bryce, who noted that he and Camille don’t have children, said he thinks a lot about legacy in terms of the environment — he described picking up other people’s trash on hikes and trying to educate people along the way.

The couple mentioned they also appear in a Nomad-life documentary film, which is part of why they were able to record this conversation in person rather than remotely. They pointed listeners toward their blog and social channels for free resources, including an email series on finding remote work and a list of remote-work websites, for anyone dreaming about doing the same thing.