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Making a living online

Paying for the road without staying still

People assume vanlife is one long holiday, but the diesel, the insurance and the ferries all want feeding, and this is where we learned to earn remotely. Living as French expats in Portugal taught us to build income that travels with us instead of tying us to one desk.

Passive income and small stacked streams

The dream is money that arrives while you sleep in a mountain layby, and honestly the first trickle is what changed how we planned. We gathered the approaches that actually worked for us in passive income in vanlife with ten ideas, from affiliate links to renting out gear between trips.

Crypto and mining as a side stream

Crypto came into our mix slowly, and we wanted something we could run without a garage full of noisy rigs, so we tested a gentler route. Start with the fundamentals in our beginner guide to mining Bitcoin, then see how we mine without owning any hardware through Gomining.

Remote jobs and renting the van

Not every euro has to be passive, and some of our steadiest income has come from proper paid remote work. We rounded up the roles that suit life on the move in digital nomad jobs you can do while travelling, and when we park up longer we cover costs by renting our van and RV for income.

Actually working from a campervan

The romantic bit fades the day your only meeting room is beside the chemical toilet, and that reality shaped how we set up. We share the honest logistics of connectivity, focus and routine in how to work in vanlife so you can copy what works and skip our mistakes.