Jake Hoster

A vehicle resident since 2018, Jake became a nomad after a 20+ year IT career. He has found success and happiness as a nomad by “workamping” at various seasonal jobs around the United States including a Sugar Beet Harvest, holiday seasonal warehouse work, camp hosting in a National Forest, and working remotely as a web developer.

Jake has volunteered for the annual Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) in Quartzsite since 2019 and continues to volunteer for the Homes on Wheels Alliance (HOWA). “The RTR and workamping experiences have shown me that vehicle residents can survive and thrive. I’ve seen many advance from needing support to thriving and helping others!”

Jake is on a mission to educate all vehicle residents, campers, and visitors on how we can keep our public lands open for all of us to enjoy, thus preventing closures of public lands and the end of overnight privileges in parks, streets, and parking lots. To that end, it’s not uncommon to find Jake and his volunteer friends cleaning up trash piles on public lands.