Originally Posted by
Rowan
You know, I have done what tandempower has suggested. Use my bike to ride the freeways (country roads, actually) between jobs that were several hundred miles apart. It was on the Harvest Trail, and I picked up enough work to live on, but it got marginal there sometimes. I lived in a tent to keep the costs contained.
The big exception is that you did not do what tandempower has suggested is the key feature of making his plan seem attractive to bicyclists, or people who might choose to become bicycling migrant workers - i.e., use an exclusive
car free bike trail/MUP/Turnpike for your long distance bicycle travel between job locations.
The other big exception is (correct me if I am wrong) that you were the exception among the backpack workers in using a bicycle for transportation between numerous job sites separated by long distances. IMO it is HIGHLY doubtful that many other exceptions like yourself could be found anywhere to make the OP's bicycling/employment travel scheme even remotely feasible.