How a couple living in an RV making around $81,000 spend their money Karen, 32, and Sylvester Akpan, 41, travel across the country in their RV, earning around $81,000 a year as content creators for brands like Camping World. They also earn income from Karen''s blog, The Mom Trotter, and document their lives on the road with their son Aiden, 8, across several social media channels. This is an installment of CNBC Make It''s Millennial Money series, which profiles people across the globe and details how they earn, spend and save their money.