Our Story

We were basically neighbors growing up with a 7 year age difference so we were never on each other’s radar until later in life. I love our story because we are small town kids that fell in love. Our families went to the same small church and were good friends. We actually questioned whether or not we should date because of how close our families are.

We dated for a year a half, got engaged and had a beautiful wedding October 1, 1999. It was the best day. Since our families were friends everybody knew everybody. It was truly a perfect day!

Six months after we got married we went to Colorado and camped in the Rocky Mountains. We set up a tent and toured around in a Jeep Cherokee. After that trip, we would go camping whenever we could. We went on four wheeling trips and camped on Drummond Island. We bought our first truck camper in 2001. It was a huge heavy ugly thing that made us fall in love with truck campers. We got rid of it after a year but still knew that was the way we wanted to go. Craig found Four Wheel truck Campers years later and we purchased a base model in 2007.

We were so excited to have our first camper. I was looking forward to not sleeping in a tent. Looking back, we wouldn’t have purchased it had we known then what we know now. We eventually discovered that we hate debt. Like really hate debt. We were a typical couple with credit cards and car payments and really had no business buying a brand new camper. We decided together we wanted to be debt free and we worked really hard at it. Our goal was to pay off our house by the time I was 40. We missed that by a few months but were super happy February 2017, that we were finally debt free and the world is ours.

One thing that has helped us stay on the same page and continue to strive to meet our goals together is that we enjoy talking to each other. We love having long talks in our garage and we take road trips without the radio on. We’ve done that a lot in the 21 years that we’ve been together. We never get sick of it. I believe taking the time to listen to each other has gotten us to where we are now.

We finally decided 2018 was our year. So here we are, planning for life on the road. We don’t know what is going to happen. And we think that’s okay. Stuff happens and it’s how you deal with it is all part of the journey. We’ll continue our talks but we’ll have them in many different places while traveling many different roads.

So stay tuned…hopefully we entertain you, show you some beautiful sights and inspire you to step out of your comfort zone a little.