WHO ARE WE?
We are Jennifer and Patrick, 40-something year olds enjoying this chapter of our lives. Kids have graduated college and started their adult lives, so we are enjoying our life. Not saying life was bad when they were home, we were blessed with great kids. We are just weekend campers right now, maybe one day in the future we will do this full time, but for now we are happy getting out on the weekends.
WHAT WE DO?
Patrick works in the oil and gas industry and I run a play dough kit business out of our home, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook justplay_dough.
WHEN DID WE START RVING?
We purchased our first travel trailer in February 2018, we had been talking about buying an RV a few months earlier but talked about doing it after our son graduated college. We went on a day date to the boat and rv show and a sales guy mentioned that college kids were living in them instead of dorms/apartments. That got us talking, we could buy now let our son live in it for a couple years instead of the dorms, better to put money into something we would keep.
A month later we went on another day date, this time to the RV show, found an awesome deal on the exact layout we were looking for. We put a deposit down and a few weeks later came home with a 2018 Forest River Salem 27DBK. Now we have already traded in that rig and purchased a new one, look for the blog post on it coming soon.
WHERE WE LIVE
We live in the great state of Texas, we were both born here and have never lived anywhere else. You will find out through this blog that we do love our state and really don’t see us living anywhere else permanently.
We live in a small town east of Houston, we’re in a good location, 45 minutes from Houston, an hour from Galveston/Crystal Beach, an hour from Lake Livingston.
WHY THE RV LIFE?
Honestly no clue, I started watching a couple families on YouTube and thought it looked like fun. Neither of us had ever even stayed in any type of RV, we had tent camped as kids but had no desire to do that again, Texas weather is hot and we like air conditioning.
We love RVing and get out as much as we can, would like to camp more but life here at home keeps us busy. We know in time it will slow down and we will get out more and start exploring more.
Come and join us on Instagram, look for our Who, What, When, Where and Why post and share yours with us.
-Jennifer & Patrick