When I first met Sheri, she was a little hesitant on our first or second date to tell me where she lived. A big part of that is because she lived in a little RV. It was a fairly good sized 2008 Puma 29FKSS Travel Trailer.
I, however, lived in an apartment, mostly because I had recently went through a divorce and in my world, you either lived in a house or an apartment and after divorces, apartments are the landing zone of choice.
You could think of me as the “typical close-minded middle American mindset”. I knew about trailer houses, sometimes called single-wides, but I simply was not interested in that type of living for a number of reasons. So it was apartment or house.
But Sheri opened my mind to something different. An RV was something different entirely. RV’s were luxury goods (by many standards) that you buy along with your boat. RV’s were SMALL. Unlike trailer homes, RV’s weren’t low income affairs trying to grab as much square feet as possible – no RV’s represented something completely different. RV’s are inherently mobile – constructed for durability while trailer homes represented fixed location (no different than houses or apartments).
Sheri’s RV represented something completely new : Living small by choice. It made me ask questions. It made US question how much we needed. RV’s make you completely re-examine place and permanence.
Sheri and I married in 2009 and within a short amount of time, she talked me into trying the Puma RV. It was too small for a family, but for the two of us, it was a great experience.
I was hooked. And I knew in 2009 that I had a blog topic that I could write about, pretty much the rest of my life. I also wanted to write a blog because if I can’t make a successful (whatever that might be) blog, then I would have to question my existence in a world that openly accepts my MBA.
And so I write. I write about the RV, the parks, our mistakes, and our successes. Its more than a hobby. It is a lifestyle and a belief system (living small, free, economical, and more) and I can write about it a long time.
One oddity you may find is I do lots of these little videos. Both of parks and of RV’s. I like playing with the video and I think video speaks volumes where I might be at a loss for words.
I would love to hear from you as I journey and journal. Your suggestions and inputs are important to me.
Other :
- If you’d like to write a guest article about something RV related, I’d be thrilled to have interesting comment and I would be more than open to you having a link to back to your site.
- If you have a product you would like me to try, send it to me, or send me a free coupon and I’ll try it out. WARNING : Once I check it out and write about it, you must understand that I will write about it honestly.
- If you want me to video your rv park, write me.
- If you want me to video your RV, write me.
- If you want me to stay at your rv park and do an indepth writeup and/or an indepth video, perhaps even a marketing style video, write me.
- If you just want a little bit of help marketing your RV park, RV, RV accessory or whatever, please write me.
- If you want your rv park to be featured on my site, particularly in the “states” area, write me.
- In fact, anything at all RV related, why not write me? My email is marlanw _A_T_ rv52.com. Of course I had to mess the address up a little bit so it is a small challenge for the spam harvesters.
Thanks,
Marlan
DISCLOSURE : This blogs goal is to be honest and forthright in all we say or do. So we have no plans to push crappy products or parks, unless we don’t know they are bad and only find out later, like the RV mats from Walmart. All that being said, if we put links to products and you buy the products you should assume we will be compensated for it. A prime example is that we use Amazon affiliate links copiously. Just so you know, this is a required FCC disclosure.
