Embarking on Our RV Journey

Heather and Bill … and Polka … after driving our new-to-us SPREKKO home and backing it into our back driveway.

Hello RVers,

I wanted to say fellow  RVers, but technically we aren’t RVers quite yet. Until we take our new-to-us Winnebago Ekko 23b on its first trip, we’re still RV wannabes.

We can say hello to fellow campers. I, Heather, grew up camping with my parents in a trailer. I have early memories of listening to the old folks talk and laugh around the campfire after my bedtime and birdsong early in the morning, just before I woke up Mom and Dad. As young adults, we camped in tents. As parents, we camped in our Coleman popup trailer, which was big enough to accommodate family and friends at times. Most recently, we have made due with the back of our Ford Explorer.

And hello to our fellow nomads, hikers, adventurers, birders and nature lovers. We hope to see you out there.

I wanted to start this blog as we start this new adventure in our lives. “We” are Heather and Bill from New Mexico. We’re about a decade out from retirement, but old enough to know that the back of the Ford Explorer is not going to give us a good night’s sleep much longer. Plus, we no longer want to wake up in the middle of the night breathing in the out breaths of our lab mix, Polka. Yuck! She somehow always manages to oozle from her spot by our feet up to our pillows in the middle of the night while we sleep.

My hope is to write about our journeys, as a journal for us, our family and friends, and as a travelogue to remember where we’ve been and where we might want to visit again. And if others read this blog and discover beautiful or fun places with us or learn from our mishaps, all the better. 

Until next time,

Heather and Bill