A Brief History

This story begins back in 1983 when a young GI (Steve) and a beautiful young Fraulein (Andrea) met in the small village of Neubrucke in West Germany.  They fell in love, got married and the journey began.  They moved across the ocean 3 times, so adventures involving relocating are not new.  They settled down for quite awhile in Parker, Colorado in the USA and eventually moved to Colorado Springs at the base of America's Mountain, Pikes Peak.

During this time, Steve's parents left the stick and brick lifestyle and became gypsies, traveling around in the RV.  While Steve and Andrea loved hearing about their travels they never dreamed of hitting the road themselves.  In the early 20-teens, and limited funds, they bought a small 1983 Viking Lil' Gasser pop up camper.  After a good bit of refurbishing and remodeling it was road worthy and camping off of the ground ensued. 

After a couple of years of cranking it up and down and the fear of taking a canvas sided trailer to Yellowstone, we found a used 1978 Fleetwing 14' travel trailer.  The price was right, still on a limited budget, we new it had seen some wear and tear and a little water damage so we handed over the dead presidents, hooked it up and headed home.  Well the water damage ended up being a whole heck of a lot more than ever anticipated and the wear and tear of sitting in the hot sun in Pueblo Colorado did its damage as well; but it was paid for!  We tore out walls, replaced the rotted and moldy framing, patched the leaks, removed a very large honey comb from inside the back wall (the bees had long since gone) and started fixing her up.

She was finally ready to hit the road, at least on the inside, so we head off on many camping adventures.  We've made improvements to her along the way and the inside looks great and is very comfortable for the two of us.  We still have some more tweaks to the inside and we're currently working on some of the outside things that we would like to improve and need to fix.  When we hooked up to head out on our first trip of the year in 2019, we discovered we had electrical problems with our tail lights.  We've enjoyed remodeling and rebuilding her (for the most part!) and taking her on the road.

Some of our biggest trips so far have been to the Black Hills of South Dakota to see Mt. Rushmore, Antonito, Colorado to ride the Tultec and Cumbres Railroad, South Fork, Colorado to visit the place in Lake City where Alferd Packer had his friends for dinner, and Chadron, Nebraska to visit family.

During these travels and many other campsites in Colorado, we were bitten by the RV'ing bug and have begun our journey to hit the road full time.  We are considered dreamers right now but are working our way to the freedom of the road and exploring like Zeb Pike did many years ago.