About Us

“RV there yet?” Anonymous

What seems like a lifetime ago, we lived and worked full time in Miami. In June 2018, we sold our home, retired and moved into a 33-ft fifth wheel. My name is Connie and my wife’s name is Vivian. It’s through our personal ambitions; mine – nature photography, Vivian – fishing, and our love of traveling and learning that we let go of our work life in the city and began living the RV dream.

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Most of the time, our home on wheels is parked on an RV lot on Chokoloskee Island, Florida. It is a home base surrounded by wilderness and with easy access to the water. Chokoloskee is a 150-acre island in the middle of the Ten Thousand Islands of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounded by Everglades National Park. It is located on the far side of the ‘bridge to nowhere‘ and it is exactly where we want to be when not traveling.

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Through photography and fishing, the Everglades is both a physical place and a way of life for us. Being avid canoe and kayak paddlers, our dream has always been to live on that island. The RV made that dream happen.

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The RV made another dream come true and that is to travel the United States while taking our time doing it. Since July of 2018, we have pulled the RV across the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ every year and each time have come back several months later bringing memories of our American tours.

We have towed our fifth wheel 50,000 since 2018, yet we have so much more to explore in this country and Canada. Which is why we decided in 2025 to make a big change. Our travel home is now a 17′ Casita Trailer. We have big plans for our tiny Casita, including Newfoundland and Labrador, Alaska, and a big loop that includes the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Island. The adventures will continue as long as Vivian and I are able and willing!

Enjoy this slideshow of highlights from our travels over the years.

  • Twillingate, NL
  • The Rio Grande, Big Bend NP, TX
  • Apostle Islands
  • Palouse Falls, Washington
  • Quebec City, CAN
  • A Florida state park
  • Mesa Arch, Canyonlands NP, Utah
  • Wisconsin State Capital Building, Madison
  • Crazy Horse Memorial, SD
  • White Sands National Park, NM
  • New Hampshire
  • St Marys River, MI
  • Northern Gannet colony, Bonaventure Island, QC
  • Selma, AL
  • John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, OR
  • Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park, CAN
  • Badlands National Park
  • A Florida state park
  • Quoddy Head State Park, ME
  • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
  • The Cabot Trail, Cape Breton
  • Saguaro National Park, AZ
  • The Mint Bar, Sheridan, WY
  • Athabasca Falls, Jasper NP
  • Vivian fishing in GA
  • Pheasants on the Prairie, Enchanted Highway, ND
  • Custer State Park, SD
  • Joshua Tree National Park, CA
  • Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park
  • Chaco Canyon, NM
  • Fort Sumter National Monument, SC
  • Capitol Reef NP, UT
  • Maligne Canyon, Jasper NP
  • Bighorn Mountains, WY
  • Yellowstone River
  • Famous Tootsies, Downtown Nashville
  • Badlands NP
  • The Icefields Parkway, AB
  • Butte, MT
  • House on Fire, UT
  • Amnicon Falls State Park, Wisconsin
  • Lower Yosemite Falls
  • One of O’Keeffe’s favorite locations to paint was a place she called “The Black Place”.
  • Badlands NP
  • Lafayette, LA
  • Puffin colony, Bonavista, NL
  • Sunwapta Falls, Jasper NP
  • Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
  • Gettysburg National Military Park
  • Buffalo National Scenic River, AK
  • Fogo Island, NL
  • Sequoia National Park, CA
  • Rabbit Hash, KY
  • Downtown Palm Springs, CA
  • Crater Lake National Park, OR
  • Skyline Trail, Cape Breton NP
  • Lincoln Presidential Library, IL
  • Arches NP, UT
  • Mt Edith Cavell, Jasper NP, CAN
  • The Gateway Arch NP, MO
  • Multnomah Falls, OR
  • Bonavista, NL
  • Morraine Lake, Banff NP
  • Bear Lake, RMNP
  • To see the Medicine Wheel requires a 3-mile round trip hike at an elevation of 9,640 ft.
  • Perce, QC

Through our blog entries, we hope you join us on our travels because we’ve had countless great experiences, some close calls, many unexpected good and bad events, and we’ve learned so much. Our changing view of the United States and Canada continues. Here are some of our stories over the years.

Jul 29, 2018: Putting Our Home in Motion

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” Roy T. Bennett On a steamy summer morning in south Florida deep into hurricane season, we connected…

Sep 9, 2019 – Breaking from Normal

This part of our trip began with great anticipation and much preparation building up to one thing, the White River in Bull Shoals Arkansas. But that all ended just as…

Jul 2, 2020 – Land of Stone and Light

Driving 200 miles through open space on a straight westerly path void of most anything except cattle herds and Wall Drug billboards was hypnotizing. Passing cattle field after cattle field,…

Sep 7, 2022 – The Third Coast

After 10 days near one of the world’s largest cement plant and limestone quarry on Lake Huron, going west to the Lake Michigan side was like traveling to another world.…

Jul 10, 2024 – The Cape

Fog over the Bay of Fundy adds to the beauty of it, whereas fog over Cape Breton completely devours it. That’s what we learned after arriving at the Cheticamp Campground…

Apr 13, 2025 – Meet our new Casita Trailer

Paralysis by analysis – that describes mine and Vivian’s experience for the past 18 months. We compounded our inability to make a decision by information accumulation and meticulous weighing of…