Introducing our little Casita Holly

First of all, let me introduce ourselves. We are high school sweethearts who met at church. We have been blessed with a good life, a precious son and daughter who have amazing spouses and 5 of the cutest and sweetest grand kids ever. We are self employed. We live in Texas. We are in our late 50's and we have always loved camping and being outdoors, but now that we have our family raised, we are ready to see the good old USA! We share a love for God, His amazing creation, fly fishing, cooking (especially when it involves a dutch oven) and traveling together.

We have wanted a trailer of our own for a very long time. We have shared a trailer with our kids and that was great but we wanted a trailer to fix up with our own things, that would be available and ready to go on a minute's notice! So, we have looked, dreamed, searched, dreamed some more and looked some more. Then Friday, December 12th as we were headed to bed, Larry decided to look on Craig's List one more time. SCORE! A 2004 Casita Freedom Deluxe had posted hours before and it looked great from the pictures and description. We wrote an email before going to bed to see if the owner still had it. It was too late to call! The next morning (after dreaming about trailers) we had no emails back. So, we waited till a respectful hour and Larry called the owners. They were a precious couple and agreed to save it till we could come on Monday to look at it. It was in the Austin area, so Monday we drove there...trying hard not to dream about it but dreaming about it all the entire trip!

After a wonderful visit with the sellers and looking the Casita over...we paid them and did what we have dreamed about for awhile...we looked in our rear view mirrors and saw a cute little Casita following us home. Her name is Holly. We got her 10 days before Christmas and the owner's name was Hollie. Seemed perfect!

This blog will serve as our travel journal. We have a long bucket list of places we want to see. First thing, even though the trailer was clean and in great shape (it's first owners took great care of it) we wanted to make a few changes. Larry is very talented and we knew right away we would need to utilize every single inch (or centimeter) and make the very most of our space! So we looked over it and tried to fit it a few little nooks & shelves to better suit our needs. We can hardly wait to go camping but we have spent our first week as owners planning, scheming and settling into this little home away from home.