about me
The Beginning
Hi! I’m SuzieQ, I’ve been camping since I was born. I grew up camping on Chincoteague Island practically every weekend. I know the island like the back of my hand. It’s still my favorite place to visit and will forever be in my soul!
The year I got married we were invited to go camping in Vermont with our good friends. This was not camper camping it was lean-to and tent camping. We did this every year for 20 years, first with one child than with more and more every year ending with 6 kids. We knew how to do this family camping thing!
At the end of that time, we were tired of sleeping on the ground, so my husband and I built a woody teardrop camper. The kids slept in tents. My favorite part was towing that teardrop! I will always tow a trailer!
venture after Venture
After building that first trailer from scratch I couldn’t get enough of the trailer thing. I would find trailers to renovate and ended up renovating 10 of them to date.
I bought a $100 popup from a friend of a friend who wanted it out of her yard and that ended up being my daughter’s senior project. We did it together. It’s the cutest popup, all decorated with a Boho theme. I made a trailer lover out of my daughter and she’s still loving it! !
I’ve also renovated a Go-Tag-Along, 2 Trillium fiberglass trailers, A Fleeetwing Chickadee, a Scotty and I’m sure I’m missing one or two. more.
I now just have three trailers to finish, A Sprite 400, a ‘65 Airstream, and a Boler. Some of which may be for sale in their current condition. IDK, depends on where my life heads.
One more trailer I have is my finished ‘62 Airstream Overlander which is my baby and what I do most of my camping in for now. Her name is Moonshadow. See pics of her below.
A New Challenge
In 2019 my husband of 32 years was diagnosed with GBM brain cancer. He held on for three and a half years before passing in July of 2022. Those were some really hard years for me as we knew it was terminal. I took those years to really analyze our life and decide what I was going to do to support my family after he left us.
In 2020 I knew I would eventually be going back to school for something. We were a one-income family. My job was to raise the kids and homeschool them all the way through. I wouldn’t have done it any other way. They turned out to be amazing adults!
I decided I would be an RV Tech, since I’ve been working in the industry for about 12 years and I love it so much. I went to school at NRVTA in Athens TX and got my RV Tech certification.
So here I am, an RV Tech, thriving to learn more, do more and achieve more than I ever imagined I could! I am loving my new life!
