ABOUT US

Full-timing meant working 50+ hours a week for us.  We occasionally would take a week and hike a section of the Appalachian Trail.  Easter Week 2004 we were hiking the between Fontana Dam and Wesser and thought, "If we had a camper we could extend our range.  A mobile base would allow us, once we retire, to avoid motel fees and we could work any number of new trails from an entirely new section of the country."

We studied the travel trailer market and shopped the internet and visited sales lots of RV dealers.  Quickly we realized a lot, if not most, of the trailers made and sold in our country are not of good quality.  A very few manufacturers make an attractive, durable, and high quality travel trailer.  We settled upon Airstreams, the silver bullets still made in America after 75 years.  We found the perfect Airstream trailer at our local dealer in Colfax, NC.

Long story short, July 2004 our Airstream arrived.  We traveled NC, VA, and SC some weekends.  We joined the Airstream owners association, Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI).  We met a lot of other camping people, some also in Airstream trailers or motorhomes.  Summer 2005 we visited Virginia Highland Haven Airstream Park in Copper Hill, VA. We invited our good friends, Jerry and Ann Hall along with their camper.  They fell in love with the park and asked questions of the members about how to join. We listened as the members explained the rules and rights of membership in the Highland Haven group.  Tom and Mary happened to mention they were full-timers, having sold their house 20 some odd years earlier to their daughter.  (They had started on a two month trip to explore America and just never came back home.  Their daughter, after two years housesitting, bought Tom's and Mary's house.)  

We were awestruck. We had neither heard nor imagined one could live in the camper and travel whenever wherever one wanted.  The idea came along at just the right time for us.  Work was challenging, demanding, and rewarding.  We both had good jobs we enjoyed and great co-workers and bosses.  And we were both ready for a big change.  Chasing 70 Degrees was something we thought we would enjoy, especially after summer 2007 temperatures in the Southeast.  We had worn worsted wool suits five and six days a week and thought 70 degrees would be the perfect temperature.  We failed to account for the insulation value of those clothes.  Shorts and tee-shirts, we found, feel best at 75 - 80 degrees, so we are Chasing 75 Degrees.

This website is a chronicle of our adventure, The Dreamstreamr Odyssey.  Most of the content is a journal of our travels.  We include pages on background information, specific adventures, photographs, and a little technical information.  We love hearing from you.  Let us know what you think about our adventure and our presentation.  And tell us if we left something out you'd like to hear about.

Feel free to write us at dreamstreamr@gmail.com