RV Background

New to the RV Travel Blogger Family: Jim and Marilyn Twamley

My wife and I have been camping and RVing since we were married. Our first RV was a VW van that we owned when I was stationed with the Army in Belgium. We had so much fun with this magic carpet that we still talk frequently about it. I took out the rear seats and built a platform for the bed and a galley in the rear, reachable when the back hatch was raised. We used an ice age cooler as our refridgerator and stowed our luggage under the platform bed. It was fitted with curtains and a foldable front windshield privacy screen. We toured 12 countries in Europe and we did nine of them with our VW RV. We did some tent camping and I did a lot of backpacking. Once the family began to grow we purchased a used Apache Pop-Up Tent Trailer. Pop-ups are a blast! They are light to tow and easy to set up. They are very spacious and are a great beginning RV for a family. Our next RV was a Komfort Travel Trailer. This was one of the “Komfort Light” models. The floor felt like you were walking on a trampoline, but we had a lot of great times in this trailer. Next we graduated to a 31 foot Wilderness 5th wheel by Fleetwood. This was a great starter 5er and we learned a lot about what we wanted and didn’t want from this unit. Our next and current “rig,” as we refer to them in Oregon, is a 34.5 HitchHiker II LS by NuWa.
I retired from the military with a colorful career. I started out in the Army as a medic stationed in Belgium. I got out of the Army and went to college and seminary then went into the Air Force through ROTC and became a Navigator flying KC-135s. After a few years of flying I was offered the opportunity to become a chaplain. I resigned my commission in the Air Force and joined the Navy as part of the Navy Chaplain Corps where I finished my military career. After retiring from the Navy we were pastors of a church in Klamath Falls Oregon.

My wife, Marilyn, and I have been full time RVing going on three years now. We love this lifestyle because it affords us the opportunity to travel and visit our many friends and family who are scattered all over the USA. We also enjoy the pure delight of traveling and seeing the world and RVing is the best and most economical way to do it! We have been avid readers of Chuck Woodbury’s outstanding work over the years and we look forward to being part of the RV TRAVEL team.