Bill and Cheryl Conrod, F489157
Home: Grand Junction, Colorado.
Occupations: Retired from federal and education work.
RV: A 2008 17-foot Casita travel trailer.
RVing since: October 2008, but both of us have car/canoe camped and backpacked since the 1960s.
Why we bought our first RV: It was a 22-foot Forest River Wildwood, purchased upon retirement in 2005. We needed a residence for four months between homes. Why live in one place, we said. We wandered the Pacific Northwest and western Canada before settling on the Oregon coast.
Best RVing experience: Traveling from Colorado to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, catching fall foliage. Waking up to a fresh, gorgeous view out the window.
Hobbies: Painting/drawing, photography, hiking, visiting museums.
Nerdiest thing we do in our spare time: Beachcombing and rockhounding. We almost never buy souvenirs; rocks, shells, and driftwood bits are our treasure.
Most amusing encounter: At Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, a Belgian RVer declared with a smile that we were “un-American,” because our 17-foot travel trailer was so small, more like a European caravan. We replied we had traded in our 22-foot trailer for it, because we thought it was too big. He just shook his head.
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