TOP: Katie Deits sits at a campsite next to her Airstream travel trailer. COURTESY OF KATIE DEITS
IN 2015, ELISE HAUENSTEIN WAS ON AN RV getaway 15 miles from her home in Ohio. She was sitting outside and relaxing when her husband, Rick, turned to her. “He asked me, ‘What do you miss from home, being down here?’ I said, ‘Nothing — maybe mittens, if it gets cool — but besides that, I don’t miss anything.’ So, we decided that’s it — we’re done.” They returned determined to sell their house so they could travel the country. They lived full time in a fifth-wheel trailer for several years, until they settled back down to become the co-managers of Creekside RV Resort in Punta Gorda, trading their RV for a house.
“It was a 41-foot Crossroads with five slides, so it was a big boy, and there was a lot of room and storage space,” Ms. Hauenstein said. “Our kids…
