Marti and Jeff Calgary, Alberta (11) Share with your friends About Me After attending college for combined degrees of butterfly harvesting and basket weaving, with my wife educating herself in bumble bee husbandry and the ancient art of blood letting, we found that the real world had little need of our skills, so we needed to do something to earn money and pay for things like a house and personal hygene.



It seems that the only real ability that we both had, was a valid driver's license and a Canadian Passport. Surprisingly, there are want ads for "drivers" and "transportation specialists" in some of the magazines that you find on the news stands. It turns out, most of that is for people transporting large quantities of narcotics across national borders. On the plus side, the pay for this work is surprisingly lucrative, with the possibility that you might serve jail time in a Mexican prison, which I'm told is pretty ugly. So, with our first car and enough gas money to get us from Guadalajara, to Toronto, we set off on the first of many adventures. Camping along the way, we lived the caravan / hippie lifestyle, pitching our tent in whatever small stand of trees or bush that we could find along a secondary road, away from the prying eyes of "The Man". For 23 long years, we were the best "transport specialists" you've likely never heard of. We graduated from a small pup tent and gas stove, to a 1973 tent trailer, that was literally just that, a tent on a trailer, then a circa 2000's tent trailer with a stove and small fridge, finally purchasing a hybrid Jayco Jay Feather 17' trailer with heat, air conditioning, stove, microwave, fridge and even a small bathroom.



Life was grand! Traveling the secondary highways of Mexico, the US and Canada, transporting our 'cargo' as we went and homeschooling our 7 children as we went. They're understanding and grasp of North American Geography second to none.



But, as you can well imagine; into every life, a little rain must fall. Repeated arrests and seizures at the border resulted in our "owing" some significant debts to a South American drug cartel.



We were getting older and needed to settle down. Perhaps it was time to provide some stability for our family. The kids were getting older and we thought that maybe, it was better for them to learn skills other than how to hotwire a car, or survive in the desert. Maybe post secondary would be a good way to go for them. Maybe, just maybe, one of them would become a high priced lawyer and would be able to take care of us in our twighlight years.



So, we moved to Calgary, bought a house, got a cat and a dog, so that we'd look like a "normal" family of nine, all living in a small bungalow. It was a tough ajdustment, but I think we're doing it fairly well.



Long story short, we have a trailer, and we need to put our kids through school, so that they don't fall into the same sordid life that we did.



Thus, we find ourselves with a trailer, and time available for others to experience a little bit of the exciting life of living in nature.



We've been doing this for a year now, and we're so glad that Wheel Estate is providing this much needed oportunity and that we've had an excellent experience renting our trailer for the first year. More My Trailers Easy Tow Modern Hybrid Trailer CAD $ 75 75 / Night CAD $ 450 450 / Week Calgary, Alberta (11) Sleeps: 5 Length: 17