10/03/2026
Four years ago today, in 2022, Tonya and I started our RV journey.
At the time, it never dawned on me that we would eventually start a YouTube RV travel channel. Little did we know how much fun we were getting ourselves into!
Sure, the camper had a few hiccups during that first year—the “shake-down period,” as I like to call it. But even with those issues, we never once felt like giving up.
One thing I’ve learned about owning a camper is that during the first year or so, if something is loose, eventually it’s going to show itself. And if you’re even slightly handy, most things can be fixed—and often made better than when you bought it.
In late 2023, we decided to start filming our adventures after watching other RV channels. We were inspired by what others were doing, so I started collecting footage from several of our camping trips and editing it together.
Then, in January 2024, I started posting those videos.
It wasn’t easy—and honestly, it can still be challenging. I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, and through it all, Tonya just kept supporting me.
The Fort Wilderness series we released in 2024 became one of our first big periods of growth. Those videos were getting thousands of views and, collectively, brought in more than 1,000 subscribers.
But even with that success, things were still pretty modest compared to where we are today.
Before January 2025, most of our videos would get only a few hundred views in their first week. If we were lucky, a video might eventually reach 1,000 views in a month.
Then everything started to change.
It wasn’t until January 2025 that our channel really started to grow.
Our Camp Gulf video from 2024 suddenly took off. On January 1st, it had around 7,000 views. By the end of that month, it had reached 20,000 views and gained around 200 subscribers—the best-performing video we had ever made at that point.
By the end of February 2025, that video had passed 50,000 views!
That success helped other videos take off too, including our St. Andrews budget video series comparing it to Camp Gulf. Between Camp Gulf, St. Andrews, and Fort Wilderness, we gained more than 1,000 subscribers in just two months!
The rest of 2025 was incredible. We were getting tons of views, gaining subscribers, meeting many of you in person, and chatting with others on Facebook.
And somewhere along the way, we gained something even more important than subscribers: new friends.
Many of you have been right there with us throughout this journey, and for that, we are truly thankful.
Our dream is to one day make Glamp Review so much more.
By “more,” I mean more content, more adventures, and more time doing what we love.
I’m up for retirement in a few years, and the plan after I retire is to devote myself full-time to Glamp Review. Right now, I already spend so much time making our content, but I know how much more I could do if I had the time.
So, to wrap this up, thank you to every one of you who has supported us through views, subscriptions, likes, shares, comments, and now Hypes!
You have helped me take a dream and start turning it into a reality.
And most importantly, thank you to Tonya for being there beside me through all of it.
Four years of RV adventures—and hopefully, many, many more to come.
Thank you all!
And Tonya, I love you! ❤️
