This video pulls back the curtain on RV Season, with narration and real moments from the road. From sea to shining sea, from Canada to the Gulf of America, eight summers of cross-country travel turned into two books worth of breakdowns, wrong turns, unexpected kindness, and the moments that made it worth doing again next summer. It’s just a taste of what’s inside, the full story lives in The Years of Discovery and The Years When the Road Fought Back.
RV Season is a two-volume travel memoir chronicling eight summers of life on the road — from the early years of discovery to the seasons when the road fought back. Both books are available in paperback and eBook. Start with Book One or dive into both.
Book 1 — The Years of Discovery The first summer we pulled out of the driveway, we had no idea what we were doing. Eight cross-country trips, one German Shepherd, and a marriage about to learn things about itself it never would have learned at home. Book One is the optimistic half — the breakdowns, the detours, the campgrounds, and the moments you only get when you trade the subdivision for the open road.
Book 2 — The Years When the Road Fought Back By the time the second volume begins, the novelty has settled into something more honest. The rig is familiar, the miles are real, and the road starts asking harder questions. Book Two is where the adventure becomes a reckoning — with aging, with change, with a son who has grown up and a wife who has quietly decided she’s done with mountain roads. It ends the way all good chapters end. On purpose, and with gratitude.
Book 1 — The Years of Discovery — What’s Inside
- The maiden voyage — 5,278 miles and no idea what we were doing
- Baron meets a buffalo, Niagara Falls, and half the tourists in America
- A trestle bridge in Hermann, Missouri with six inches to spare on each side
- The Kentucky Bourbon Trail — four distilleries, three days, one near job offer
- A dust devil in Kansas that had other plans for our lane
- The Alaska cruise — the high point of eight summers
- The bluegrass festival, the alcohol-free campground, and the hidden wine
Book 2 — The Years When the Road Fought Back — What’s Inside
- The road gets harder — and more honest
- A 30th anniversary return to where it all started
- The Canadian Rockies — Lake Louise almost didn’t happen
- Baron discovers the Gulf of Mexico and drinks most of it
- The Grand Canyon north rim — the one almost nobody sees
- Sedona at sunrise on the motorcycle — alone with the red rocks
- The summer Kim decided she was done with mountain roads — and what that meant
This short video captures the motorhome, the miles, and many of the moments described in RV Season. From sea to shining sea, from Canada to the Gulf of America, these summers carried more than luggage; they carried laughter, breakdowns, friendships, and the slow passage of time. What you’ll see here is not just a vehicle, but a chapter of life in motion.
Steven Imke is a serial entrepreneur, small business advisor, and the author of 16 books. His life on the road started with a tent, graduated to a cab-over camper, took a detour through a 22-foot sailboat and a 25-foot blue water cruiser — until a waterspout in the Florida Keys ended that chapter permanently. The motorhome years followed, eight summers and roughly 40,000 miles worth. The kids are grown now. These days he pulls a small trailer to elk camp in the mountains or chases deer and pronghorn on the eastern plains of Colorado and calls it good. He lives in Monument, Colorado with his wife Kim, who has earned the right to never drive a mountain road again.