Gerri Almand

Author

Gerri Almand was born and raised in the Deep South. She spent forty years serving families and children as a social worker and never tired of having a “front row seat on the human condition.”
Retiring in 2010, Gerri’s world changed dramatically in 2015 when her younger husband, Michael, retired and wanted to buy an RV. The angst of leaving 200+ orchids and a manicured suburban yard, in Tampa, Florida, for long road trips led to Gerri’s first book, The Reluctant RV Wife, released in 2019. Great title. A second book soon followed, Home Is Where the RV Is (2020).
Gerri grew to love minimalism and nomadism. In early 2020, she and her husband left Tampa, and six weeks later, the pandemic erupted. During that first year of full-time RVing, Gerri wrote her third book, Running from Covid in our RV Cocoon (April 2021)Between 2015 and 2020, Gerri and Michael drove over 50,000 miles as they traveled to 49 of the 50 states and 5 Canadian provinces in their 26-ft. Class C motorhome. Exhilarated by the freedom that minimalism offered, they sold their Tampa, Florida home in 2020 and became full time nomads.
For several reasons, by 2022, Gerri and Michael realized they needed a home base. The economy, climate change, Covid, the increasing number of RVers and resulting difficulty getting reservations, mid-seventy ages, increasing health concerns, and a growing sense of social isolation.