When Daniel Walsh left a 20-year career as an English teacher and administrator for the New York Education Department, he was looking for the same thing many people are: a little excitement.
“I knew I wanted to do some travel, and a life on the road in the U.S. full-time was an option,” said Dr. Walsh, 55. “But doing something abroad was also an avenue.”
Before he left New York in 2021, he began researching the first option: a nomadic life traveling around the continental United States in a travel trailer.
“I looked at dozens, if not hundreds, of travel trailers, and they tend to have a hotel-slash-diner feel to them,” he said. “I definitely wanted something that was warmer and more personalized than that.”
When he stumbled upon the work of Perpetually Devastated, a small company in Coquille, Ore., that customizes vintage Airstream trailers — in the process, making them look more like chic country houses or cabins — he was impressed. So he contacted the company’s founders, Parker Bolden and Bethany Williams, and commissioned a bespoke trailer of his own.
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