Hello! My name is Kimberly, and I'm currently packing up my belongings/life in NJ to fulfill a 13 yr dream of moving to TN! My daughter, Sarah (7), horse Maverick and dogs: Nadja, Dawson, & Gracie are traveling to TN in style---in our new RV! Well, all except for Maverick---even the biggest of toy haulers wouldn't accomodate him, so he's hitching his own sweet air-ride on fancy commercial transportation and meeting us in TN
Sarah and I are going to take a much-needed, much-over due, and much-deserved extended vacation on our way there...hopping from Jellystone park to Jellystone park the entire way!
(we're big Yogi fans
The past four years have been exceptionally rough and traumatic for us, so this move is coming right in the nick of time.
I'm an author/motivational speaker, and I plan to use our trip to get in some extra writing time (I am very much inspired by nature, and do much of my writing outdoors. My first book was penned while sitting on the beach, listening to the rolling waves!) In addition to my latest writing projects, I'm really excited to be adding two new equine programs onto the existing three existing canine programs my nonprofit organization (Canine and Abled, Inc.) currently offers.
I am partnered with a service dog (K9 Nadja), and we travel the country presenting our motivational/educational program that teaches people about the wonderful benefits that service dogs provide for their partners with disabilities. We also do corporate disability training, advocacy and faith-based speaking programs (my absolute favorite! I love to share the good news of what God has done in my life with others!)
My other two dogs (Gracie and Dawson), also assist us on stage demonstrating service dog tasks and are both certified therapy dogs. Our new equine programs in TN will offer biblical based healing practices in conjunction with equine assisted activities to help people with traumatic brain injury (like me), cognitive disorders, and post traumatic stress disorder. I am so excited to begin these new programs and am blessed to have the opportunity to follow my heart to TN.
If anyone would like to see any of our web sites, just let me know... not sure what the proceedure is here about links, and I don't want to break any rules right off the bat!
You can message me for the site addresses if you're interested in learning more about our programs and "meeting" the Canine and Abled dogs.
Sarah and I plan to purchase our RV in June, and have our pick narrowed down to two choices (the Starcraft Autumn Ridge 186BH & the Coachman Freedom Express 230BH). This will be my first RV purchase, so any advice/comments that anyone would like to provide would be very much welcome and appreciated!
I've aready met Mitch from the Trailer Life forum (Hiya, Mitch!), and am very much looking forward to "meeting" all of the wonderful ladies she assured me I would find here.
--Kimberly