In our newest installation of Her Method and the Highway— a material series committed to Airstreaming females– we overtake professional golf enthusiast Dorsey Addicks, who’s logged over 20,000 miles in an Airstream travel trailer. From handling the rigors of training to bringing her A-game to competitors and gaining from fellow Airstreamers, Dorsey’s mobile way of life is a victory.
Dorsey Addicks does not take her Airstream to any of the renowned locations that the Instagram crowd goes after. However her way of life is still the things of envy, specifically for a particular audience.
As an expert golf enthusiast on the LPGA Epson Trip, she invests her days on the roadway or on the course, taking a trip from competition to competition in her 20-foot Flying Cloud skillfully called DA Golfstream.
” I’m on this special journey where I get to link Airstreams and golf,” Dorsey states. “I’m living a great deal of dreams that method!”
Dorsey is chasing after an imagine her own, looking for to get approved for an area on the LPGA. She started playing golf as a kid maturing in Atlanta and completed for Seattle University, acting as group captain for her senior season in 2017. She notched a runner-up surface in the 2016 Western Athletic Championship Game.
Not long after she struck the professional circuit, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the United States. Dorsey and her papa, Rich Addicks– a retired photojournalist and Dorsey’s caddie– chose to examine methods for her to take a trip securely. Luckily, they currently had a respectable concept for a feasible, comfy option: Rich is the owner of a 25-foot Airstream that he and Dorsey frequently required to amateur summer season occasions throughout the years.
” Therefore that’s actually where this all began,” Dorsey states. “A number of occasions in, he stated, ‘Why do not you begin checking out Airstreams … it may make a great deal of sense, however cost-justify it and return to me.'”
Dorsey dug in with gusto. “I invested a month simply looking into the heck out Airstreams, to the point where I might generally inform you what size it is driving down the roadway based upon the window setup.”
And she discovered her house far from house. In fact, it may just be house. She pulled the trailer 20,0000-plus miles to 33 states in 2021. Dorsey invested 281 nights in DA Golfstream in 2015, far eclipsing her time at her moms and dads’ location in Huge Sky, Montana.
” It is most likely much easier to call the Airstream house than it is to call Montana house in regards to variety of days I remain in it or there,” Dorsey states.
It served its function of keeping her safe on the roadway as the pandemic raved. Her only direct exposures to other individuals remained in the supermarket or on the golf course. Like all Airstream travel trailers, Dorsey’s design has a galley that serves the double function of permitting her to make healthy meals while on the roadway and conserve cash over eating in restaurants.
Dorsey’s house on the variety (house at the driving variety?) likewise benefited her as an expert athlete in other methods. She took weights and exercise equipment with her to remain healthy, turning the concrete pads in recreational vehicle parks into makeshift health clubs. Having a regularly comfy bed mattress likewise assists her video game.
And when it comes to driving her own rig?
” You understand, we aren’t making a lots of cash to fly. Some ladies do fly week to week, however most of us on the Epson Trip in fact drive week to week,” Dorsey states. “So I’m currently going to be driving, which’s simply the name of the video game and what we do. … You are pulling now, so the focus and the energy that enters into driving is a bit more. And when you arrive you have actually got to establish.”
” However at the end of the day, you do not need to unload. You constantly have your bed. I like to state I’m house anywhere I am. Does not matter where in the nation we are. I’m house. So there’s a consistency. I can prepare for myself. I’m not remaining in host real estate where I do not understand what to anticipate, and I’m not in a hotel with simply the uniformity of being on the roadway.”
When crisscrossing the nation becomes part of your occupation, experience is baked right in. So, when she’s not taking a trip from competition to competition, Dorsey likes to park DA Golfstream and completely take pleasure in the animal conveniences of her Airstream. She invests simply a number of months with her moms and dads in Huge Sky in the winter season, however then she heads to St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia, where she resides in a recreational vehicle park and practices her video game for the season ahead.
” I simply take pleasure in remaining in one location when I can be in one location,” Dorsey states. “I might take a weekend and increase to North Carolina or down to Florida, however we’re on the roadway a lot– I simply choose to sit tight.”
While her papa takes a trip with her frequently, Dorsey’s rather skilled at getting her rig established and evacuated on her own. In reality, if you have a look at her Instagram profile at @dagolfstream, you’ll see her providing her Airstream a bath at a recreational vehicle park.
” I feel quite happy to be a single woman who goes and drives a truck and understands how to back a trailer and repair her trailer and do all that things,” Dorsey states. “Actually the very first time I pulled it myself, I had not even practiced supporting yet. So, it was type of among those things where you simply needed to discover rapidly. I pulled into a pull-through, and I resembled, I wish to be over here, and I simply needed to find out how to overcome there.”
And when she hasn’t had the ability to figure something out, she’s discovered a friendly and useful neighborhood in the recreational vehicle parks where she remains. That’s specifically real for other Airstreamers, Dorsey states.
” It’s type of like this unmentioned household, where you see other Airstreamers and you’ll go talk them up or they’ll come chat you up. It’s quite cool, since everybody has a various story concerning their Airstream– what year it is, did you redesign it– so it’s type of a cool neighborhood because sense. It’s been an enjoyable, enjoyable journey.
As a professional golf enthusiast and an Airstreamer, Dorsey might provide brand-new significance to the expression “long drive.” However she definitely likes it in all senses of the word, and she’s even assisting to transform a few of her fellow rivals on the trip. While her long-lasting, at some point strategies might include a cattle ranch in Montana, she might likewise think about a function as an Airstream sales representative.
” I’m respectable at it,” she states with a smile.
