Austin, Texas-based RV rental company Outdoorsy says it will be offering free road trips to health-care workers throughout the U.S. and Canada once the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.
The company is rolling out its “Book One, We’ll Give One” program, which it says, “builds on Outdoorsy’s mission to make memorable outdoor experiences accessible to all by connecting RV owners with travelers wanting to reconnect with nature.”
For trips booked from now until June 30, Outdoorsy will match the booking with free road trip nights donated to deserving health care workers. The road trip recipients will be selected through an open-to-the-public nomination process to win a three-day, two-night RV rental from Outdoorsy and an annual membership to Harvest Hosts, a membership club for RVers offering free camping at more than 1,000 wineries, breweries, distilleries, farms, golf courses, museums and other unique attractions. Each week, winners will be selected and shared as more nominations and bookings are made.
“The CDC has said spending time outdoors can improve overall health and wellness, so to thank our health-care heroes for the sacrifices they’re making now, we want to gift them peace of mind for later,” said Jennifer Young, Outdoorsy’s co-founder and chief marketing officer. “Our mission is to make memorable outdoor experiences accessible for everyone, and we know Outdoorsy has an important role to play at this moment in time. Knowing that a road trip can help you to recharge and reconnect motivated us to launch this program, and to be able to give back together with our community of RV owners and renters makes this cause even more important to us.”
To kick off the give-back program, Outdoorsy says its first road trip recipient is Danielle Martin, an intensive care unit nurse at Uvalde Memorial Hospital outside Rio City, Tx. Martin and her husband, who nominated her, are both nurses. Danielle, who is eight months pregnant, has been working full time throughout her pregnancy, treating COVID-19 patients despite her worries about contracting the virus and putting her own health and unborn child’s health at risk.
“This means the world to me as I begin my new journey as a mother. This means my husband and I can take our new baby on his first trip this summer,” Martin said. “We are both working full time as nurses right now, so we can take time off when our little one is born and take him to see family. We love road trips and cannot wait to share this experience with our son.”
People can get involved in Outdoorsy’s give-back program by nominating a health-care hero; booking a trip themselves knowing that a health care provider will receive a free one; or lending out your RV that can be used by a health-care hero. Click here for more information.
