We love couples that work together. Paul and Keri Porter have been together since high school, now with the kids grown, they’ve dropped into four-wheel drive with a vengeance. Training trips, shows and adventures keep them away from home for more than half the year. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.
8:35 – It was definitely a struggle in those days, but we had a lot of fun.
16:49 – I got invited to the Badlands with a girlfriend and came home and told Paul he needed to buy me a Jeep
21:14 – They told us it had a lift on it; it didn’t but we didn’t know what we didn’t know
26:20 – During the club years we met so many who bought this adventure vehicle and didn’t know what to do with it
30:57 – Our business had two parts, we run adventure trips and offer training courses
37:23 – we’ve got big rig trips and beginner trips and not much in between, so we’re trying to fill that gap
46:22 – I love KOH, but I’m thankful we had something to do because we’re not people who just sit around
TRANSCRIPT
[00:01:39.670] – Big Rich Klein
On this episode of Conversations with Big Rich, I’ll be talking with Paul and Keri Porter, high school sweethearts married with now-grown children who have decided to trade in that 9:00 to 5:00 lifestyle and go all in with the four-wheel drive lifestyle. Paul and Keri Porter. It’s so good to have you guys here on the podcast. Keri, I know you from the Rebelle, Paul. I’m not sure if we met during the gala, if you came out to the gala?
[00:02:13.300] – Paul Porter
I think five years ago, it was real brief, we shared a car ride, actually. Okay. Yeah, I got to fanboy over you a little bit.
[00:02:21.890] – Big Rich Klein
Well, that’s funny because I’m just like anybody else. I’ve been in deep into this stuff for a lot years, but I put my pants on one leg at a time like everybody else. So it always cracks me up when people come up or say something like that because I don’t feel that I should be special to anybody about being that fanboy type stuff. But thank you. So let’s jump in. I know you guys were born in Michigan. You want to talk about those early years?
[00:02:59.810] – Paul Porter
Sure. Yeah, I’ll let Keri talk about that.
[00:03:02.210] – Keri Porter
So I was actually born in Arkansas. My parents moved to Michigan when I was about six months old. And so then I was raised in the Temperance, Michigan, area. My dad worked at a horse bedding racetrack in Toledo, Ohio, which is just over the state line from us. And so I used to spend sometimes my weekend night at the horse track with my dad.
[00:03:27.370] – Paul Porter
Yeah. And then we ended up meeting in high school, actually. Kind of high school sweethearts, and we’re not tired of each other yet.
[00:03:37.190] – Big Rich Klein
Perfect. Are you guys, were you in the same grade in high school?
[00:03:43.660] – Paul Porter
No, she’s kinda robbing the cradle. She graduated one year before me, so we started dating when I was 15 and she was 16. My parents used to drive me over to her parents house so many years ago, and We started dating way back then, and it just seemed natural after high school. We got engaged and got married. We’ve never gotten tired of each other all these years. READ MORE
