Gypsy Journal
The RV Travel Newspaper
March-April 2003

RVing Family Enjoys Music and Travel

While staying at the fairgrounds RV park, we met a delightful family who are traveling around the country home schooling their two children and playing some of the best foot tapping music we’ve heard in a long time. The O’Brien Family Band consists of Mom and Dad, Janette and Dan, son Kyle, age twelve, and nine year old daughter Maura. All are highly accomplished musicians, both youngsters are fiddle champions, and Kyle is also a champion yodeler. When this family gets to picking and singing, I guarantee you’re going to have a good time.

The family performs at RV parks, festivals, cowboy poetry gatherings, and other events around the country when they are not exploring new territory, visiting national parks, and teaching the kids about our history by actually standing on the spots where the cannons roared and following the routes of the early explorers. Also included in this full-timing family adventure is Dan’s 77 year old mother Grandma Bonnie, who suffered a stroke ten years ago that left her an invalid. "Grandma Bonnie is such an important part of our family that we could not imagine not taking her with us," Janette said. The love and good times this family shares is obvious, and getting to know them was a real treat.