R-Travato

Greg Schultz

Greg Schultz died at age 78 on Monday, April 7th at his home from a heart attack.

We appreciate that Greg has touched many people's lives and have received suggestions for a service, parade or memorial, however we are just too overwhelmed to put together an event at this stage. As an alternative, we would love for people to take a moment and celebrate at meetups and share their pictures and videos.

This site at https://www.rtravato.com/ is the official memorial site.

Recent posts

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    Travato 8.0 delivery video from Winnebago

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    Retirement

    Today, April 5, 2023, I’m celebrating the 10th Anniversary of my last day of employment.

    After 23 years on the retail side with Worths Stores and then 20 years as a landlord with Westfield I enjoyed my work life in the shopping center business. I was fortunate to be surrounded by and able to interact with many great people. From time to time I read articles posted here about leadership and question if I left lasting positive impressions on my employees. I did the best I knew how at that point in time. The people at Westfield handled “succession planning” well and gently closed the door behind me. My first thoughts were: Oh Crap! Now what? And my phone stopped ringing.

    Well, Rory Packer told me that I’d find my “encore career”. He failed to tell me that I wouldn’t get paid. In 2015 my wife and I purchased a Winnebago Travato (Class B motorhome RV) and started traveling around the country in it (instead of by motorcycle as we had previously done). One thing led to another and I found myself joining (and being an Administrator) on the Travato Owners and Wannabees FB Group. Since then, thanks to Winnebago’s continually making improvements to their product, we have sold and purchased several times and are now on our seventh Travato. This has given us a rather unique understanding of the product and I have continued my life in a “go to” situation by answering tons of question on the FB group, so much so that Winnebago has given us a “Product Ambassador” title. We’ll continue to use our house in the St. Louis area as a home base as we travel all over the country to attend rallys and meetups making new friends wherever we go.

    Hey, this retirement thing is pretty good after all.