Travel Touring and Trips is run by Sammy Faircloth. She is a freelance writer and has been a regular contributor to the caravan and motorhome press for more than 15 years. Her practical articles have appeared in the Caravan and Motorhome Club members' magazine, Caravan Magazine, and both Practical Caravan and Practical Motorhome Magazines. She has also been part of the expert judges panel for the annual Caravan and Motorhome Club Design Awards for a number of years. Sammy is the daughter of the late John Wickersham, a renowned expert in the area of Caravans and Motorhomes and author of the top-selling books - Caravan Manual, Motorcaravan Manual and Build Your Own Motorcaravan. Having worked closely with her father, she learnt much of what she knows from his extensive experience. Sammy has travelled extensively throughout the UK and Europe in both motorhomes and caravans developing her knowledge and technical expertise further and is now a respected writer in this area. In 2016 Sammy won the ‘Doug King Award for Journalism’. This meant a lot as Doug King was a good friend to her late father John Wickersham.
Read some of Sammy's published articles.
Sammy is also a member of the Caravan Writers Guild, the professional body for journalists in the Caravan and Motorhome industry.
In 2021 Sammy self-published her own book -
The Caravan Handbook - A concise "all you need" guide for current owners, ‘newbies’ or anyone thinking about buying a caravan. Following on from the success of the first edition, an updated second edition was published in 2023.