Name: Bobby Riggio Goes by: Crazy Cajun
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Hammond Louisiana
Education (High School): Hammond High
College Attended: L.S.U. "Geaux Tigers"
RV Industry Experience: Since 2009
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Cliff Jones RV, Automotive for 27 years
Hobbies & Interests: Sports - Football, Baseball, coached little league baseball for 25 years
Best RV Advice: A Lifetime of memories in RVing
Email: briggio
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Name: Cal Saunders Goes by: Cal
Specialty: Towables & Motorized
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Education (High School): Highland High School
College Attended: American River College, CA
RV Industry Experience: Since 2006
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2006
Occupation experience before Holiday World: 20 Years - Sales Manager for a steel foundery in Angeles Camp, CA; 15 Years - Plant Engineer for a steel Foundry in Sacramento, CA
Hobbies & Interests: Wood Working, Golf, and Trap Shooting
Favorite Quote: Grave Marker: "I Told You I Was Sick!"
Best RV Advice: Don't buy too small, you will grow into the unit.
Email: csaunders
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Name: Chuck Keller Goes by: Chuck
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Erath, LA
Education (High School): Erath High School
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2008
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Air Quality Sales for 20 Years
Hobbies & Interests: Fishing and Camping
Favorite Quote: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
Best RV Advice: Don't chase the dream, Live the dream.
Email: ckeller
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Name: Colin Henry Goes by: Colin
Specialty: Towables
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: Friendswood, TX
Education (High School): Friendswood High
College Attended: ACC
RV Industry Experience: Since 2010
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2010
Occupation experience before Holiday World: 20 Years of sales experience
Hobbies & Interests: Golf, motorcycles, dogs
Favorite Quote: Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
Best RV Advice: Buy the BEST RV that you can, You work hard and you deserve the best.
Email: chenry
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Name: Danny Thompson Goes by: Danny
Specialty: Towable & Motorized
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: Texas City, TX
Education (High School): Texas City High
College Attended: College of the Mainland
RV Industry Experience: Since 2007
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2007
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Automotive industry sales for 25 years. Construction for 14 years.
Hobbies & Interests: Golf, camping, pets and grilling
Favorite Quote: There is no substitution for the lack of preparation
Best RV Advice: Buy the most RV you can buy
Email: danny
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Name: Darrell Joyce Goes by: Big D
Specialty: Motorized
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Richmond, IN
Education (High School): Richmond Sr High School
College Attended: Phoenix College and Arizona St Univ
RV Industry Experience: Since 1989
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2010
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Selling RV's almost all my adult life. My expertise is primarily in motorized units. My Personal Forte is Diesel Motor Homes
Hobbies & Interests: Spending quality time with my wife and son. NCAA Football and Basketball
Favorite Quote: Those who die with the most toys wins.
Best RV Advice: Treat your RV with the love and care as if it were your prized possession. It will reward you in a number of ways.
Email: djoyce
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Name: Garry `Croc` Marshall Goes by: Croc
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Born in England at the end of World War II, this hyperactive RV consultant has a wealth of experience as an International traveler, adventurer and naturalist.
Education (High School): Fluent in German, Spanish and a smattering of many other languages, he has led a life that can normally only be found in travel guides.
College Attended: Over the last 30 years, he has taken his different RVs to 27 countries covering most of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Central America. His last trip covered Mexico, Guatamela, Honduras, and Belize.
RV Industry Experience: Since 1960
Time with Holiday World:
He has worked for Holiday World of Houston for the past 9 years in a full time capacity but has recently gone into semi retirement. He now acts as consultant specializing in clients who wish to go full time or extended time RVing. He is available by appointment on each Wednesday and Thursday and for general sales on the weekends. He has one son who has recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and is currently in law enforcement in Los Angeles.
Occupation experience before Holiday World: In his early years, he found his lust for adventure sent him to Switzerland to join the Circus Family of Conny and Gerda Gasser who were world renowned trapeze artists. He traveled for many years with the family eventually opening and managing oceanariums and wild life parks world wide for them. To this day he is involved with a love of nature that involves his being a leader in the conservation of the America Salt Water Crocodile, a highly endangered species found in Central America. There, he runs a sanctuary for these "not so cuddly animals".
Email: croc
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Pictured here with his little girl, Daisy May, who is the unofficial campground hostess at Holiday World-Katy.
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Name: J J Jaramillo Goes by: JJ
Specialty: Towables & Motorized
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: League City, Tx
Education (High School):
College Attended: San Jacento
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Business Owner
Hobbies & Interests: All Sports
Favorite Quote: There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
Best RV Advice: Two stacked windows usually means Bunk House.
Email: jjaramillo
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Name: J J Pollinger Goes by: JJ
Specialty: Towable and Motorized - Internet
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Washington Township, NJ
Education (High School): Klein, TX
College Attended: NHCC
RV Industry Experience: Since 2007
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2010
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Traded stocks & options. Owned appliance, furniture and electronic scratch and dent stores.
Hobbies & Interests: Travel, golf and all sports, bible study and volunteer work. Spending time with my wife, daughter and dog.
Favorite Quote: "The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard is Fear the true God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole obligation of man." - Solomon
Best RV Advice: Get out and have fun, unplug & enjoy the great out doors!
Email: jpollinger
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Name: J. C. McDonald Goes by: J.C.
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Cumberland, MD
Education (High School): Frankfort
College Attended: Glenville State / West Virginia University
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: College and High School football coach
Favorite Quote: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Teddy Roosevelt to the Rough Riders before San Juan Hill
Best RV Advice: Go take your family to the places you want to go. Spend as much time together as you can - make memories.
Email: jmcdonald
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Name: Joe Johnson Goes by: Joe
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Akron, OH
Education (High School): St. Mary's High
College Attended: Ohio University
RV Industry Experience: Since 2002
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2007
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Previous RV sales, sold spas in Beaumont area and ran a coffee service there.
Hobbies & Interests: Hiking, camping, and bicycling
Favorite Quote: Go Go Go Rving
Best RV Advice: Get out and enjoy the country with family and friends.
Email: joe
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Name: John Harris Goes by: John
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Yuba City, CA
Education (High School): Biggs High
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2000
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: 30 years of sales experience, business owner
Hobbies & Interests: play guitar, scuba diving, travel, reading
Favorite Quote: We become what we think about most of the time.
Best RV Advice: There are very good reasons Keystone is the #1 selling RV for 12 years in a row.
Email: jharris
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Name: Jose Bolea Goes by: Jose
Specialty: Motorized
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Magnolia, TX
Education (High School): Academia Hispano- Mexicana
College Attended: Northrop
RV Industry Experience: Since 1980
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2001
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Owned and operated my own publishing/printing company. Started selling RVs at Lazy Days in Florida. I moved back to Texas and sold RVs for Bated Motorhomes and Burditt RV.
Hobbies & Interests: Golf and animals
Favorite Quote: I may not agree with what you have to say... But I will defend with my life your right to say it.
Best RV Advice: Crank it up... and go enjoy it!
Email: jbolea
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Name: Lance Walker Goes by: Lance
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Akron, OH
Education (High School): Buchtel High
College Attended: University of Maryland
RV Industry Experience: Since 2006
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2006
Occupation experience before Holiday World: U.S. Army
Hobbies & Interests: I enjoy playing golf and riding my motorcycle
Favorite Quote: No false starts or lateral movement
Best RV Advice: Do not sacrifice quality
Email: lance
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Name: Louis Gonzalez Goes by: Lou
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Orange, New Jersey
Education (High School): West Orange High School
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Previously a deputy sheriff, then I got into car sales.
Hobbies & Interests: MMA, Boxing, Weightlifting
Favorite Quote: "That, that is, is"
Best RV Advice: Find the one you love and love the one you find!
Email: lgonzalez
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Name: Michael Warren Goes by: Mike
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Macon, Ga
Education (High School): Central High
College Attended: Macon College
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Outside Sales
Hobbies & Interests: Hunting, fishing, camping, golf
Favorite Quote: Philippians 4:13
Best RV Advice: Buy from Holiday World and Have Fun!
Email: mwarren
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Name: Mike Biffle Goes by: Biff
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Stone Mountain ,GA
Education (High School): Shamrock High
College Attended: Sam Houston State University
RV Industry Experience: Since 1997
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2002
Occupation experience before Holiday World: RV Sales
Hobbies & Interests: Golfing, camping, concerts, enjoy Astros games, college and pro football
Favorite Quote: Don`t be a Spectator, Don`t let life pass you by. Lou Holtz
Best RV Advice: If you want many year's experience with RV Sales and Construction with over 1000 customers sold and served; plus, a fun experience finding the perfect camper for your family. Ask for Biff!!!
Email: biff
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Name: Rey Silva Goes by: Rey
Specialty: Towable and Motorized - Internet
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: Corpus Christi, TX
Education (High School): Foy H Moody
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: 10 years in sales of heavy duty transportation mainly 18 wheeler and trailer equipment.
Hobbies & Interests: Family and church,fishing,camping,music,sports.
Favorite Quote: "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power." Clint Eastwood
Best RV Advice: Take the time to decide and let your salesman know all your needs and wants.
Email: rsilva
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Name: Roy Moore Goes by: Roy
Specialty: Towable & Motorized
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Thibodaux, LA
Education (High School): Robert E. Lee HS (Houston)
College Attended: Southwest Texas State
RV Industry Experience: Since 2000
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2000
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Restaurant Business. Corporate chef at Houston's restaurant. Proprietor at The Original Pasta Co.
Hobbies & Interests: Cooking, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Motorcycles
Favorite Quote: If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
Best RV Advice: Use your RV as much as possible. Do not let it be an ornament.
Email: rmoore
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Name: Russell Smith Goes by: Russell
Specialty: Towables & Motorized - Internet
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Ingleside, TX
Education (High School): Ingleside High
College Attended: Sam Houston State University, Blinn College
RV Industry Experience: Since 2013
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2013
Occupation experience before Holiday World: I began my career in the media, landing a job at the local CBS affiliate in Corpus Christi. After working two years as sports reporter and anchor, I took the job as the sports editor at my local hometown newspaper. Also hosted a weekly TV show covering entertainment and independent music/musicians while I was at the paper. After my career in the media, I switched gears and went into retail sales. Started with a jewelry store, where I was the assistant manager, before being recruited into car internet sales. Worked in that capacity for three years before finding a home at Holiday World.
Hobbies & Interests: Spending time with my wife, son, family and friends in any capacity. And the quality of my relationship with them is directly tied to the quality of my relationship with God. My wife and I also like watching sports—particularly college sports—and try to make it to as many games as possible. I follow Auburn, A
Best RV Advice: Time spent sitting next to someone isn't necessarily time spent together. Life's too short to spend it in front of a TV. Go camping.
Email: rsmith
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Name: Sara Bramble Goes by: Sara
Specialty: Towable and Motorized - Internet
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Bay City, TX
Education (High School): Southwest High School - Kansas City, MO
College Attended: Central Mo State Univ.
RV Industry Experience: Since 2006
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2010
Occupation experience before Holiday World: I have a Variety of work Experience but most includes sales. I like people & helping them find a solution to their needs. I guess I don`t think of that as sales, just helping people!
Hobbies & Interests: I love animals! I am hoping to find a way to have a horse again! I love gardening, reading, & surfing the internet. I also am a movie go`er - I love a good movie!
Favorite Quote: "When we go to the edge of all we know and step off into the unknown - we are taught how to fly!" - Unknown
Best RV Advice: Look for the unit that truly fits your needs & how you plan to use it!
Email: sbramble
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Name: Steve Lankford Goes by: Steve
Specialty: Motorized
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Born in New Orleans, LA/ Raised in Houston, TX
Education (High School): J Frank Dobie High
College Attended: San Jacinto Jr College
RV Industry Experience: Since 1988
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2002
Occupation experience before Holiday World: I have been involved in the RV industry in the Houston area for about 20 years. After about a year of college, I decided to join the military. I spent the next 5 1/2 years traveling the world in the U.S. Navy. After the military, I did different things until I landed a sales job. Got more and more experience in sales and started in the RV side of sales in 1988. Been there ever since.
Hobbies & Interests: Most all sports, camping, fishing, hunting and I enjoy old movies. I love to cook and experiment with it.
Favorite Quote: People don't care how much you know `till they know how much you care.
Best RV Advice: Buying and RV can sometimes be a nerve racking experience, especially for the first time buyer. My best advice is to be sure you are with a sales professional that is experienced and knowledgeable in the RV industry. You want someone that will listen to your needs and wants and gives you all the information you need to make a well informed decision. I believe this concept is the way I like to be treated. Because as a sales professional in this industry, WE SELL FUN!
Email: steve
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Name: Steve Sellers Goes by: Steve
Specialty: Towables
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Houston
Education (High School):
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2012
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2012
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Contract work in support of our troops.
Hobbies & Interests: Fishing, Camping, Traveling
Favorite Quote: Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Best RV Advice: The RV you're looking at today and want to think about until tomorrow, may be the RV someone else looked at yesterday and is purchasing today.
Email: ssellers
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Name: Tegan Summers Goes by: T-Bone
Specialty: Towables & Motorized
Location: Katy, TX
Hometown: Katy, TX
Education (High School): Livingston HS
College Attended:
RV Industry Experience: Since 2002
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2002
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Landscape Forman, Building Superintindant
Hobbies & Interests: Fishing, Hunting, Dancing, Softball
Favorite Quote: Anything worth having is worth working for
Best RV Advice: buy from Tegan
Email: tsummers
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Name: Tim Kievit Goes by: Tim
Specialty: Towables
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: Clear Lake, TX
Education (High School): Friendswood High
College Attended: San Jacinto College
RV Industry Experience: Since 2006
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2006
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Car salesman for 5 years
Hobbies & Interests: Family, soccer, boating and fishing
Favorite Quote: If you are going to do something right, do it right the first time or don`t do it at all.
Best RV Advice: Don't buy price, buy quality
Email: tim
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Name: Ty Garza Goes by: Ty
Specialty: Towables
Location: League City, TX
Hometown: League City
Education (High School): Clear Lake
College Attended: Texas State
RV Industry Experience: Since 2011
Time with Holiday World:
Since 2011
Occupation experience before Holiday World: Roofing sales, insurance sales, property adjuster, small business owner - Bicycle store
Hobbies & Interests: Surfing, motocross, hunting, sports, traveling
Favorite Quote: Play like a champion today.
Email: tgarza
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