Who We Are

In today’s world, transactions are being made constantly, without any real connection. As companies grow larger, they lose touch. Well, that’s not us. Here is an introduction to Sean & Sara Kendrick and the Pike brand.

Who We Are Behind the PIKE

Sara is from Rockwall, a suburb East of Dallas, and I grew up in the Texas Hill Country town of Kerrville. We got married crazy young, as far as today’s norms go… 18 and 20. We immediately moved to a ranch West of San Angelo as I finished college, and Sara was getting ready to have our first child. Everything we’ve done since those early days has been an adventure, a brand new chapter (in my head anyways) of a western novel.

We lived in 7 towns in 7 years working on ranches. Most of those remote locations required you to be self sufficient and thankfully, I have specialized in the art of “jack of all trades, master of none”. We built our own fences, broke horses, and most importantly for this story, built everything in house. We built horse trailers, flatbeds, truck bumpers etc.

We love seeing new country and I can be a bit restless, to put it lightly, to see over the next hill. In 2019, I built a small camper for my family of 5 to do just that… get off-road and enjoy some views off the beaten path. It was just a simple 5×10 teardrop, built like a tank, with a roof-top tent, and we used it all over Texas and the Southwest.

In the past, It was so easy for me to convince myself that I was too busy with work to travel with my family. I had responsibilities and didn’t have time to go to the mountains for the weekend. I know I’m not the only one, I see the same with most people in today’s crazy world. That camper changed my perspective on the work/life balance.

We didn’t need a big fancy camper and an f-350, or 2 weeks to travel Baja. We just needed a simple weekend in the middle of nowhere with kids running around screen-free. A good IPA around a campfire. A zero bars signal on our cell phones.

Sara is pretty much game for anything, and the idea of starting a camper company didn’t phase her in the slightest. We started designing and building over the course of 2 years. Build a camper, scrap it. Build a camper, refine it.

It was a hefty task for a ranch manager to spend as much time as was required chasing down licenses, talking with the state of Texas, researching insurance companies, dealing with LAWYERS to make sure we had everything we needed… but we are sure glad we did. We are super excited to introduce our camper to the market with the materials and design choices we have made.

In the next post, I’m going to go over why we build our campers the way we do, and why we chose to omit some trendy parts, and add others.

Thanks for reading along and we hope you’ll join us on this adventure.