11 Jul 2010
Posted by Dave under Dave's Thoughts,Family
Let’s Go Camping!
Well, we’ve gone and done it. After kicking the idea around for a couple of years, we’ve bought ourselves an RV. Despite not really being the camping types, it’s increasingly expensive to go the hotel route when we travel. Hotels also mean constant unpacking and repacking, not to mention that most, if not all, meals are in restaurants. The idea of an RV where we can each have our things packed away and where we’ve some freedom to just pull over and make sandwiches does have a certain appeal.
So, at the end of May, we noticed our neighbours down the street had a “for sale” sign in the RV that they’ve owned for years, so we went and had a look. Their RV was in great condition, low mileage and the price was good. So we decided to go for it!
We’ve had two trips in it so far, the first was an overnight to Brenda’s brother’s place near Caroline, just to see how it drives. The second was on the Canada Day weekend – this time we were out two nights and made sure to test all the systems – water, heat, fridge, plumbing. We still haven’t stayed at a real campground, we kind of jammed out and “camped” in Brenda’s parents driveway up in Rocky Mountain House. We’re starting to get the hang of it and hope to manage a weekend at a real campground to make sure we know how to operate everything. We need to get the skillset fully functional this month since we are planning to head for the west coast in the RV later this summer.
We’ll do a similar trip to what we did last year to Vancouver Island, but this time we’ll take a little more time and will be able to spend a little more time visiting friends along the way. We’re looking forward to it!
