Evolution of an RV'er (at least this one!)
In 2005, my son's father decided DS needed to be in Boy Scouts and signed him up (we're divorced). As I then became responsible for all the campouts (long story), I bought a tent and some camping equi...
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I’d gladly have joined a Boy Scout Troop when I was young but there weren’t any in my area. But as a teenager I and a couple of friends would take off and wander the mountains in W VA, KY and sometimes TN. We didn’t have any camp gear to speak of so we slept in the car or often on the ground. And on a few occasions with people we met back in the “hollers”. Those trips are where I developed my taste for biscuits and gravy. When I went in the service it was actually a step up, I had a pup tent and a sleeping bag.:)
When I came to AZ many decades ago there was a lot of rough and remote country and I began backpacking, hunting and camping, so I acquired all my camping gear then. I made a grub box to carry all my cooking/eating gear and it converted to a stand with legs. And I made another one to carry the rest of the gear. I also traveled around the west with the same setup for about 17 years. Setting up and breaking camp was manageable, but I tired of the constant packing and unpacking of the vehicle when we were traveling so I finally bought an all metal Coleman PU. That was a major improvement over the packing/unpacking of the tent gear.
We traveled all over the country in that PU and a great many of our best memories occurred camping in the PU. About 10 years later we bought a 16’ TT and most of our longer traveling was with the TT, although we used the PU for short camp trips and it was my base camp for hunting trips. That’s the end of my progression, the TT has done everything I wanted it to do and well, so we still use it.And all of that camping from tents through the TT was with at least two and often three kids and no one was the worst for wear.
When I came to AZ many decades ago there was a lot of rough and remote country and I began backpacking, hunting and camping, so I acquired all my camping gear then. I made a grub box to carry all my cooking/eating gear and it converted to a stand with legs. And I made another one to carry the rest of the gear. I also traveled around the west with the same setup for about 17 years. Setting up and breaking camp was manageable, but I tired of the constant packing and unpacking of the vehicle when we were traveling so I finally bought an all metal Coleman PU. That was a major improvement over the packing/unpacking of the tent gear.
We traveled all over the country in that PU and a great many of our best memories occurred camping in the PU. About 10 years later we bought a 16’ TT and most of our longer traveling was with the TT, although we used the PU for short camp trips and it was my base camp for hunting trips. That’s the end of my progression, the TT has done everything I wanted it to do and well, so we still use it.And all of that camping from tents through the TT was with at least two and often three kids and no one was the worst for wear.
