"Scarcer" than hens' teeth

WVbassmistress wrote:
Several of us on the forum have noted how rare TC's are east of the Mississippi. The past 2 weekends really brought that home to me.

Two weekends ago, we fished a tournament on Bluestone Lake in southern WV. To our surprise, there was another truck camper about 3 sites from us. Of course, we struck up a conversation about how hard it is to find these things in our state. Funny...it was like being a member of a very select club!

This past weekend, on another trip to another local lake, we had at least 2 people come up and talk to us about the camper. Not to mention the "head turning". I think the fact we were dragging a 22 foot pontoon made the rig a little obvious. We shared our story about the why's and how's and they asked the where's. Me being me, I always opened the door and offered a tour. Everyone is always so surprised how nice and well equipped these things are inside.

When I was showing horses, I was dubbed the "Cruise Director". If anyone showed the least interest in what we did, I would take them from stall to stall introducing them to the horses and letting them pet the ones that wouldn't bite their hand off. Now, I LOVE showing off my truck camper. What a great conversation starter!!

I have noticed another thing the TC has changed in my life. I called my husband yesterday on the way home from work to tell him I saw a truck camper on an exit ramp headed out towards our house. In my childish manner...I wanted him to go look for it!(I also saw it this morning boon-docking at the Walmart out my way - Bigfoot on a purple truck towing a cargo trailer) Then he proceeds to tell me that HE saw one as well - a Coachman. It hit me as really funny that now truck camper spotting is some kind of game that we have developed.

It just hit me that this box on the back of our truck has had an effect on our life that are not so obvious at first. We have hit a new level of "team work". We can take the tailgate off and on, load the camper, hitch up the boats without a word...just kinda move as a single unit.

I know this has been a topic before...but do you have little ways it has changed you and your life? Or am I just romanticizing it?

We just got home from your area.... we stayed 4 nights at the St Albans boat ramp.... Janet had her 1960 class reunion at South Charleston.... we shopped one morning at WM and Sams on Corridor G.... and did an interview off Oakhurst and Bridge Road on Saturday morning.

Someone flashed lights at us on the bridge ramp when we went to the Kanawha County Court House on Friday morning... I put a copy of my DD-214 on file there in July of 1962... thank goodness... They gave me 3 copies, notorized.... free of charge. (Now I'll find my original papers at home)

Charleston is very clean and pretty compared to most places.

Thought we might see you... Janet spotted a couple of TC's... I was busy watching traffic.

Chet