How did you begin this hobby?
I started a blog to write articles about our adventures and decided to start back at the beginning. The beginning is always a good place to start. Attached is my article on how we got started. ...
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Growing up as a kid (in the city), my parents had a cabin on the ocean waterfront and we spent every single summer there. No water, no power, no phone, no sewer, no nothing. Did lots of fishing in summer and duck/bird hunting in the fall. Never traveled anywhere (still bothers me tho.). Sure learned to appreciate the outdoors. I guess I developed a bias and hated any kind of RV after that. Have lived on acreage for 25 years and can't imagine ever being apart from the country and the great outdoors.
Fast forward to a few years ago when my FIL had a stroke. He lived a few hundred miles away and my BIL set us up with his friend's TT in a local CG so we could go visit FIL in hospital. We ended up thinking a TT was pretty cool, even though the TT was old, quite small, had a lousy layout and the bathroom was really stinky (am used to an outhouse, no big deal here).
Later in the same year, we went to a car club gathering in southern Oregon at Howard Lake Prairie CG (nice place and lots to see nearby) and stayed in one of their rental TTs. Thoroughly enjoyed the camping experience, which included a bad lightning storm that knocked out the power and someone stealing all of our large firewood pile one day.
After we got home (early Sept. by then), we decided to just go *look* at TTs at a few local RV dealers. Really had no intention other than looking. O carp, - we ended up buying a year-end blowout special at a price we couldn't resist. Thus began our interest in RV-ing and haven't looked back. We took this TT back to the above CG in Oregon the following summer for our first long distance trip with it. Way too much fun...
We really wish we had gotten into RV-ing a long time ago, esp. when our kids were young. We're now on our 3rd TT. When we bought our first TT, we thought all you did was hook it up to our truck and go off into the sunset to camp happily ever after. How naive. We are now well-indoctrinated into the many things that can go wrong with owning an RV, some of which have been very serious indeed.
In summary, totally love the RV-ing experience of travelling and going to campgrounds. Personally, I also totally love being able to do modifications to these things, some simple, some crazy. 'Course, camping today for me is a far cry from roughing back when I was a kid, and that's just fine by me. :)
Fast forward to a few years ago when my FIL had a stroke. He lived a few hundred miles away and my BIL set us up with his friend's TT in a local CG so we could go visit FIL in hospital. We ended up thinking a TT was pretty cool, even though the TT was old, quite small, had a lousy layout and the bathroom was really stinky (am used to an outhouse, no big deal here).
Later in the same year, we went to a car club gathering in southern Oregon at Howard Lake Prairie CG (nice place and lots to see nearby) and stayed in one of their rental TTs. Thoroughly enjoyed the camping experience, which included a bad lightning storm that knocked out the power and someone stealing all of our large firewood pile one day.
After we got home (early Sept. by then), we decided to just go *look* at TTs at a few local RV dealers. Really had no intention other than looking. O carp, - we ended up buying a year-end blowout special at a price we couldn't resist. Thus began our interest in RV-ing and haven't looked back. We took this TT back to the above CG in Oregon the following summer for our first long distance trip with it. Way too much fun...
We really wish we had gotten into RV-ing a long time ago, esp. when our kids were young. We're now on our 3rd TT. When we bought our first TT, we thought all you did was hook it up to our truck and go off into the sunset to camp happily ever after. How naive. We are now well-indoctrinated into the many things that can go wrong with owning an RV, some of which have been very serious indeed.
In summary, totally love the RV-ing experience of travelling and going to campgrounds. Personally, I also totally love being able to do modifications to these things, some simple, some crazy. 'Course, camping today for me is a far cry from roughing back when I was a kid, and that's just fine by me. :)
