We got to talking about RVing and camping on the Farming thread, and decided it might behoove the subject to have a thread here in the Sandbox.
We have never camped or had an RV............so as first-timers we shocked everyone we knew by buying a 44 foot 5th wheel toy hauler. It's a Cyclone, made by Heartland. Of course the old farm truck at 20 years old was a bit long in the tooth to be the tow vehicle, so we went out and got a 2015 Chevy Silverado LTZ crew cab. It's a Duramax Diesel with the Allison transmission. We tell everyone we spent our children's inheritance..........and I should add here it was with their blessing. All 3 of them said "it's your money, you worked your asses off for it, buy the RV and truck and go have some fun". The Spousal Unit said "well, if any of you want to take it and go somewhere, you can, "IF" we're not going someplace".
2 of our sons have, but DS#3 never will. He won't even drive the truck without the RV on it. It's not that he "can't".......he just doesn't want something to happen while he would be driving. :>)
Anyway, the "plan" is for us to spend winters someplace warm.........probably Texas or Arizona. Right now it is not possible for us to do that; we have too many responsibilities here to be gone for 5 months.
The toy hauler will allow us to take our Harleys and bicycles. We have beds to sleep 6, plus a loft that our Granddaughter has eternal dibs on, plus 3 parts of the sofa that are "recliners". So, we say we can sleep 10 if 4 aren't real fussy.
I was told to post some pix of the "Mansion on Wheels". We LOVE it, and try to get away a couple of long weekends a month during the summer. I don't think we will ever be "full-timers".
So, post pix of your campers...........let's have a fun time telling of our trips. I'll tell a little more in upcoming posts.
