KarenInTheWoods wrote:
Here are mine through the years...
First off, as a child, we had a CamperBus from the 60's. Dad bought 2 busses and fixed them up, selling one to recoup the investment on both. It went through a few paint changes. First it was dotted with black sponges like a leopard, then next was green with a big W like a Winnebago, then finally a log cabin effect. We were the original Partridge Family before they even thought of it!
Then on to the 70's.... Dad bought this old Mayfair, I think it was a 1950's model. We would live all summer in it at the lake, and then in the winter it would be parked up on some leased logging land, where we would snowmobile in to get to it, even for holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter (yes, Easter still has a lot of snow in the UP of Michigan)
Now it's the 80's and I am out on my own with my own family. After a few years of various tents, I fanaged to get this old Apache pop-up as a Mother's Day present. Gosh I hauled that old canvas monster for many a mile, and we had the best times! We would toss in the firewood, the kids bikes, and the lawnchairs, and off we would go! And it's still being used today!!!
On to the early 90's. We graduated up to a 1972 Winnebago Chieftan. Boy oh boy, did we hit the high life now! I had a water heater, a shower, and a real oven! AND a toilet... a God-send with having kids. I was able to get this for my own in my divorce, as my ex hated repairing it anyhow. I put on over 70,000 miles on it, just me and my kids. What a wonderful adventure, and LOTS of wrenching!
Ahhh met the man of my dreams in the mid 90's, who also didn't care to wrench on my Winnebago, so he convinced me to sell it and he bought us a new travel trailer in 96. ... it was a brand new 1997 33ft Sierra by Forest River. NEVER had I ever had anything SO NICE! And he put it in MY name, even though we had't even married yet. He wanted me to trust him, and also have a reason to sell the old Winnebago. We pulled it all the country on the tiniest of backroads. THEN we got married and even went for 2 weeks around Lake Superior for our honeymoon. We blended four teens into a family, and plenty of their friends along, camping was a delightful, if not tiring, adventure.
Now the kids are gone and it's 2002. My health circumstances changed, and hubby dearest felt a motorhome would be more comfortable. So loaded up with 2 dogs, our adventures continued. This was a 1994 Coachmen Santara, 28ft. gasser. We also bought a Honda Helix for up on a back rack to get around. We put a lot of miles on this rig, but it started suffering from delamination and needed more TLC than we were willing to put into it.
Ahhh, dear Steveio saw this 1996 Safari Serengeti for sale, and fell in love with it. (2nd to me, of course) He begged for 6 months for us to buy it, and I kept saying NO NO NO. Our lives drastically changed again in 2006, when our son suddenly died. We decided life is too short, things can change in an instant, and Steveio deserves a rig that he wants. So we tightened the belt buckle and bought it!
And the adventure continues.....
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