Old Camper, New Camper

Three years ago, we bought our first RV. We have learned alot about RVs since then and we've also learned that the kids and I (and most of the time Rod) love camping. The first time we went camping I just knew that there would be old people all around us in RVs, but I was so wrong. So many young families camp and everytime that we go camping the kids end up making friends and playing with our 'neighbors'. Our first RV was a class C '91 Tiago Arrow. We thought that it was exactly what we wanted. It did fit our needs and we had many good camping experiences in it. We had our share of issues with it too. There was some seious water damage we didn't know about, but Rod had to fix. We originally thought it would be best to have an RV we could drive. That way, the kids had room and could sit at the table, eat, color, etc. This accept was very nice, but the problem was that once we arrived at the campground we could not go anywhere that wasn't biking distance. We got a pull behind trailer for Rod's bike increase the distance (beyond what a 2 year old could go on a bkie), but soon we added a third child and the trailer only fits 2.


This past winter we visited a RV show and walked through lots of different RVs and Rod and I really got to thinking about our current situation. We thought that it would be nice to have a pull behind trailer, but he wasn't sure how big of a trailer that our current truck could haul (we could not afford a new truck). When we looked into it we learned that we could get a nice size trailer. We were greatly disappointed when we looked into trading our old RV, but decided to try and sell it ourselves. A month ago we sold our old camper. It was bitter sweet. Even Rod who never did like the camper much (since he felt like he was always working on it) felt a bit sad when he watched it drive away.



Our Old Camper: (I hope that the people that bought you are happy.)








Everyone that came out to see the camper was impressed at the inside and how clean it was for a '91.





We had picked out a 2010 trailer that we were very excited about. The weekend after we sold the camper we had decided to go and buy it. However, the dealer sold that camper the weekend that we sold ours. It wasn't the camper that we were supposed to have. We started looking at other new campers, but we were having trouble finding something we loved in our price range. I started to look at used campers and found the one that we ended up buying. We bought it off an individual who live in Marysville, OH. It's a 2006 and it's 31 1/2 feet long. It's light enough for Rod to pull with his truck and has bunks for the kids. It has two slide outs, one in the bunk area and the couch. It was also nice because the guy was selling all of the towing equipment that Rod needed with it too.





We are very excited to go on our first camping trip on Memorial Day weekend.

This is the kids room. It's the biggest slide out and the couch makes out into a bed. There is a dresser in here and a TV (which was the selling point for the kids). Even after the couch is pulled out there is still floor space for the kids to play. There is also a curtain which I'm sure they will want closed!

The couch is the other slide out. Leah wanted to model! There is also a huge cabinet beside the couch. There is a ton of cabinets for storage in this camper. I couldn't even fill them all!

Here's the dinnette and you can see the kids room in the background. The bathroom is off the kids room.

Here's our room. It's in the front of the camper.

The kitchen has a lot more counter space than I'm used to.