Until just a few years ago, our family did not go camping. Vacation for us was typically renting a home in Orlando for a week to briefly escape the frigid cold winters here in Michigan. Sometimes we would trade our timeshare for a nice condo in a historical area like Williamsburg or a luxury hotel in Cancun. But never in our wildest dreams did we ever think we'd own an RV!
What happened? A few years ago, a group of our friends invited us to join them for their annual two week vacation in Ludington State Park (in northern Michigan). We drove up to visit them for a day and had a great time. Later that year in our Christmas letter, my husband writes that we're going camping the following summer. We are?
The next two summers we borrowed a trailer from friends. It was a nice way to ease into camping without all the responsibility and commitment of being an RV owner. The end of January this year, we again secured the much sought after camp sites in Ludington along with our friends. The trailer that we'd borrowed in the past had been sold, but we assumed that we'd find something to stay in by the time the August dates rolled around. No worries...not then anyway!
A couple of weeks ago, Steve and I started to seriously consider what we were going to take our family camping in. We'd been spoiled by the use of a trailer in the past and didn't see ourselves tent-camping for two weeks with four teenagers. We looked at renting and realized that by the time we rented for the next six years (until our youngest graduates) we might as well go ahead and buy a good used trailer. We checked out several retailers until one day Steve stopped on the way home from a golf course and discovered a 2005 Travel Star that had just been traded in. It had everything we were looking for and the price was right. Now it's parked in our driveway awaiting our departure tomorrow.
All I've got to say is, never say never!
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