Camping and RVing
I know what you are going to say –
RVing isn’t “real” camping. But if
you are going to be on the road for a couple of months, sleeping in a tent can
get kind of old, real fast.
Mark had rented campers in
the past with his family and was familiar with RVs – trailers, motorhomes, and
the like.
Left: Painting by Barbara
See, 1976
After tenting for a few years, we
bought our first “rig” – a 1988 Prowler (Fleetwood) 18’ travel trailer. We towed it with a Toyota 4x4, which was
pretty much overloading the Toyota.
We drove this rig all over the US.
Our initial reason for buying it was to visit Oshkosh, WI to see the airshow. We drove that rig several times to
Florida, the Northeast, and Oshkosh.
The Toyota is now in Guatamala.
Left: a small State Park in
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP).
Very idyllic.
Mark and I are life members
of the Good Sam Club, an RV
organization.
Our next “rig” was a 27’ Wilderness
(Fleetwood) 5th Wheel trailer, which we towed with a new Ford
F-150. Again, the F-150 was
probably at or near its capacity, but it never complained. We took this rig to Florida several times,
Canada (Prince Edward Island, Novia Scotia, North Bay, Ontario) as well as
cross country (California, Texas, etc.).
Left: A Sketch of our rig by my draftsman at his ranch in West Virginia
(sketch, Richard McMurry)
Our present rig is a small motorhome,
a 1994 Gulfstream Conquest 21’ Class “C”, which is easy to maneuver and
park. We have driven this rig to
Florida a few times and spent two months in 2001 touring the western US and Mexico. We hope to drive it to Alaska in 2003.
Above Photo: The Mystery Machine,
Moab Utah; Sketch Right: Fun in Mexico (R.
McMurry)
Deadhorse Point, near Moab, Utah,
Summer, 2001. Amazing. You have to get out of the Office and
see this stuff!
Right: Camping in the Hamptons. We went to Long Island to pick up a new
engine for the BMW
which we put under the dinette.
Fresh mussels and scallops from Montauk steaming on the grill.