Category: Creature Comforts

They say to “buy your second RV first.” But it’s best to buy your tow vehicle second. The tale of our purchase of Mr. Charlie our travel trailer discussed the thinking that drove our decision. We wanted a slide-out, a private master bedroom, an outdoor kitchen that would make us the envy of mornings at the music festival – all in a unit close to 21 feet or so. We settled on 25 feet, and were – and remain – thrilled with our buy.

But between the day we put money down on the trailer and drove her off the lot about four weeks later, we had a minor detail to address: the tow vehicle.

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Back when I was 10 or so, my father used to take me camping. When we weren’t tenting beneath the oak forest canopy on the banks of Fisheating Creek, we were hiking through Old Florida pine scrub on the Florida Trail north from U.S. 41 toward Alligator Alley. Those times we did Disney’s Fort Wilderness campground, the kids would stay in a rented trailer. He’d pitch his tent out back. He was that kind of camper. 

About the same time and about 1,500 miles to the north, a girl I’d meet a decade later was camping with her family. They’d tow the family trailer from Toronto to places like Lake Nipissing or Algonquin Park in northern Ontario. They were another kind of camper.

For two families, this was camping. Four decades later, we’re camping again, tho’ our “lodging” of choice might have my dear ol’ dad (RIP) spinning in his REI goose down sleeping bag…

Continue reading “Our Path to (Re)Discovery of Camping & Festivals (Part 1)”