Today marks Day
This blog has been created to share our experience. Our crazy times, our pull- our- hair- out- in- frustration times and our stomach-hurts-from-laughing-so-hard-times. Maybe even share how we run things along the way.
I will be sharing everything....EXCEPT our names and faces.
Throughout our stories you will know us as Mama Bear, Papa Bear, and Buddy Bear.
Living Full time in a Travel Trailer is something we have talked about for years and have spent the better part of the last 4years researching travel trailers. Going back and forth over whether or not we should take the plunge. Papa Bear and I both knew we could make it work and the idea of how much $$$ we would save was very appealing!
In November 2012 we decided we would at least get one for when we travel and see the neighboring states, when we go to Disney for Thanksgiving and go camping. We drove up to Sonny's Camp and Travel and met with Stephen. Papa Bear had been emailing with him for a few days about a few different models. We got a late start that day and it is a 3hr drive to Duncan, SC so we really should have left before 11am but we didn't.....instead we left at 1pm and got in a little after 4pm. They close at 5pm during off season. oops! Once we got there we were immediately met by Stephen and he showed us all the models we had emailed him about. and of course we turned into the annoying people that could not decide on the same camper. I liked one and Papa Bear liked another. We kept saying 'Can we look at the other one again?' and Stephen- being such a patient and nice guy would say "sure, no problem, take your time..." By the end of it all we decided on one and of course by that time everyone but Stephen had gone home for the day. HAHAHA! What makes it worse is that when we got home we started looking at the 2 campers we couldn't decide on online and then saw another and decided it was the PERFECT compromise between the 2 campers Papa Bear and I liked!! Only bad thing was it was not at the Duncan, SC location but in the Concord, NC location...so Papa Bear sends Stephen another email and Stephen has the camper brought down from their NC location. A week later we drove up to Duncan to pick up Aspen!! Buddy Bear was just thrilled to go to Duncan to see campers! He had not been to look at Campers since he was 8 months old and of course did not remember it. I remember we went to an RV show at the Tacoma Dome and Papa Bear carried him the whole time in a Baby Bjorn baby carrier. We had given Buddy a piece of pretzel to chew on and he just held it the whole time and even fell asleep holding it. By the time we got it from him, the pretzel had his finger indentations. We must have looked at a hundred campers that day. and thousands since that day!
We drove Aspen home from Duncan and parked it along the side of the road. The neighborhood we lived in did not allow parking of recreational vehicle for more than 3 days. We were leaving for DisneyWorld in 4 days. We asked for permission to park it there till we left for Disney and HOA was nice enough to say it was ok. We 'played' in the camper every night and even cooked dinner in it a few nights. We felt like the biggest dorks 'playing' in the camper in our driveway but we didn't care. We were having fun. My Buddy Bear loved being in the camper. The best part-- we were making memories.
For me, it was the night we made a big spaghetti dinner and played Candy Land at the dinette that I knew I wanted to Camper live full time. I'm not sure when it clicked for Papa Bear but by the time we got back from Disney we had made the decision to give notice of moving out of our house the first of the year. We ended up moving into the Camper mid-December to help give Buddy Bear a better Christmas and to secure a really great spot at the campground.
I think our original plan was to only Full time Camp till we moved to New Mexico but we quickly started to feel like we never wanted to go back to a real house.
This is our story, we hope to meet other Full time families and share our great experiences with them. WE also hope to show that Full live RV living isn't just for the old folks. ;o)
Till next time--
Mama Bear
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