A transitional year

Just before our retirement from Embarq, a telephone company that was started after Sprint and Nextel merged, we traveled up to Kentucky for Jeff's family reunion. Stayed at a very nice state park, Barren River Lake near Mammoth Cave in central south Kentucky. We found out the Alfa 5th wheel was a bit too big for the kind of traveling Pat and I wanted to do. It was very hard to fit our home in a camp site and as you can see in the picture, we had a tough week climbing in and out of our front door

Despite the fact that we liked the room and comfort of a "HOW" this big, we felt it was to big. Not only the squeezing into campsites but also having to use the bigger highways and interstates, just wasn't what we had in mind. And, on top of all this, loading and unloading our Goldwing in the back was just to much work. We had to down size and figure a better way to carry the bike.

So, after two years living in the Alfa, we went on a search for something smaller and more convenient. At first we looked at class B's and class C's thinking this would be small enough but ran into problems finding one with the construction quality and diesel power we have grown to be comfortable with. Then Pat came up with an idea to keep our Ford truck, which we love, and a covered trailer to haul the motorcycle in, and just put a camper in the back of the truck. During our research and traveling around looking at various models, we found that this side of the RV industry has come a long way. We were amazed at the room and comfort that could be had in such a small camper.