As mentioned in our previous post, we decided to down size in order to tour the country the way we wanted too. Back roads, 200 miles or less per day, no interstates, state and corp of engineer parks.
After checking a lot of class B's and C's, preferring diesel under the hood, we realized real quick that there weren't to many out there. And, the ones that we did find were under powered or out of our price range. Pat suggested we keep the truck and get a truck camper......shocked me......I thought they were a bit TOOOOO small. But much to my surprise, they have come a long way. The advent of a slide out on a truck camper made a major difference in the living area and made them quite comfortable for full time living.
After checking several brands, we settled on the Lance 1191. We were going to get a trailer to haul the Goldwing, washer/dryer, bicycles, tools and misc. items so we thought this model with a side entrance door was perfect. Didn't have to step in and out around the trailer tongue. Turns out this was a great change and it has been working out now for 8 months.
We traveled over 6500 miles through 20 states in five and a half months. We were able to keep to our wondering retired life style by moving the camper from campground to campground, staying for a week or so and making day trips out from there with the Goldwing motorcycle. Turns out we traveled over 7500 miles on two wheels while seeing a lot of the back roads and small towns. We had a wonderful time and met a lot of great people. We took over 70 albums of pictures and can relive all of it any time we want too.
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