How did this all come about!

I think I’ll start with little information on how we went from camping to glamping.  We had been tent camping with friends for a number of years.  A couple friends who were not into tent camping wanted to start joining us.  They started going to RV shows and we started going along with them and soon they purchased a Class C Minnie Winnie and they started joining us.  Each time we camped, we unloaded the truck, drug our tent, bed, clothes and accessories to our site and set up.  They backed into their site, plugged in and hooked up a hose and they were done.  We started getting envious.

A couple years later we were camping at Rend Lake in Illinois and left our tent for a week since we were coming back again the following weekend and our friends with the Minnie were staying.  So, there just happened to be somewhat of a tremendous storm that week and our tent didn’t fare so well. It had a couple broken poles, it was wet inside and our canopy was torn to pieces.  I will try to post pictures (See Below) of that later but that was the first step in getting serious.  We started seriously looking for an RV. We had decided that we would buy a Class A so that we would have a motorhome that was big enough to actually live in and maybe someday travel full time. So we started looking around St. Louis and it was difficult to find a motorhome in the area that was used and in our price range.  A couple months later we were camping again at Rend Lake and in the middle of the night it started raining, then our air mattress decided to deflate with us lying on it and, since it was a double high type, it started engulfing us at 2 o’clock in the morning.   That was the fall of 2013 and that’s when we decided it was time to actually buy something before the 2014 camping season.

We happened to be going to Phoenix for Thanksgiving to visit family and we decided to look while there.  Lo and behold, we found something pretty close to what we were looking for, in the right price range and as it turned out, we made the purchase on Black Friday 2013.   We put a deposit on it, the dealership was a consignment center, they said it would be okay to leave it there until spring and we can come get it when the weather allowed, so we didn’t have to drive it back in the winter. They even said they would not charge us a storage fee.