Tally-Ho

My Loving Spouse loves to go out of town.

What if…

What if the states, the cities, the world doesn’t open up again as fast as we’d all like? At our age, we are not willing to ‘just be patient’. Late one Friday evening I said, “Let’s buy a small, cheap RV, so we can be self contained and get out of town.”

He said something like…”what?”

I was greeted early the next morning (Saturday, and did I say early) with the pictures he’d found on Craigslist. They went something like this…

“Ah, no.”

‘Why not?’

“I’m cannot drive something like that. Remember small? Cheap?”

‘You’d be able to drive it.’

“No. Definitely not what I had in mind.”

The research continued, we had very clear criteria.

Cheap, not creepy or stinky, a bed and a toilet….and NOT a project.

We looked at one under a tarp, whose pictures did not include same said tarp.

We looked at smallish big…

Then we threw out anything with a motor. After all, we already had a truck and we were looking for a not creepy, not stinky, bed and toilet. My Loving Spouse said that we’d get a better deal in the winter, than in the Spring and so the hunt continued.

We looked at lots and lots of pictures and the budget went up and down. Most of the listings did not meet all the criteria….but then, there was this one.

There is always good and bad on Craigslist and sometimes the ‘good’ is bad with better pictures. There was something different with this camper and it was this.

“Look at that Camper portable stand. Not only does the stand have wheels, but the owner built it especially for the camper, and he painted it. I think this Seller is a Dear John,” I said.

‘Oh, I think you’re right.’ He said, ‘ I’ve zoomed into every picture and the camper, though older is immaculate.’

“When you’re buying something used, you want to buy it from someone like Dear John”. (John is methodical about taking care of his Scamp trailer and is continually improving it after every trip.)

We went to look at the camper. It took us about 5 minutes to know that it was not creepy or stinky, had a bed and a toilet, a great little layout and at a great price. We didn’t even dicker on the price.

Come Spring weekends, we’ll feed the animals, throw the dog in the truck and get out of town.

Hope in this New Year and we are blessed.