Travel Trailer

For the last few years Carol and I have been setting aside a few bucks here and there so we could buy another travel trailer. We can't afford a new one but we had hoped to find a “fixer upper” in halfway decent shape.

We looked at some real beat up trailers with busted out windows, leaky roofs, rotten walls and rusted frames. We had a thousand dollars set aside but no matter how hard we looked all we could find were junkers.

Last spring while we were sitting out on the patio talking, I watched as a crow landed on the roof of our shop building and I noticed how bad the shingles were. It was then that I realized that we were going to have to get a new roof put on it, and soon! I had known that it was getting pretty bad, but it definitely wouldn't last through another winter without leaking.

There went our trailer money, (and then some!)

After the new roof was finished and paid for, we just knew that now that the trailer stash was gone we'd see great deals everywhere. We pretty much gave up on ever getting another RV and quit looking.

Our local cable TV company has a feature in the mornings on channel 13 called “The Wheel.” It's a herky jerky revolving gizmo with typewritten, misspelled ads for everything from puppies to pickups. It's a free service and almost all of the locals use it.

A couple of days ago Carol was watching and saw an ad for a 24 foot travel trailer - $950.00 OBO. “Too bad!” she said, “ That might be just what we were looking for.”

“Why don't you call them and find out more about it. We've got a few bucks in the bank, maybe we could swing it.”

Well, Carol called, we met the owners friend who was selling it for him, and we wrote a check for $900.00, which pretty well cleaned out our bank account.

It took us several days to get it ready to tow home and we had a heck of a time backing it in to our driveway, but we finally breathed a sigh of relief. We had another travel trailer!

Now the work begins!

Repair toilet. Fix hot water heater. Fix propane tank hold down. Find new mattress. Fix bathroom light. And the list goes on.

It's our Christmas present to each other and we're already enjoying it!