Way back in 7th grade, around Halloween, my English class was assigned to write a story beginning with the words “It was a dark and stormy night”. Most kids used it to preface scary or gory tales worthy of Halloween (you know, as the assignment intended), but I decided to use the dark and stormyContinue reading “A dark and stormy night in Mississippi”
Category Archives: Camper set-up and maintenance
Welcome to the Sunshine State
Our general plan for this trip was to slowly meander south to the Florida Keys, avoiding highways and stopping for points of interest all along the way, and then to head west and visit Big Bend National Park in Texas before finishing out the winter in New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. The meandering andContinue reading “Welcome to the Sunshine State”
A vacation from the vacation
We rented an Airbnb for 4 nights to get healthy and solve a condensation conundrum.
Setting up the camper
We purchased our Livin’ Lite slide-in truck camper at the end of September from a seller on Craigslist. It was road-ready at the time, but we needed to figure out how to pack our necessary belongings into it for the trip. We took the camper to Maine for a few days in late October forContinue reading “Setting up the camper”