Did you know that used slide-in truck campers--which are EVERYWHERE out West--don't exist in Florida? My theory is that everyone who buys one, leaves Florida as fast as they can and never returns! LOL! All we needed was a little, cheap one to slide onto the bed of the bigass truck so we didn't have to mess with motels and dogs and all that on the trip back up to IL..... Well, after days of searching, we'd almost given up and Keith was roaming a lot, looking at the new ones and muttering about the prices. The salesman asked me what we were looking for and I told him "cheap"--as in 'doesn't cost much'. :) Out on the back lot he had this old camper with junk for jackstands...cheap. So we bought it and then stood back to see just how he was going to get it loaded onto the truck. :) He did it. 2 forklifts lifted up the camper, KEith backed the truck under the camper and they let it down into the bed. And there it sits. It doesn't look bad on the outside, but it's been "used"! LOL! Fridge doens't work, stovetop is rusty, upholstery is pretty sad and the canvas (it's a pop-up) has been patched and repatched. But it doesn't stink, it's solid, and it's a place for our 'family' to sleep and store our 'stuff'. :) We're pleased. Didn't cost us much more that 3 nites in motels and all those meals on the road! Put a block of dry ice in the fridge and we've got a place to store food for the trip. Toss in the featherbed and pillows, a fan and shower stuff and we can go camping!!! lol! We do have to go buy a portipotty for it, but we needed one anyhow.
Today Keith is off to New Smyrna to try to buy a utility tractor for us to haul back to IL and use on the farm. DON'T ASK ME!!! I don't understand why on earth he and Jared can't wait and look for one up in the Midwest?????????? But that's what he's doin'. If he buys it, then he has to buy a trailer to haul it! AND get it licensed and insured. And all this so there'll be a utility tractor for his favorite son to use! That boy doesn't know how good he's got it! LOL!
Me? Oh, I'm going to clean and sort and pack stuff all day.... We're moving, ya know.....
