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I talk about RV modifications we've made on various rigs we've owned.

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I started this follow-up long ago; now it is time to continue the stories.  We now own two RVs, numbers seven and eight in history, since we started to go real RVing in the 1990s. As I discussed in the first post of this blog, I had started tent camping on my motorcycle trips.  Then in the late 1970s, when the Time Out small trailer became available and was advertised as a tent trailer for the larger motorcycles of that era, like my 1975 Honda Gold Wing, and small cars, I got one of those and never really tent camped again except for one trip in 1994.  In ownership up to our first 5th wheel, our 1999 Tahoe, mainly RV life, was about just keeping it going. I never knew anything back in those days about routine maintenance or how to handle situations that may arise as part of RV ownership.  Checking the roof seals?  Never even became a 'thing' to me until our early 2000s Wilderness travel trailer that we found out, while on a long trip in 2012, that the front cap ...
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A Shiny New Blog, this one about our RV adventures.

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Ta-Da!! First up, how we got to where we are today! A long, short story! The beginnings of our RV adventures start for me way back in the late 1970s when my life was airplanes and motorcycles. I bought a "Time-Out" brand two-sleeper folding tent trailer for motorcycle and small car use from the local Suzuki motorcycle dealer as it went out of business. The company actually still makes the larger four-sleeper version, much different than the four-sleeper I ultimately owned.  But this two-sleeper version was all they made back then. I had paid $600.00 for my first Time-Out; it was brand new. A lot of money in 1978 and I had to make payments! I just looked and see the new versions start over $3,500.00!!! Before that, my motorcycle trips were staying at motels or with my friends, with ground tents. I started with an inexpensive "pup-tent" and moved up to a "Eureka" brand tent with aluminum frame poles and a separate rain-fly outside cover. That tent was over $...
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