Monday, June 23, 2008

Our second home


Here is our second home...the kids have had great fun breaking it in. Cousins and friends have slept over, neighbors have come for a tour and many movies have been watched in it. It has been a great place to send children for some "alone" time. However it has yet to leave the driveway, and I'm not sure if it will before we leave. I'm going to start packing it this week.

In the Beginning...

We decided that it would be great fun to drive across the country, a great family adventure. We thought about camping, staying in hotels and even towing a trailer but there always seemed to be something that wasn't going to work with each method of transportation.

Then last summer, we were driving back from a wet tent camping trip on Hornby Island when we noticed motorhomes on the highway and started to talk about the pros and cons. There were a lot of pros, especially with the size of our family, to traveling in a motorhome. The only drawback was the GAS CONSUMPTION, especially with the way gas prices are going.

We started looking around...slowly, looking at some older used ones and a few super nice newer and very expensive ones. It was a long process, we had criteria that had to be met...but we finally found something that would work.

Now I have to figure out what to put in it...all before we leave in a few weeks!! Gotta get started on some lists.