RV Show

I have been tossing around the idea of purchasing something to travel in for years! I get the itch, go look, then the itch goes away. I scratched it again yesterday by attending an RV show in Battle Creek, Michigan. Climbing in and out of at least 60 different types of portable houses one could pull behind a pickup truck. I trudged through big ones and little ones. Tent campers, where the thought of Freddie Cougar at night made my flesh crawl. Hi Lows, which I call a modified barn on wheels, and the glorious dens of luxury, 5th wheels. Almost all of them were equipped with placements for numerous flat screen TV's. Some were even mounted outside where you could watch what ever you want under the shade of the automatic awning. I don't call that camping. It's parking your butt in the dirt and doing the same thing you do at home on the couch. Come on people! Think outside the box! Where's your sense of adventure! Surround sound, fire places, coax TV drops in every room, computer desks, and even a digital antenna that you could crank up were in most trailers. Technology has come a long way since the days of the old Air Streams. I still remember the smell of the wood inside the old one we had when I was as a kid. Maybe I was shopping to try and find my childhood and not just for a trailer.

The RV that I did like would necessitate me purchasing a new 1 ton, diesel pickup truck along with the 35 foot, 5th wheel den of luxury. Resulting in the total package deal costing more than my house! So much for that! The travel trailers that I could tow behind my existing Dodge Dakota pickup were claustrophobic tin cans costing at least 10K. That's a hell of a lot of trips to Vegas, Baby!

I think I scratched that itch. Hopefully it won't bother me anymore.