Tag: camper


  • Do these four things before buying an RV

    After renting a Class C motorhome we decided to buy a truck camper. But figuring out what we wanted and finding it proved difficult. In May 2020 we decided we might want to buy a motorhome. After renting a Class C we knew we could enjoy the camping life, but it took us weeks of…

  • This app connects campers to unique places to stay

    If this is your first time to our blog, you may not know that in July 2020 we bought a 2004 Lance 1030 truck camper. We spent the summer preoccupied with renovating it and didn’t even think about the need to plan ahead and book some trips. Around mid-September, we decided we wanted to venture…

  • Why we chose to buy a truck camper over an RV

    After renting a Class C to test the concept (and not liking it) we accidentally stumbled upon the perfect RV for our family. In previous posts I shared how we began talking about buying an RV and the various steps we took to finding one that would work for us. In the end we decided…

  • Five things we learned on our first truck camper trip

    When we first started talking seriously about buying an RV it coincided with an anniversary hike to Tallulah Gorge State Park in Georgia. It was May 2020 in the peak of the coronavirus, so there weren’t a lot of things that were open. We wanted to get out of the house and away from the…

  • Our Lance truck camper remodel

    This post was a long time coming. That’s because a year ago I floated the idea of buying a van and turning into a camper by my husband and he vetoed it. And then COVID-19 happened and life changed. We didn’t know how we would visit his family in the fall, clear across the country,…

  • Dreaming of a camper makeover

    Will is handy. If he is idle for too long he gets bored. In fact, the first month of quarantine during the pandemic he rearranged our garage at least three times. He also started brewing beer in our garage, built a gate for our front porch and then ran out of things to do while…

  • Want to buy an RV? Do this first.

    After renting a Class C motorhome we decided to buy an RV. But figuring out what we wanted and finding it proved difficult. For what seems like a year I had been floating past my husband, Will, the idea of building a camper van ourselves. He was not at all interested in taking on such…