Memories: First Trip in the RV

I just finished reading a blog titled " RV Sue and her Canine Crew".  The writer is very clever and has sold everthing she owned to buy a small "Casita" RV to tow with her Chevy Van.  She is on the road now with her two dogs and living the RV lifestyle fulltime.  She spent her first night at a Corps Park on a Lake outside of Corsicana, TX, where she picked up her Casita.  Luckily, a great couple met her at the campground and helped her with her "first time."

Ah, the memories.  It took me back to the first time we spent the night in our first fifth wheel.  We went to Waurika Lake.  A good size lake in SW Oklahoma.  I should have known that something was amiss when there was only ONE space left on a lake that has at leat 100 spaces, maybe more.  We left home, paid our park fees and headed for our "spot".  Oh my,  it was sloped downhill toward the lake, seriously.  Undaunted,  Herb backed in (always an adventure) and we began to set up.  The space was so sloped that there was no way to level the rig.  So,  getting up in the night to visit the loo was a downhill adventure.  We only stayed one night.

     Backing a 37 foot fifth wheel hooked to a 22 foot pickup was always an exercise in driving me to drink.  Your hands go on the bottom on the steering wheel and you go the way your hands go, left or right.  Herb did not think that was ever a good idea.  We have had truck drivers jump in and save us from losing our voices screaming at each other.  But, it was fun and durn....Herb just remembers the good stuff.  He is such a blue sky day kind of guy.  Eternal optimist bound to an eternal pessimist.  Maybe a good mix for life on the road.  RV Sue only has canine companions.  They do not comment.  More to Come....H, C, and Boo too