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| Karl posing with RV on our first trip the day after we took delivery, which was our evacuation for Hurricane Irma! |
We frequent Florida
State Parks, and other state and local parks in our travels. Our foray into
camping started with two converging wants: something to replace the sailboat
trips we gave up a few years before when we sold the boat due to bad back
issues, and the desire to spend more than just the day between opening and
closing in the parks.
We started eight years
ago with 10 year old 19’ camping van, loved the freedom of having our own bathroom,
bed and kitchen just like the sailboat, and never looked back. We moved to a
newer van, and continued our explorer, nomadic trips.
A few months ago we
made the decision that we while we wanted to continue our frequent one week or
less trips, we also looked forward to longer trips further away to see family
and friends, and just see more of the country. We considered a second house,
and then realized that a mobile second home made more sense for us. Most of our
travel consists of stays of varying lengths of time in state and national
parks, many of which cannot accommodate the bigger motor homes. We kept our
search to 30’ or less, and two months ago bought a 27’ Axis.
We will need to tow a
small vehicle eventually for errands and day trips, but for now we still do our
short trips to get used to the much larger and taller vehicle, and also to get
used to “slow travel”. In general, the RV cannot be parked in most small towns
or along the road as we did when traveling in the van. We stay at camp more,
hike more, and photograph in place more. After van living the (to us at least) spacious
living arrangements also give us the room to engage in our other pursuits, play
board games, and all the things that sometimes take a back seat when home with
more distractions.
We do have all the
comforts of home in a different place and in a smaller package. So, are we
camping, or RVing?
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