As a Boy Scout I camped in the mountains around Evergreen CO, in the rain forests north of Juneau AK and along the Elkhart river near Elkhart IN.
In 1970 we purchased a Palomino tent camper and after a shakedown week in SW Michigan in the Warren Dunes, we pulled it from Deerfield IL to the tip of Nova Scotia and back with two small boys and an Old English dog on a 31 day vacation. It wasn't a lemon, it was a grove! I sold it.
We moved to Bristol IN with a Sears red and blue 12x12 wall tent which I broke in on a 30 day early spring vacation to Williamsburg VA and spent on the west coast of FL. The weather changed.
I worked for Starcraft and then Coachman. In '74 I moved to Holbrook AZ in a new 20' Coachman Leprechaun Class C. I lived in while serving as priest in charge in Holbrook and Winslow until our home sold in Elkhart. In '76 I traded it for a new 22' Leprechaun with the first Ford 460 engine.
We ran those C's every way possible to northern IN and Laguna Beach CA. When we moved to El Centro CA, we covered all of the US 1 from Chula Vista to the Canadian border as well.
After moving in 79 to Omaha NE, during my divorce, I ended up living in it from 12/28/80 until 11/80, through a bitter cold Nebraska winter. In 7 years I totaled over 101 K miles and enjoyed all of them.
Bev and I were married in August, '83 and moved to TX and then NM north of Santa Fe. In '96 we purchased a '90 37' Gulfstream Friendship with and Oshkosh chassis and a Ford 460 engine. I've added a Safe-T steering stabilizer and a Gear Vender's Gear Splitter. We've basically used it in NM and TX. I hope to sell it and get a Class C again, since we've not been able to use it for several years --too, too busy.
Adios. . .
Bob+? ?