Meet the newest member of our RV family!

For now we are calling her our little dingy.  She is a 16 foot, 1975 Layton travel trailer. As you can see she needs a little work but the structure is good and everything but the A/C works. We brought her home on June 24th, and parked her in the site next door. 2 days of mad dash work and she's already looking better.  She got a paint touch up, new door knob and lock, new screens, battery box, A/C cover, propane tanks, rear tire cover and cabinet hardware. Mostly cosmetic but makes quite a difference.  I'll try to attach some photos soon.

The hardest part of our new baby was finding a place to park her.  Apparently they have an issue out here of people renting storage spots and then abandoning thier trailers. We finally found one that would take us, signed the papers and took her to her new temporary home last night. Silly us thought, we can park a 40' fifth wheel in a pull through spot.  How hard can it be to back in a 16' trailer. Well, I'm sure they'll be watching that security camera footage for months.  I'm taking the high road of it only took 90 minutes. Ralph decided it's like childbirth and he needs to forget before we take it out and have to repark it.

For now she's tucked in, we will visit and do some more work on her, like sealing the windows.  Otherwise the Midwest mosquitoes will eat Ralph alive.  At the moment she will stay until her maiden voyage to Chicago in August. Hopefully all goes well and we will continue to do more traveling with our little dinghy.