grayghost
10-14-2003, 07:10 AM
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we made our first ever trip in the tm, and our first ever camping experience. since we live on 100 acres of gently rolling landscape with a 3 acre pond, wooded areas and a stream we did not get the tm to go camping, we can do that here. but we did get it to stay at the grounds of dog field trials we attend.
we drove to michigan on fri 10/3 and arrived at 8 pm in a driving rain, in the dark. we had help in backing into the spot to plug in. we enjoyed sleeping in the tm, and there was plenty of room for our 2 weims. holly opted to sleep with me on the pull out front couch (2720sl) and hunter decided to sleep on his mat on the floor.
we left there sun 10/5 on our way to raymond, nebraska. we stayed overnight at gibson's rv camp in illinois just east of the quad cities. again we arrived in the dark but had no problems opening up the tm.
left monday morning and arrived at the field trial grounds while it was still light out. this venue was part of branched oak st park. the trial grounds were a little crowded, but we knew all our neighbors.
we did some cooking, had a little pot luck lunch with some friends. there was a clubhouse there and a couple catered the breakfast and lunch and we took advantage of that.
the clubhouse had running water but the toilet facilities were old fashioned outhouses. not too bad, except for that possum that fell in and kept biting everyone in the *ss.
the night of the banquet, which was held off the grounds, we put 2 dog crates in the tm for our dogs to stay in, since we used our tv, to drive there with another couple.
we left there sun 10/12 and spent the night at crooked creek campground just outside of columbia, mo. since we knew we would be getting there about 9 we opted to have dinner at a truck stop. even though we arrived at the rv park in the dark we still were able to open up the tm.
towing was fine, if the traffic allowed we did get up to 70 mph at times and it was smooth sailing. we did spot two tms on I-70 heading west in mo on mon 10/13.
to be continued
we made our first ever trip in the tm, and our first ever camping experience. since we live on 100 acres of gently rolling landscape with a 3 acre pond, wooded areas and a stream we did not get the tm to go camping, we can do that here. but we did get it to stay at the grounds of dog field trials we attend.
we drove to michigan on fri 10/3 and arrived at 8 pm in a driving rain, in the dark. we had help in backing into the spot to plug in. we enjoyed sleeping in the tm, and there was plenty of room for our 2 weims. holly opted to sleep with me on the pull out front couch (2720sl) and hunter decided to sleep on his mat on the floor.
we left there sun 10/5 on our way to raymond, nebraska. we stayed overnight at gibson's rv camp in illinois just east of the quad cities. again we arrived in the dark but had no problems opening up the tm.
left monday morning and arrived at the field trial grounds while it was still light out. this venue was part of branched oak st park. the trial grounds were a little crowded, but we knew all our neighbors.
we did some cooking, had a little pot luck lunch with some friends. there was a clubhouse there and a couple catered the breakfast and lunch and we took advantage of that.
the clubhouse had running water but the toilet facilities were old fashioned outhouses. not too bad, except for that possum that fell in and kept biting everyone in the *ss.
the night of the banquet, which was held off the grounds, we put 2 dog crates in the tm for our dogs to stay in, since we used our tv, to drive there with another couple.
we left there sun 10/12 and spent the night at crooked creek campground just outside of columbia, mo. since we knew we would be getting there about 9 we opted to have dinner at a truck stop. even though we arrived at the rv park in the dark we still were able to open up the tm.
towing was fine, if the traffic allowed we did get up to 70 mph at times and it was smooth sailing. we did spot two tms on I-70 heading west in mo on mon 10/13.
to be continued