Dream Realization Time

When we retired here to SW Virginia, my mother's home state (if Fairfax can be considered as being in the same state!) we talked about splitting our time between VA and northern Maine by either building a small camp up there or putting a camper in place. The older we both get, the more a camper sounds like the best solution, and this last long, hot summer was the convincer. Campers have AC, for one thing.

Tomorrow, we drive at the crack of dawn to Richmond to check out a used camper that a bank has put up for sale after their foreclosure action. It's sad to take advantage of someone else's loss, but the nearly half-price bid having been accepted contingent upon our actually viewing the camper makes it a great bargain.

It looks beautiful; we'll see if it is, and haul it home; it'll make a nice 'guest cottage.' Dick's good high school buddy runs a very nice camper park with hot showers, washers and dryers, internet and cable access, with a ridiculously low annual fee. The camper we're looking at does have a nice shower, but the park's showers are roomy.

Dick would be able to stay in the camper during hunting season, or to guide hunters. Best laid plans...who knows? The camper may turn out to be less than promised; we could be driving back to Rocky Mount disappointed and disillusioned.

But no! Let's think positive! Will blog about what happens, you betcha.