Our new to us camper ~ Yay!

Hi Friends,

So here is some big news… right before we left for vacation… the day before actually… we put a down payment on a 33.5 foot Toy Hauler. And the day after we got home we picked it up!

We have been looking for a toy hauler for a few years in hopes of adding to our ability to travel more often with our motorcycle and someone else… 

One of our cats, Tracy, has asthma and allergies and needs her inhaler every 12 hours and Claritin every day. She takes both easily with no effort… she is very trained and will let others give her her medication, but it’s hard for me to let go of that responsibility for very long. I need to know my baby is ok. What if her asthma flared in the care of a cat sitter and they did not know what to look for? What if they didnt know when to give her albuterol to save her life and open her airway?

So we only take one vacation a year together so that Shane or I can be home for Tracy. Yes, we are THOSE people. We care THAT much! She is our child. Finding someone to just feed the cats is easy but Tracy’s care has always held us back. No more!

Getting a real camper instead of our pop up camper enables us to take Tracy with us and makes it easy for us both to leave.

So yeah... we bought this camper for Tracy. >^..^<

And luckily… Tracy LOVES the camper! She truly enjoys hanging in the camper with mom. It makes her HAPPY!

Watching the birdies… and probably sticking her tongue out at the rest of the primcats up in the cat enclosure. Neener neener neener. ;o)

 

Happily making pushy pushy on the couch.

 

Hanging on the bunk watching the birds in the bushes! Look at those eyes! Focused!

(Disclaimer... I hope someday to take other cats in the camper as well as Tracy. For now... just Tracy. She is 100% trained, comes when called, obeys commands and is trustworthy. Yep. Trained cat! She is my cat-dog. She is not silly or aloof; She also would NEVER bolt from a camper like most other cats would. I do not trust any of my other cats at this point to safely travel in the truck to wherever we are going or to safely stay in the camper with us for extended periods of time without freaking out. So no need to comment that I'm being unfair to my other cats. I am not. What I am being is a safe responsible cat mom. Thank you for reading. ) (Added... yes, I was sent 2 private messages on facebook that I was being a terrible cat mom and playing favorites by taking only Tracy. Isn't that sad someone, 2 people even! actually took the time to tell me that?)

Now… the thing that held us back over the years on getting what we wanted, a toy hauler, was of course, price.

We are not by any means wealthy. We both work but we don’t have money to throw away on very expensive extra’s like a Toy Hauler. And even a SMALL Toy Hauler runs thousands more than a regular small camper. Larger ones (like the one we got) run Tens of thousands more just because you can put toys in them. Prices on Haulers are off the charts. So we have been waiting years for a deal to come along… and a deal finally did.

The camper we bought came from a Repo Auction. A dealer bought it and on the way back to the dealership… a giant piece of fiberglass ripped off the side. I mean giant. Roof leak. Delaminated side. They no longer wanted to deal with it and they just wanted to unload it. The same day they brought it back… Shane called to check their inventory. And the dream was set in motion.

Why is a jacked up camper with a roof leak and missing side the best thing we could ever find you ask?

Well because Mr. Primcat is an auto body, paint and customization master! And my best friends husband works on big ol’ busses for a living. Between the two of them… they fixed this...

They repaired the roof leak and fixed the side. Yep… perfect. Can’t even tell they fixed it. Blended that baby like butter. Dang he’s good.

Sorry for the bragging… but I have to. ;o)

He really impressed me here. 

The last 2 weeks have been spent out in the camper cleaning and getting ready for our first camping trip with Tracy. We are both super excited about it!

I will share interior pics soon! You know there's a crock in there now... right next to the diamond plate back splash in the kitchen! ! ;o) 

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats