Has it really been this long since my last post??? Where it seems I’ve been slacking on the blogging front, I’ve more than made up for in the “living life to the fullest” front – no complaints here, especially with so many of the COVID restrictions having lifted. Life and living sure feel a bit more “normal” today than they did the last time I posted.
I bought a super cool 4×4 last summer, and it seems that so much of my free time since then has been spent driving through parts of nature I’ve never witnessed in the RV – let’s face it, a well built off-road vehicle simply goes more places than a motorhome can. So….I’m selling the RV! “WHAT???” you may ask, but honestly, it’s not being used as often as it should be and I really hate to see it rot away in storage until it’s no use to anyone.
We’re building out the topper on a 2000 F250 Super Duty diesel with a too-high lift (we can deal with that over the winter) in order to make a less luxurious but a more sensible-for-our-needs camper. We also bought a really, REALLY cool Gazelle tent that sleeps 6-8 and assembles in 40 seconds (not an exaggeration, it is seriously that fast) to give us more room if/when we end up needing it. We haven’t camped in such a rustic way since we were kids, so it will be interesting to get back to our roots. I will tell you, though, that the build on this “camper” is not going anywhere near as quickly as I’d like… (I’m an instant gratification kind of chick)
As for the 4×4 – ours happens to be a Jeep JKU, but we don’t consider ourselves “jeepers.” That community has proven to be somewhat…troublesome. I see memes every day about how it’s the best community in the world, but I’m just gonna throw this out there – “best communities” don’t spend this much time backbiting and downgrading and mocking and just generally being unhelpful. Not to say we haven’t met some AHHH-MAY-ZING people, we just wouldn’t say that jeepers as a group are our cup of tea. The weird snobbery about what constitutes the “right way” to even just OWN a Jeep really rubs me the wrong way (apparently I DO own a Jeep the “right way” and it STILL bugs me to constantly see the snarky sh*t aimed at others). Anyway, we call ourselves “offroaders” or “4×4-ers” or occasionally “overlanders,” but not “jeepers.”
So, here’s our setup as it sits today – don’t let that bed topper fool ya, it’s rain tight, but it’s literally just a bare truck bed with a liner on the inside. One of these days we’ll have it done and I can share it for the obligatory “ooohs” and “aaahs.” 😛
What do YOU think?