With my retirement looming in a little over a year my wife (Pattie) and I had decided that our main focus would be on travel. We also decided that travel did not mean going south for the winter or spending two weeks on the Rivera every year. We wanted the whole “Jack Kerouac” type experience of the open road and sampling life in areas that caught our interest along the way.

    We had purchased a large 5th wheel trailer and were happily ensconced in it at our seasonal site. This was going to be our base of operation for half the year. The rest of the year was to be spent travelling the highways and byways of North America.

   Almost immediately we noticed that moving it in and out of the site was going to be a chore with a capitol C. There was zero room for error here otherwise you were on your neighbor front yard and 12000 pounds of trailer tends to leave ruts. Really large ruts. That added to the need for a bigger truck to pull the monster gave us pause for thought as the price of a decent tow vehicle outweighed the price of a new trailer.

    Driving by the RV dealer’s lot I noticed some vintage style trailers. Pattie and I went over to the shop and looked at all the models and opinions. In the end we settled on a 19′ model. So enter “The Baby” .

The obvious question is :” Is it big enough ?” The answer is yes as we have used it as the main trailer for two and a half months straight to house two full sized adults and a pair of hounds (beagle sized). We had no issues at all with lack of room or difficulty to move from site to site.

This was the plan according to all our lack of planning and foresight. “Luckily” the pandemic put everything on hold so we actually got to sit and seriously rethink what we really needed to do.