No doom or gloom here, no problems to report, nothing broke and no poor quality xyz raised it's ugly head. Just a great, relaxing week-end with our 8329ss, the folks in our camping club and a couple acres of green grass to camp on.
The Harvest Festival grounds have been the site of our "Turkey Campout" for over 30 years. We gather Friday in Lodi, CA, get up early Saturday to make pies from scratch and get the 5 or so turkeys into the Weber BBQs and set down at 5:30 PM for a wonderful turkey dinner with friends. The wagonmasters bring in fresh doughnuts Sunday morning and at 9:30, the Lodi FD shows up with a couple of trucks, hands out stickers, the kids climb all over and we load all the new toys the club members donate into a pickup for needy kids in the city of Lodi. We clean up the hall, pack up, say our good-byes and wait in line at the dump station. My family has been doing this for 21 years, through our first tent trailer and then the 5 hard-side trailers to our new this year 8329ss.
Since the fair grounds are "ours" for the week-end, everyone sets up they way they want, facing whatever direction they want and next to or away from whomever...We had 14 or so rigs camped on the grass, we could let the kids and the dogs pretty much run free and everybody came together in the village we put together 10 or 11 times a year. We had great fun!
The trailer was a relaxing home for the week-end and did exactly what we wanted it to do. The cold parts stayed cold, the warm parts stayed warm, the wet parts stayed wet and the dry parts stayed dry. Even the stinky parts stayed where they should! The weather was gorgeous and no one ever thought or even spoke about "winterization"!
For those of you putting your rigs away, and to those of you looking at the next circled date on the calendar (we're going up to the Giant Redwoods after Christmas)...Happy Camping!
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