New phase to our excellent adventures!

It has been a while since I posted to this blog. After Scotland, it took us some time to recover <grin>, and then the holidays were here. By spring 2016, we decided that we needed (drumroll, please)... a travel trailer!

If that seems a little over the top, given our age, I find I must agree with you. But there are some pretty sound reasons for embarking on the trailer life.

1. We want to make more frequent trips to see Smoky's mom. 
2. We figure we can "save" some money. Every time we go, we pay a lot to stay in a motel. 
3. A trailer gives us a way to cook. In the past, we eat out almost every meal, and for two folks who rarely eat out, that gets a little old.
4. Having a trailer gives us a reason to plan some short trips in our local area and hopefully even some longer trips in the U.S.

You probably noticed that I used quotation marks around an important word in item 2. We had to use "funny math" to conclude we would save money on this adventure. As long as we don't include the cost of the trailer, number 2 works! We told our son it was part of his inheritance!

I left out the two most important reasons for purchasing a trailer: 

1. Smoky got more excited over this trailer than I've seen him in a long time. That is worth a lot.
2. Getting a trailer forced us to clean out our storage garage. And that, my friends, is priceless!

Stay tuned for a photo of the trailer and a little about how we purchased it.

--Shann