Camper

On Friday morning, at 6 a.m., we headed to Lake Zurich, Illinois. Which is basically north of Chicago. We were headed to Camping World to look at a camper we found online. The trip would take the average family 7 and a half hours. Well, we are no longer the average family. It took us 10 and a half hours. Not to mention, most of the country had been hit by snow on Thursday, so the roads were not great. We saw about 100 cars, trucks, and semis off the road, in ditches, down hills, or head on into trees from the snow and ice on Thursday between Evansville and Lake Zurich .

On Saturday morning, we headed to Camping world to meet with our salesman. They knew we were coming so our camper was indoors in the showroom and thawed out. Thank God. I wasn't going to stand outside, in Chicago, in January, to look at a camper. It was exactly what we had been looking for. It was everything we wanted and the right price. So, we bought it. It is a Laredo 5th Wheel. This took way longer than we ever anticipated. We had to look it over, get a walk through with a man to tell us about it, then go in and negotiate things, and buy it. We thought we would go there, buy it, and head home. We were expecting to get home around 8 pm.. We didn't even leave the dealer until 3 pm. Things don't always go as expected. We drove about 3 hours and it got dark and Conner got grouchy and hungry. So, we are at another hotel, looking for another place to eat. Oh Well. It is just another chapter in our adventure book. We will get up and travel the other 7 hours tomorrow. It was the safest thing to do. It is 0 degrees outside and I am terrified of black ice.

We will leave the camper there until spring and Steve will go back and pick it up.

On Sunday, when we left for home, the temperature was -14 degrees and the wind chill was -30 degrees. Yikes. It was cold.

Two Happy Campers