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2024 #2: Disney Beach Baby

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As mentioned in my last post, the long trip we had planned for this spring was cancelled, replaced by a few shorter trips. The first one, detailed in the last post, was to Jim Thorpe, PA. Our next trip was to Disney World. We were supposed to camp with our Oliver in Fort Wilderness at Disney, but the changes meant we flew down and stayed in the All Star Music Resort, instead. I'll be honest, I wasn't happy about this. Disney classifies the All Star resorts as "Value" resorts, compared to the "Moderate" Fort Wilderness. I was expecting a cheap hotel experience. That wasn't the case at all. We really enjoyed our stay there. A clean, quiet room with a nice pool. (I do recommend the "Preferred" rooms at this resort since they're closer to the pool, cafe, and bus stops.) We had park hopper tickets and the counter service meal plan, too, so it was a good trip, even without the RV. After Disney we hitched up the Oliver and headed to the beach for
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2024 #1: 1st Trip in Retirement

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The best laid plans, etc., etc. We were planning a long spring trip to Florida and the Oliver rally but fate had other ideas. Even so, when a few nice days showed up on the forecast we decided to take a quick 6 day trip to Jim Thorpe, PA. It's a town we saw featured by some YouTubers we follow, and it's only 4 hours from home.  The trip didn't start well at all. First time pulling out of our new garage and I forgot to fold up the trailer steps. They hit the wall next to the garage door and broke the framing. The bottom trailer step also bent and wouldn't fold. Panic time!  Fortunately, our friend is a contractor. He came right over and said he'd repair the garage while we were gone. Great guy! As for the trailer, I was able to bend the step enough to get it to close, so the trip was still on with only an hour delay.  We stayed at Hickory Run State Park, about half an hour from Jim Thorpe. The park has a large campground with everything from full hookup to no hookup
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2023 #7: Garage 90% done, ?% paid for

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Early last summer we committed to building a garage to store our Ollie. The original plan was a 3 bay garage with a center bay large enough for the Oliver, plus 2 additional bays large enough to hold our pickup truck and small car. Something like this: We wanted wood-framed instead of a steel building. We thought it would be a little better with heat/cold, and easier to modify in the future. Not to mention a little more residential-looking. Then we started getting prices. That 3 bay garage was going to be too much for our budget, and probably for our yard as well, so we scaled back to a 2 and a half bay garage to house the trailer, truck, and some work/storage space. Most of the work would be done by friends who were contractors, including the excavation/site prep, framing/roofing/siding, and electrical. We wanted to give work to people we know and we hoped to save a little money in exchange for a longer construction timeframe, since some of them would be working on this as a side job.
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