Farewell to our Home away from Home.

When Kendall was a tiny baby (4 months old), Kevin brought up the idea of going camping.  I am not a tent camper, with or without an infant.  To his musings, I responded, "Get me a little travel trailer and I will go camping every weekend."  True to his form, Kevin had procured us a cute little 18 foot travel trailer within weeks. 

 

Our first trip was in April of that year.  We went up to Horse Thief Reservoir.  It was during the time that they had drained the reservoir, and we were one of very few people braving the cold to camp up there.  It snowed on us during that first camping trip, but that was okay, because we slept in a nice warm camp trailer!

There was a bunk bed above the queen bed in back.  Kevin made a wood side railing so that the girls could sleep up there without rolling off.  As they got a bit older, they would open the closet door and use it as a stepping stool to climb up to the bunk.  We camped many times in which I would have to put the girls in the little bathtub at the end of the day to get the mud and dirt off of them.

 

Kevin hung a cork board just inside the door of the camper.  We would take pictures of our camping trips and hang them on the bulletin board. 

I bought an awesome little drip coffee pot that worked by placing it over a gas burner.  I never had to go without a good cup of coffee.

We made many beautiful memories in our little camp trailer.  However, during our trip to McCall we decided that it was time to sell the trailer.  We were unable to take it out last year, and Kevin was sure that he would not be able to take it out this year either.  Items like that are not made to sit.  It was a very emotional decision for all of us.  It felt silly since it was just a material possession, but for us it was more than that.  We will still be able to make beautiful memories.  It will just be through different means and methods.

 

We brought it home last week and cleaned it out.  We put it up for sale on Friday.  Kevin was feeling particular anxious about it and, frankly, so was I.  Day one, we had a number of inquiries, but the right person had not come along.  Kendall and I dropped Sidney off for gymnastics on Saturday morning.  After she ran in to her class, I pulled over.  I asked Kendall if we could pray about the trailer.  She started the prayer.  I finished by asking that God would provide an awesome young family that would make equally awesome memories.  My worst fear is that it would go to an old man that would smoke cigars and use it for hunting.  Not that I have anything against old men that smoke cigars and hunt, I just wanted it to be used in the way that we were blessed to have used it. 

After I picked up Sidney from gymnastics, I arrived at the house to find a young couple (mid 30's) along with their parents (mid 60's) looking at the trailer.  The young couple had two kids ages five and eight.  The couple had grown up camping.  Their parents were going to buy them a trailer for their family.  The couple had been looking for quite awhile.  In fact, the Tuesday before they almost bought a different trailer, but for some reason they decided not to.

Well, they bought our cute little travel trailer.  They were very excited to take it out with their family and start making memories of their own.  Little trailer...we loved you while we had you!  Now onward to more journeys, just different.