Monday, March 19, 2012

Some Pictures

A few actual pictures.

Bullet 230BHS

Outside Dining Slide Out

Awning extended

Under Awning

PrevoStep Step Covers.  I highly recommend them!

Stanley is ready to go!

Upgraded Dining Light

Purple Sheets for the Master.  Just bought regular full size sheets for the camper size queen bed.

Homemade sheets for the bunks.

No such thing as a rug this size so I made one, crocheted sc and lsc with three strands of left over acrylics.

Upgraded porcelain toilet (this unit came with Comfort Package II, heated underbelly, black tank flush system, porcelain toilet, step light, motion sensor porch light, outside grill and picnic table...the dining light was just a bonus I guess.)  

Wider shot of the bathroom with the little crocheted rug.

Lots of storage, this is the closet in the back.  Stanley says it passes.

Another storage closet.  We added a couple drawers from Target into it as this camper doesn't really have many drawers.  They fit perfectly and are single units.  We can add more later if we want.

Now I feel better that I'm not just showing stock photos on the blog :-)


Time for a New Blog


 When isn't a good time to start a new blog.  I often wonder how many unused and unseen blogs are out there floating around.  I am starting this one because as of this past weekend we sold our 1998 Aliner that we restored and my current blog was really all about that camper and I realized I needed/wanted one that was more focused on our camping adventures, insight, experiences and finds rather than just one camper.  My husband and I have been camping since before we were born.  It's in our blood and we love to get out there.  We spent most of our lives together camping in tents until a few years ago when we rescued a rotting Aliner from the salvage yard and restored it.  We loved that camper so much and spent a lot of time doing it over and documenting for future workers of similar projects, see our Aliner Blog here. But long before we stumbled across her we had been looking at full size travel trailers.  Every year we go to the camp show and countless times we've dragged our poor children through camper showrooms to never actually buy one.  Well this year that changed.  We went to the Boston show, second time, usually we just go to the free Worcester show but since they combined it with the boat show it's fairly useless.  Mike's cousin sells at our local RV retailer so we had someone we felt comfortable dealing with and we finally came across the right camper for us.  It had everything we wanted as far as bed space, styling and weight.  The show price was great, we were able to get a little more off of that too plus I just happened to get a raise at work that would cover the rest of the financing.  The perfect storm.  We bought a 2012 Keystone Bullet 230BHS with the Godiva interior.  Our first trip is planned for April, what has become our annual trip to Myrtle Beach.  In the meantime we've been packing her up, outfitting her with storage solutions, new sheets and playing with all the goodies and learning how everything works on a big camper.  My parents had trailers while we were growing up but of course I never ever paid any attention to what they did to them, lol.  We've also been watching lots of YouTube videos and who would ever thought we'd be thankful someone made a video about how to dump and maintain your black tank?   Here are some stock pictures of our new camper and the floor layout.  Oddly enough I haven't taken any yet of our actual camper but I'm looking forward to many pictures, updates and memories in it.
Interior looking toward the front.  This is a stock photo ours is a slightly different color scheme.

Stock Photo of bathroom.

Stock photo of bunk area.  I already made new sheets for both bunks. So expensive to buy RV sheets....and they're smaller, WTH?

Dinette slide out.  Ours has an upgraded light fixture and different color scheme, including dark brown legs on the table, thankfully.