{"id":22267,"date":"2011-04-20T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T03:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2016-09-17T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T09:18:49","slug":"friends-and-rvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/friends-and-rvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and RVs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jody needed to run an errand in Calgary today so I came along for the ride. We stopped in Mossleigh to visit Donna. She is working at Aspen Crossing<\/a> this summer and gave us a tour of the place. It combines a campground, a superb gift shop, a restaurant (great Sunday brunch apparently), cabins, and more. I was particularly impressed by the tour of the caboose that was converted into a luxury cabin that would be a great motorhome layout! Donna is very enthusiastic about camphosting in the nearly new campground (this year will be the second in operation). It was so, so, so good to see her and Ken, but I didn’t get to visit with Midnight.<\/p>\n

Our visit done, Jody and I pushed on to the town of High River where we spent hours climbing into and out of travel trailers, fifth wheels, and a few motorhomes. I’d never spent so much time in a bumper pull trailer before and was astounded by some of the layouts!<\/p>\n

Before I get into my discovery of the day, I have to say that I have finally decided on what my next rig is going to be. I’ve vacillated between getting excited about fifth wheels<\/a> and considering a B+<\/a>, but I finally came down to earth and made a decision. I want to downsize and I can do that two ways: going smaller or going bigger. So, my next rig would be one of two choices.<\/p>\n

The first choice, going smaller would mean going down to a B and seriously reducing my cargo. I’d have to be in the mode that this is my only vehicle and that everything has to be prepped for travel.<\/p>\n

The second choice, going bigger would actually be going smaller in terms of over-all rig length without sacrificing my current lifestyle of having an apartment with a car: a toy hauler super C motorhome, such as those made by Haulmark<\/a>, with a Smart Car in the garage.<\/p>\n

So, all that to say that if I’m going down to a B, then I’ve found it. It’s a Libero by Leisure Travel<\/a>. It has a bed in the back, full bath and kitchen, and the dinette in the front is definitely usable as a desk, plus it has the solid construction of a high-end unit.<\/p>\n

One thing I find neat when I look at RVs is that I see ways in which I could improve Miranda but I don’t get a burning desire to replace her yet. What can I say, the old gal is home!<\/p>\n

\"inside<\/a>

inside of the dining car, which was PM Diefenbaker’s ‘western car’!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Vote<\/a>

Vote for John G. Diefenbaker<\/p><\/div>\n

\"letter<\/a>

letter from Diefenbaker (about a week after my birth!) about the state of the Canadian economy and how disgraceful Parliament was (nothing changes in this country!)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"exterior<\/a>

exterior of Diefenbaker’s car<\/p><\/div>\n

\"inside<\/a>

inside of the cozy caboose cabin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Donna<\/a>

Donna and Jody in the cabin \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

\"shiny<\/a>

shiny stove<\/p><\/div>\n

\"kitchen\"<\/a>

kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"love<\/a>

love the loft: you climb a ladder to an area where they will put a reading chair, then climb up to the bunk!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"bathroom<\/a>

bathroom sink<\/p><\/div>\n

\"shower<\/a>

shower stall with gorgeous natural stone<\/p><\/div>\n

\"all<\/a>

all the door pulls are railway spikes!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"exterior<\/a>

exterior of the caboose cabin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"speeder<\/a>

speeder (Jody is obsessed with these things)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"caboose<\/a>

caboose that may one day be used as a shuttle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jody<\/a>

Jody ‘driving’ the speeder<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I had to take a picture of the interior of this toy hauler: IT IS THE UGLIEST RV I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jody<\/a>

Jody and I thought that this shoe space was clever!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"like<\/a>

like the look of the fake stone, but it’s not practical<\/p><\/div>\n

\"LOVE<\/a>

LOVE this livingroom in the top of the fifth wheel!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"garbage<\/a>

garbage can with exterior access could be entrance to kitty litter box!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"exterior<\/a>

exterior access to the can (sorry, forgot to rotate)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jody needed to run an errand in Calgary today so I came along for the ride. We stopped in Mossleigh to visit Donna. She is working at Aspen Crossing this summer and gave us a tour of the place. It combines a campground, a superb gift shop, a restaurant (great Sunday brunch apparently), cabins, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,1083,632,1192,1226,1258,635,5,3],"tags":[853,1447,804,713],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-calgary-alberta-canada-travel","category-canada","category-high-river","category-lethbridge","category-mossleigh","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","tag-accommodation","tag-cats-in-an-rv","tag-history-museums","tag-transport-museums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}