New sight

Even though Susan and I have been full-time RVers for coming up on three years, I’m still fascinated by the aspects of the life outside our own experience. As an example, we’re the typical retired couple trying out a different lifestyle; when I see an RV family, kids and all, I do have keen interest on how they make that work.

More usually, I take periodic walks around wherever we’re staying, just to see how many different types of rigs are there. (I provided a breakdown of the basic types here.) Over time, I thought I’d seen all the standard types except the pop-up camper … which is understandable, as that is more suited to, well, camping, rather than long-term occupation.

And then I saw something I’d never even considered, but that made sense once I spotted it: a horse trailer, with living quarters in the front end. That’s clearly a useful set-up, for people who travel with horses, but seems like a lot of extra space to tow around with you when you aren’t transporting horses. (Which these folks don’t appear to be. I mean, that would become apparent pretty quickly.)

So, surprises still make themselves felt. And there was another one, even before that, which I’ll go into within the next few days.