A Very Short Story of a Trailer and a Dream

We bought our trailer in August, 2014, the year before Mark retired.

When Mark decided he was going to retire I asked him if there was anything in particular he wanted to do with his time. “Camp more,” he said.

I loved the idea. BUT my days of sleeping on the floor of a tent were over. Result: a 25-foot trailer, new to us.

I haunted Craigslist for weeks. We drove all over south and central Michigan looking for the right used trailer. In the end, I was the first person to see an ad from 6 miles down the road. We saw it and we bought it. We love it. We still love it five years later, and this year we did renovations! More on that at a later date.

My original idea was a blog devoted to camping in the Great Lakes. It’s still my plan! But wait, there’s more: My poetry muse has been dormant for years, my freelance business doesn’t keep me very busy anymore, and I want a creative outlet to occupy that hole in my heart. And so here we are.

I’ve started this first entry many times over the past five years, only to decide it didn’t say what I wanted it to say. But I’m not sure what I want to say, beyond that I love the Great Lakes, and camping, and memories. So this blog will be about those things, along with the minutiae of life, because that’s what I love to read: the daily lives of others and their memories.

Let’s spend the Winter doing that, shall we? And when Spring comes, camping will commence!

Bunnie, (aka my BFB), in our BRAND new trailer!