The Beginning

Kathy is a watercolor artist. She's been wanting to take a big step forward in her education and experience, so she registered to pursue a Fine Arts degree in the well-respected art department at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.  Ephraim is about 90 miles from our home on the Wasatch Front.  Too far for a daily commute, too close to pack up and relocate.  So we looked for a suitable apartment.  Big problem - apartments in the Ephraim area are very expensive, and hard to find.  So we purchased a 1995 22 foot Dutchmen camp trailer. Then we found a place to park it in a small trailer park a few miles north of Ephraim in a place Google Maps calls Mule Creek, although I've yet to hear a local refer to it that way.

The guy who sold us the trailer told us he'd had it checked and everything worked great.  Of course, anyone who tells you that about a 25 year old RV is lying.  So we went to work.  New laminate flooring was only about 1/3 installed.  We finished it.  Upholstery was very old and funky smelling.  Reupholster.  Awning was ripped and rotted. Remove and replace fabric. Hot water heater tank looked like a hand grenade went off in it, probably from not being drained and winterized.  Replace it.  (If only that were as easy as it sounds.)  Furnace sounded like a horror movie soundtrack when we turned it on.  Replace motor.  And then, on the maiden voyage, something flipped up from the road and demolished the entry door, leaving only the inner skin intact.  New door.  Ouch, RV doors are expensive.  It also left some rips in the new awning fabric.  We'll deal with that later.

So now, air up the tires (it did come with new tires), fill the propane tanks and head out.  It's time for the adventure to begin.