Full Time Camping Life: enjoying nature, family & friends with our 2 cats
Our dream has come true… In 2023, we sold almost everything and moved into our 5th wheel camper and started full time camping life.
We have always enjoyed the outdoors, seeing new things, visiting family & friends, and meeting new people (well at least Kate does :-)). We set a goal to live full time in our camper to do even more of what we enjoy.
In 2022, we found a reasonably priced 5th wheel camper that would meet most of our needs with lots of modifications and some repairs. To be honest all campers need some modifications. We made a list of must haves and wants. Then John spent 6 months making the modifications and repairs. These changes included
- Relocate dining room table to the corner and replace chandelier
- Cat proof the trailer & add cat doors
- Add shelving to all the cabinets, dressers, closet, and pantry (twice)
- Fix the many manufacturing flaws such supports not put in properly, shelves not screwed into stubs, replacing caulking, putting the refrigerator back in the wall properly
- Bedroom closest modified to become cleanable cat litter box and storage closet
- Extendable TV stand, reinforced TV support, cable and power conduit, air vents, and hidden storage cabinets for the Living Room Entertainment center
- Game drawers to support the Living Room Entertainment Center/Fireplace sag
- Outdoor cooking cabinet modified to become outdoor chairs & bug tent storage area
- Outdoor cabinets redesigned to hold all the needed maintenance supplies
- Adding bathroom shelf with towel hooks and improving the shelves in medicine cabinet
- Adding a secondary 8-foot sewer hose storage under the trailer
- Swapped the built-in ladder for a stow-able short person ladder
- “Cripple-proofed” the steps to keep Kate from ending up paralyzed
Our Team
Mackie
CleoPetra
(Cleo)
Kate
John