Yes, we're seeing amazing things. The Badlands, herds of Bison and Bears, National monuments, Josh at Reptile Gardens nearly getting attacked by several crocodiles, Joe spitting out his spample at the Spam museum, and we can take pictures of those things. But if that's all we wanted to do, we would have driven our own car, taken a train or a plane. But no, we took an RV. We wanted an experience. So I wanted to talk about what its like to live on a 33' bus for 7 nights and 8 days with the Winer family. And that, my friends, can never be captured by film.
When we first got the good ol' Aurora, we thought there had been a mistake since it was so much larger and luxurious than what we had thought we ordered. It was a few feet longer, had two more pop-outs (a magical feature I will explain), had two bathrooms instead of one, and just had a certain kind of classiness we had not expected. (After all, it is class a).
After the thrill of meeting her and Dad being able to drive her without killing us all, we each began to see a few rough spots. They had promised us an extra bed, but this model had only three, so me and Catherine had to sleep together on the couch pull out most nights. The biggest window's curtain is broken, so we have to consistently fiddle with it whenever we want some air. Also we broke the....uh....we don't even know what it's called! Some tacky window fixture that's super annoying. There was no iPod hookup so we had to go out and buy our own. But really those are our only complaints.
The best part about taking traveling in an RV is not having to pack and unpack constantly whenever we pull into a hotel. The car transforms into your hotel! Thanks to the magical POP-OUTS! Pop-outs are sections or boxes inside of the RV that when you park for the night push out and create an extra 5-10 feet of space. Its pretty bizarre seeing your couch and bed slide away, revealing fresh carpet. Every time we pop out we forget how much space it creates, because when driving in a RV for sometimes 5 hours or more you get used to the space fast. It always amazes us. And then the RV really does look like a real, tacky, motel room! So it surprises us again when we pull the pop outs in and all of a sudden the walking space is one foot wide. And then we drive.
The most surreal thing is that, until we get home and break off into our rooms and friend's houses, we have been within 20 feet of eachother for a whopping 192 hours straight. No alone time, no closed doors. Straight up family bonding.
Its a lifestyle I'm beginning to get used to. Can't wait to see what its like to get back to a home that won't roll away, and a house that you can finally poop in. Sleeping in my own bed will be nice, too.
Puh-sicely.
