Nope.  Nothing to do with aquaponics this time.  No, this is something totally different.  For those of you who have been following our family lately, this is something we (that is, Brenda and I) have been dreaming about recently.

Yep.  That's right.  A travel trailer.

It's ours.  We got it about 3 weeks ago.  We don't know beans from applesauce about how the thing works, but we are learning.  It's a steep learning curve.  It's 16 feet long.  I know.  We were talking about getting a cute little old antique from the 50's or 60's.  The problem we kept running into was that the ones we could afford were junk.  The ones that were really nice, and were in really nice condition, and useable, were terribly expensive.  This one is nearly brand new.  It's only 3 years old, and the company that owned it hardly used it at all.  The toilet never got used at all.  We got it for half the price of a new one.  You just can't beat that kind of a deal.


It even has a microwave.

We took it in to an RV repair shop here in Springfield to have it checked over, since it hadn't been used for a while, and everything checked out good.  Brenda and I are going to try to take it to the lake over the weekend just to try it out sometime soon.  We are getting some RV books and videos to study to learn about how the thing works.  We need to get a membership in some RV clubs and campground memberships and stuff, so that we know where we can camp out when we travel.  We are thinking about doing some traveling when I retire next year.

The toilet will be quite an adventure the first time we use that.

The table folds up and then it makes up into a full-size bed for Brenda and I.  It has heat and A/C.  It also has a refrigerator and a stove.

It only weighs 2,000 pounds, so it will tow very easily behind the Land Cruiser.  Really, it doesn't weigh any more than the older antique trailers from the 50's and 60's and they didn't have all the nice things in them that this one has.  So, we are very pleased with this.