protecting our investment

Living in Florida we endure lots of rain and high wind storms. They can come on out of nowhere and can be pretty intense. Where we have the Spartan placed, it’s sort of nestled in the trees on the side of the yard, which we really like, but has always made us nervous because one…

vents

  Our poor vents were rusted beyond repair, full of dirt and old bugs so we decided not to reuse them. Below are the steps we took to remove the vents. For starters, we removed the handle. Then we removed the four screws on the inside. We couldn’t pull the screen down into the camper, so we decided…

digging for treasures

The first day, we decided to pull everything out so we could take stock of what we had. All of the panelling, drawers, and wooden pieces were too rotten and bug infested to re-use, but we kept most of it to use as templates. You can see in the picture below our decimated garden area which we…

first sight

We drove down to the space coast on a Sunday afternoon determined to bring her home (our eagerness probably didn’t help us negotiate.) We thought it would be empty based on craigslist pictures, but to our surprise it was full of old goodies. After the ole kick the tire we said that’ll do and loaded her up….