My wife and I are 50+ empty nesters who are getting back into camping. We started tent camping 30 years ago with our 1st son. Since then we had another son, a tent camper, 25' bunkhouse TT and then a 27' motorhome. When the boys married and went their separate ways we bought a 2nd home at the beach and thought that we had settled down. In April of 07' the misses was diagnosed as stage 3 breast cancer

. 2 years later she had gone through chemo, radiation and 7 surgeries. In 09' she was recovered enough to start riding her motorcycle

. She hit a patch of stones and ended up in a ditch with 11 broken bones

. 6 months of rehab and she was "almost" normal again. Keeping in mind that none of us are truely normal. Now, we had a 6x12 Haulmark cargo trailer set up for 2 motocycles sitting in the driveway taking up space. I had found this site last year and lurked for quite some time. I am in the process of converting the CT into a camper. We have the itch again to travel. After all we have gone through the last few years we have decided to start the "bucket list" since you just don't know how long you really have. We travel with 2 dogs. A JUG and a Malteschon. Both mixed breeds and our surrogate children. I will take and post pictures shortly of where I am in the conversion. I want to thank all the members

for some of the very interesting and some truly unique ideas that are shared here. I hope to be able to add something to the discussion in the future.