A couple years ago we fell in love.  Not, not with each other, that happened eons ago.  This time we fell in love with a cute little tent trailer called a SylvanSport Go.  Their motto is “Coolest. Camper. Ever.”

For some years prior we had dreamed of getting back to some kind of camping.  When young we did a fair share of backpacking, but our aging hips, knees, etc. just aren’t up to that anymore.  And the whining…, well, let’s just say you don’t want to be around M & T dragging their sorry butts up a trail.

We have a tent, but don’t seem to handle sleeping on the ground as well as we used to either.  We had done the occasional looking at various kinds of small RV’s, trailers, etc. but never found anything we really liked, or anything really small enough (for us, the smaller the better – big means more gas and less maneuverability).  It also needed to be inexpensive (MT pockets and all that).

Then one day we ran across the Go.  I think it originally was in an article in the newspaper, but it could have been just web surfing.  As soon as we saw it, we knew that was what we were looking for.  A HUGE bonus was not having to go out and buy a tow vehicle.  It is so light and small that it does not require a big SUV to pull it.  The website actually showed one being towed by a Mini Cooper, so we crossed our fingers that our Mini would in fact be adequate.

It still took some time before we got to the point where we felt like we could afford the splurge.  Spring 2011 we finally put our order in.  Unfortunately there was a backlog and we didn’t take delivery until fall.  So it has been sitting in our driveway since then sulking, accusing, and even snarking at us once in a while, wanting so badly to get out CAMPING.

Naturally after we got back from our Europe cruise, the Seattle weather turned wet again, making it hard to plan a maiden voyage weekend.  Finally, however, we spotted a weekend that looked both marginal and free of other plans, so we put it on the calendar.  Oh, the joy!  And we were happy too.