MY MEMORIES

Building Projects (continued)

A few years before I retired, we bought a 5th wheel RV camping trailer and a 3/4 ton Dodge pickup with a V10 gas engine. The camper had 3 slide outs that provided extra internal space when parked at a campground. We traveled in that camper each summer all over the Midwest and even to Florida and Gulf Shores. We found a way to have a pull-thru parking place just east of the house tucked into the woods. To protect the camper from the hot summer sun, we built a giant RV-port similar to a carport except it was 12 feet high, 14 feet wide, and 40 feet long. The roof was supported by 10 16-foot 4x6 posts with 4 feet of each cemented into the ground. The RV sat on a 14x40 foot concrete slab that had enough steel in it so the slab never had a crack. The RV-port had an electrical outlet to power up the RV when parked by the house. We began using the parked camper as our guest facilities, thus giving them complete privacy in evenings and early mornings. As before there were railings along the long sides of the RV-port that matched the house, gazebo, and library.

We blew the engine in my Triumph TR7 one day going to work. It took about 2 years to get it running again. When we got it home again it was parked in the garage next to the Cadillac and the pickup had to sit outside. That would just not do, so we built a carport on the south side of the RV-port to park the pickup in. By this time we had upgraded to a 4-door 1-ton diesel Dodge pickup.

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