The Comfort of Home

People often think of camping as roughing it in the woods without any interaction with others for days and nights on end. Soggy tents, bumpy ground, cooking any morsel of food over the fire to bring some sense of fullness. They might picture camping in a beat up RV with the bumper falling off, surrounded by dark brown walls, stinky toilets, scratchy couches that you don’t really even want to sit on for fear of what might be lurking under the horrid pattern, and paper thin mattresses.

Now, I could say that it doesn’t happen overnight. That it takes a lot of work to make these rolling boxes truly feel like home, but I won’t. We knew pulling the rig into our driveway the first time, that this was going to be a second home. A memory maker and keeper for our family. Straight from the dealer, our brand new Starcraft was a breath of fresh air. It was not dripping in darkness and the color brown, but instead had a fresh and light feeling with bones that shouted, “This is your style!” We spent the first summer with the rig, traveling and enjoying the new Starcraft, making very little changes. However, in the winter months, it didn’t take much convincing to really bring home the sense of home. We chose to switch out our couch and dining benches for something more useful for our camping and family needs. This was our biggest project to date, but also something that I would do again in a heartbeat. It is what truly made the camper resemble home for us.