Anticipation

It's just after 5:00 in the morning and here I am excited about the Big Day. Big because my new (well, new to me) RV arrives today. It's being driven here to Maryland from Pennsylvania by it's current owner. I was going to name it GoJoe, but my son suggests that it needs something more substantial, more fitting to my "journey." We'll see.

What is it about a tiny house on wheels that has so much appeal? I don't know. When I was a kid in the 50s, pictures of covered wagons or articles about converted buses in Popular Science would send me on flights of fancy about living mobile. My dad had this bug, too. He used to make drawings of the kind of travelling unit he'd like to have. Later, he owned a VW camper van and a succession of small travel trailers.

But anyway, GoJoe (not it's real name) is a gem. It's a 2003 Lazy Daze Class C RV. Lazy Daze is a quality-built product from a somewhat quirky company in southern California. They've been building these things there since 1956! You can buy them only from the company in their one location. No dealers, no middle men. To get a new one, you go (or call or write) to headquarters and make your order. When it's ready several months later, you go there and pick it up.

Since that's the way it works, most Lazy Daze RVs tend to be on the West Coast. Finding one in the East is not that easy. So when I saw this brown beauty posted on the Internet in nearby Pennsylvania, I had to go take a look. And one look sealed the deal.

I'll probably be standing out in the driveway when GoJoe (not it's real name, really) comes tooling up the street later this morning. I'll let you know how it goes.