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I am not sure why I stopped recording our summer (or winter) camper travels, but I’m sure it doesn’t matter. (COVID certainly was a major block!) I may be speaking to myself, so…to myself and those who still have a link to this blog…I will update my camping news!

We decided to upgrade our camping experiences to something a little more expansive and comfortable. We thought about replacing our Truck House Adventure camper, but the only camper we really felt was an upgrade was the Big Foot, and its weight was pretty well going to force us to trade our 2005 GMC Sierra Duramax 3500 to a newer model with larger GVWR. The costs for the 2 new units would have been prohibitive! So, last Easter of 2022, after visiting the Armstrong plant for BF, we stopped at Chilliwack to take a look at trailers – at the Escape Trailer Company.

We were sold! We decided to get on the rather long wait-list for a newly designed 23’ trailer, but since the prototype was not finished we informed Escape that we would opt for the E 5.0TA (fifth wheel) – whichever came first when our name came up on the wait-list. That final commitment – “Your turn” – came in early January and we booked production of our new E 5.0TA which was completed on May 23. We picked it up in Chilliwack on May 24 and proceeded to head east to the Okanagan Valley, where we spent 2 nights at a very empty South Beach Gardens in Penticton. (I used the empty sites to practice backing up into various sites, and then we had a wonderful time sharing notes with my cousin Jan and her husband Darrell who had been instrumental in our purchase of the Escape.)

On Friday the 26th of May we headed to Nk’Mip Campground on Osoyoos Lake where we joined 156 other Escape Trailer owners for a “Rally in the Valley”. Great company! Shared food! Fun Entertainment! And we were able to visit many trailers to examine their modifications.

Here is the new “Truck House – Jr.”

We have had a great few days getting to know our new road home. Tomorrow we will head back to Chilliwack to get a couple of small things looked to on Wednesday as well as get a reconfiguration of our Anderson Hitch.

Many happy greetings to any of you who still hold the link to this blog! I will be sending more pics of this unit soon!

Best wishes and we hope that we will be able to show our house to many of you soon.

Sandy and Tony Dobson