Well, not exactly.

As I write this, we are currently in Seattle living in a luxurious home that belongs to a family member, with a beautiful view of Lake Washington and Mount Rainier from the backyard, solar-heated swimming pool, and a lovely new kitchen from which incredible meals are turned out every evening. Definitely worth driving 3,000 miles across the United States for!

However, after our last night’s experience with the instability of our tent in very windy weather, we decided to give up the idea of tent camping our way back home. Instead, we have returned our tent and several other pieces of camping equipment we won’t be needing anymore, thanks to Amazon’s and REI’s generous return policies, and instead we’re doing something quite novel for us: we will stay in motels on our return trip. I’m hoping that we’ll be able to find some suitable old-fashioned motor inns where we can park our car right in front of our door, and forego the lobby/elevator/endless corridors to get to your room that you find in most of the big chains. A bit of 50’s decor would be nice too.

So, even though we no longer own our “tent” home, we are grateful that we still have our Sylvansport GO camper waiting for us back at out Lake Monticello home. After our experience with putting up and taking down a tent (that didn’t always want to stay up), setting up our GO is now going to feel like a walk in the park. And we’re optimistic that by next summer there will be a much larger network of charging stations across the country so that it will be easier for us to take the GO without worrying about finding a charging station when needed.