Selling the Camper

 This isn’t a poem but a few weeks ago we had decided to sell our little T@b camper. We just didn’t get out enough in it we reasoned even though we enjoy it immensely when we do! We called it our “rolling cabin in the woods” since we loved taking it to out-of-the-way places of peace and quiet surrounded by trees. 

So we decided to take it out one last time to Siloam Springs State Park our favorite spot and about 45 minutes from our home. The minute we pulled into the camping area with its tall majestic pines my heart was just full of we have to keep this!! We settled down into the area for the next 27 hours which was all we could do since we needed to return to responsibilities as usual.

We rode our e-bikes. We walked the wooded trails. We watched for the eclipse.  We listened to the sounds of the birds. We listened to the quiet. We made a roaring fire and cooked a lovely tin foil dinner over it. We sat. We talked. We smelled the pines. Then we snuggled into our cozy camper for the night and woke up to towering pines and more quiet.

All plans to sell the camper vaporized into the beautiful sky above. We came home refreshed and more in love than ever. So we only had 27 hours! We had 27 hours of bliss and peace and quiet and each other! I’d say that’s pretty great! When we informed our kids of our decision to keep the camper out darling daughter-in-law Erin texted this to me. Erin was going to take photos of the inside of the camper a couple of days later to get ready to sell

I texted and told her I was canceling it.

Here’s her adorable hilarious beautifully worded reply:

“Cancel the shoot. Keep the camper. It’s only money. And that’s 2-3 weeks of pure bliss and memories. That’s a lot!

It also represents possibility. So you don’t even know the plans you’re missing and canceling in getting rid of it.

You guys are available to a lot of people, that’s the life you’ve created and it’s so beautiful. But I love that you have this camper, that’s perfectly sized for the two of you. It’s this little nugget you can pack up, drive into the middle of the woods, and be together in.

I LOVE THE CAMPER.

You have to keep the camper because I want to do this one day with John when we are older (to have a camper to run away and adventure in) so you and Gentz are what is called a “log” in manifestation where, if you can’t get the thing you’re manifesting yet- you look for someone who has it and jump on their “log” going upstream to your camper.”

I love that all of our kids wanted us to keep it. They joyed in the fact that we got out into the woods and away from everything and maybe like Erin they knew someday they would have that kind of freedom to get away without any worries for 27 hours or so every once in a while!