The First Year

We spent the first summer of owning "The Navion" thoroughly enjoying it with our children and grandchildren. We were away every weekend and with Dales schedule a lot of weekdays also. We spent time in the B.C. interior near Princeton, tubing and rafting on the Similkameen River with our Family.

Our beautiful spot along the Similkameen River.

We took two grown daughters, our two still at home teenagers, and six grandchildren under the age of 12 for a week. Once again we used the backroads and found a wonderful spot on a forestry road right along the river. With no facilities, we depended on "The Navion" for all our necessities of life and it didn't fail us. We had to head into town on the fourth day to sani-dump and fill the water tank  but we were also low on groceries so it was a good reason to go anyhow. We just pulled her out of "Tent Town" and along with the mini-van we headed in! With our last trailer we were lucky to go all of three days without having to refill and we've never had that many depending on it!

"Camping" in Luxury - full hook-ups, pool, mini golf, video games, etc!

We spent time in Washington State, in both serviced and non serviced site's, Porteau Cove on the Sea to Sky Hwy and many other places that summer.
In December we once again went south to Southern California.We had my friend Gloria travel with us and there was plenty of room.  We had found it uncomfortable watching the main TV from the dinette and since we spend a lot of our time eating outdoors we were on the lookout for a sofa/bed couch of some sort to make it comfier.

New Sofa Bed - lift 1/2 way with the strap for storage
and all the way to flip into a double bed.

We found one that fit the bill at Camping World in San Martin, CA. It pulls forward and then the back drops to form the bed and the whole underneath is storage - we wouldn't have the loss of storage we had with the dinette. It was on sale from $900. to $499. While waiting for them to bring one in from the warehouse out back we learned they didn't have any more but we could have the floor model and I bargained another $100. off (and no tax as we were heading to Oregon and could buy one there tax free) - added bonus! We had to dismantle the dinette and store it under the bed and behind the new sofa until we got home. We then advertised it on Craigslist and got $350. for it. We now had the floorpan that we had originally liked and it only cost $50. - lucky us!
One of the worst things happened to us on the way down - while plugged into an electricity site we had a power surge and it blew the Microwave part of the oven and both TV's - the original one and the NEW one we had just installed in the back bedroom. No surge-protector - a lesson we learned the hard way and you will see remedied in a future blog.