Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:02 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Travelling w/ 4 year old
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Bill,
My granddaugther was about that age when I got my camper. She has
loved every moment of life on the road with me. I spend about a month
a year in the westy and she goes with me about one third of the time.
I made sure I had some good stuff on the iPod for her to listen to
(aesops fables, etc.) and music, crayons, drawing paper, toy horses
and we'd head off. Now she's ten, and besides raising the poptop she
can pretty much do everything for herself. I even took her and the
camper to an abandoned airport and taught her to drive it! I'm talking
a five speed diesel westy here.
Nowadays, she cooks supper for me, at least part of it. Our next
outing is the day after thanksgiving when we are taking a hovercraft
up a small river with falls, camping in the westy of course. She picks
the menus these days.
The point of all this: don't worry about anything. Take her and go for it.
Jim
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com> wrote:
> So here's the deal, I've had my 86 Westy for 3 1/2 years now. I don't put many miles on it, it gets alot of use hauling lumber and other crap from Lowes. Each summer we take it locally to camp and what not on weekends that we have nothing planned. I've never taken it more than 5 or 6 hours away.
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> Well I gotta bug up my butt to go see the Wanee Festival ( http://www.waneefestival.com/ ) in Florida this spring. Take a week or so to take our time driving back and see some friends in the Carolinas. It is a 15 hours straight drive and I know that is out of the question with a 4 year old, we'd break it up in two chunks, use a motel on the ride down. We've gone to North Carolina once with our daughter when she was two and she did great, we did it in a comfy 80 mph crusin' Passat. Oh yeah we live in western Pennsylvania.
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> So here are my concerns;
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> Will travelling this distance with a 4 year old be more of a pain than it is fun?
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> I'm not worried about the festival she loves that stuff.
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> I'm concerned about taking the van that far away, I maintain it pretty good and it has never let me down but that is a haul. I'd probably get someone to check it out for me and of course pay for the Premium AAA. My other option is to take on of the cars and pack a tent and all that crap, hope for no rain.
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> I'd just like to hear some varying perspectives on this before I reach a decision.
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> Ryan
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