Author: Traci

We’re Found!

May 13, 2016

Oh my…. you guys…. oh my. It feels like we just made the big leagues. Ok, maybe not the big big leagues. It’s possible we made the amateur leagues… or at least division A college level. Whatever. We’re on a roster. We got put on a list.  One of the blogs I follow puts out…

Original 1 pager

May 3, 2016

Nothing says old school quite like the original pamphlet.  We’re featured on page 3. 1985Winnebago For more details about the set-up, check out the ’86 guide. 86-Chieftain-bro Still looking for the original owners manual…

Maiden Voyage

April 30, 2016

Scott bought The Chief in southern California.  We are setting up residency in Texas for a whole bunch of reasons… and we will learn to love it there but it’s highly doubtful we will ever be Texans in the true sense of the word.  You folks are a special breed of people (said with all…

The Grey Beards

April 30, 2016

I’m not gonna lie, we know we don’t know a lot about a lot of things.  That’s some critical self-awareness right there going into a year living a new lifestyle in an RV we don’t know.  So I’ve assembled what I call our “Wise Cadre of Experts” (shortened to the ‘WCE’ for convenience).  I also…

Buying the Beast

April 30, 2016

After 3+ years of looking at RVs, discussing what we thought were “requirements” and “nice to haves”, hemming and hawing over space and size and gas vs. diesel, we finally pulled the trigger.  We bought a cherry Winnebago Chieftain 33.       She has four Beds, 1 single above drivers chairs, Couch folds out…