I don’t remember much about the trip as I was just four years old, but I do remember the teardrop trailer that my dad, George Nelson, built for our family’s trip to Oregon in 1945. Above is a picture of my mother, Arlene, preparing a meal alongside the road, for Dad, my little sister, Susan, and me.
Since then my husband and I have traveled in a 16 foot Kenskill trailer, a pickup and overhead camper, a fifth-wheel, a class C Fleetwood motorhome and our present Winnebago class A. The RV mode of travel enabled us to give our three sons the great experience of seeing and enjoying much of the beauty of the west.
Submitted by Sandra Fenske of Goleta, CA as a part of the RV Centennial Celebration “Share Your Favorite RV Memory” contest.
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Geoffrey Pruett
My first trip in an “RV” was at 8 or 9 and the rig was a retired moving van. My folks sleep over the cab and by brother and I on the floor in sleeping bags when we went to Eagle Fern Park near Estacada Oregon. We fished for crawdads with old onion sacks and bacon rind and actually caught some, the released them back into that cold creek water. The only door on the back of the rig was a well worn canvas curtain with no way to close it off completly. My mother was not thrilled and that was our only trip in that unit. It was 1965 (15 years later) before my mother relented and they bought a fixed mount pick up camper (crawl thru, not walk thru) that blew the states mind. It required two license plates, one for the truck and one for the camper. When my new wife and I became owners of this unit it had 80,000 on the clock and on a trip into Canada we celebrated at the roadside with bubbly having a brand new used camper with straight 0’s on the odometer. The back carried a sign of a turtle in straw hat and sun glasses saying “Thundering turtle flat out and rolling” as second range flat out was the only practical way to cross mountains. We passed one camper on a uphill during our time, a Bedford Dormobile pop top made in England and still wearing the English plates.
Bob Russell
Brings back memories. My folks had a 1947 store-bought Teardrop mfg by the Kit Co, I inherited it in the early 70’s when they graduated to a motorhome. I passed it along after several years of great camping and outings as a Boy Scout leader.
wayne b kopinski
What a great photo and great memorys of the good ole days, my dad had a 47 plymouth sedan just like the one in your picture, I was 5 at the time and remember laying on the back shelf as we drove along, no seat belts back then, thank you for sharing,
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