General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/what did I learn today? Visit with friends!!!, 1 by Bettypauze

Bettypauze wrote:
Remember I was telling you all that I was looking for a mini trailer to tow behind my little car? In order to do so it would have to be the type they tow behind motorcycles, nothing more than a glorified tent, but I'd be up off the ground.

Looked at the price and not much under $4,000..little out of my league, said to the good Lord, if I'm meant to have one he'd give me the means to do so...

Went looking at all the models on the internet, gee I want one..saw in London, Ontario a man had one for a little over $2,000..would have gone and picked it up but I asked for a few more photo's and from those photo's I could see it wasn't the best buy..

Was sad, thought I had me a trailer, so I've been looking on the internet dreaming...

My brother Bernie got part of the back deck done but ran out of a few supplies, most I ordered from TimBrr but another piece he needed they didn't have..

On my way home tonight I decided to stop at Bernie's and get a piece so at least if I went shopping I'd know what I was looking for..dropped into a few establishments and no go then I remembered Belanger Aluminum...if they didn't have it then doubt anyone else would..

Explained to the owner what I was looking for, he said he thought he had it, said no but had something he thought was better and he'd give it to me, no charge..imagine...well as it turned out it wouldn't work but he would be able to order it in..off he went to return the item to back storage..

in the meantime...

this is getting to be a long story right?

Again, in the meantime, a young woman came out of her office and said 'hello Betty' was a young girl that did some work for me when I was at the Township, her name was Heather and my children's age..nice girl..we got gabbing and she went on to tell me that they have a trailer in Wildwood Park (on the same bay I had my house) we gabbed some more and I told her about my wanting to purchase a travel camper, mini travel camper, kind they use with motorcycles, said I would order one shortly and get it in the spring...

She picks up a camera, shows it to me, says 'do you know what is on this film' jesting, 'nope' well Paul my boss just brought in his camera, asked me to download and put a mini camper in the Marketeer for sale!' omg/omg I got so excited, she calls her boss Paul out of back area and tells him I'm looking for the exact same thing he's wanting to sell...now he's excited...I ask him when can I see it, he wasn't ready to close up shop but Heather offered to stay another 1/2 hr. so Paul could drive me to his house and show me the unit...

So now we go into his back yard..omg, it's the cutest mini camper, same as I was looking for, not a mark on it, well ok...one hinge had a touch of brown which I think is rust and can be replace...it's the Elite model which has all the bells and whistles..he has me open it up, level it, set it up and all it took was about 8 minutes, had I know how to do it maybe I could have done it in 4 or 5 minutes...

Yikes, this is just what I want...now comes my question, what are you asking??? I almost fainted when he said $1,000. I yelled "SOLD" so he was going away today and tomorrow but will be back Sunday afternoon, if he's back early enough he'll deliver it, if not, it will be Monday night as I don't have a hitch on my vehicle yet..so ask me if I'm excited..sure am!!!

the Elite has a stainless steel wrack in front of the unit for a cooler or storage box and on top of the unit it has racks so I can carry misc. supplies...only thing that didn't come with it was the mattress..told me he just purchased a good quality memory foam for it and would keep it..what a bargain, so I'll purchase the memory foam for it this week...
Says it has a table also..he showed me another piece, calls it a bra so while you travel the stones don't chip the piece...

Will I go camping??? don't know..just wanted one..lol...mostly for when I do my travelling in USA, can bring my bed, food and crafts with me..

So it's been an exciting afternoon...knew the Lord would lead me to a camper..thought it might take awhile but he saw fit to get me one today!!!

This is the leaflet that he got with the unit when it was purchased.