Several years ago I learned that my grandparents had an old motor home that they weren't really using anymore. Since that day I had been dropping hints about that fact that Josh and I would LOVE to have that motor home someday. Well, last August my grandpa decided that he wanted it out of their yard so we got a phone call saying if we wanted it we'd better come and get it. Whohoo!!

Off we went to North Branch (which is like almost 4 hours away) and drove home a 1977 Ford Shasta Motor home.

We made it all the way home - and we laughed pretty much the entire way because it was just so funny to look over and see us driving this huge thing! From the outside it is definitely still 1970's and the inside was panelled and carpeted (eww).As soon as we got home Josh started ripping into the inside and the outside. The cab was a little rusted so it got sanded down and repainted. The inside got the carpet ripped out, primed and then eventually painted. There was some leakage happening above the cab so Josh had to rip the entire thing apart and replace a bunch of the wood and then put it back together - that was the longest part I think. We also replaced the cabinet doors with some free doors I picked up at work (I work for a cabinet manufacturer...came in handy) . Josh also put down new linoleum squares on the floor along with trim for the baseboard (he never does anything part way). One of the owners at the lumberyard where he works has just finished making us a new table which is in the process of getting covered in polyurethane. I'll post some pictures of that soon. My grandma made us new curtains which still need to be hung and we got lots of fun camping stuff for Christmas!

Since we didn't get it until August and the work was taking a long time we didn't go anywhere last fall. However, we have booked a spot over on Lake Michigan the last weekend of May so the push has been on to finally get the thing finished!

Oh - and don't worry. We didn't mess with the coolness of the outside. Driving down the road you will still see the fabulous vintage 1977 motor home with this piece of sweetness on the back!