**Warning** This post contains a BUNCH of Pictures

It's a good thing that no one reads this blog! I haven't had time to post in forever! Unfortunately it's not because I've been busy doing fun things either. Work is taking up way to much of my time - but since I don't want to think or talk about work when I'm not there...I won't write about it either!

You met Shasta here and a couple weekends ago we finally took the Shasta out on her inaugural trip. And we made it there and back home! We just went a couple hours West of here to South Haven - - right on Lake Michigan! Which is by far my favorite body of water...

We had a slight bit of trouble on the trip there...minor overheating, but after stopping for a short time and letting her cool down we figured that we were just driving too fast for the old girl. Once we slowed down a bit we successfully completed our trip and also had no problems on the drive home!

We had a good time with my parents who took along their pop-up camper. Here are some pictures of the completed Shasta as well as a few from our trip!

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!