I don’t want to say I hustled my nephew out the door on his last morning at my place (internship ended last week), as he had been a delightful house guest. So as a courtesy, I waited 15 whole minutes after he left before I started piling RV stuff in the guest bedroom. I should have taken a photo – the room looks like a cross between the Marketplace at IKEA, and the Outdoor Department at Canadian Tire.
Everyone is giving me ideas of what to buy, and my incredibly generous friends who spent the last two years in their own RV touring North America have been giving me tons of their old equipment. But I don’t want to do too much shopping up front for two reasons: 1) solo travelling means I am going to have a lot of free time on my hands, so why not use that time to shop; and 2) picking things and learning what’s needed will be half the fun! (Edit 31 May 2025: fun? Hunh.)
So apart from one indulgent trip to IKEA with a friend (that’s my Strandskata laundry basket, which is going to dictate the colour scheme in the motorhome), I am just making lists to fulfil once we’re underway.