Amazing How Things Work Out

As the days to 2018's Honda Pioneer Takeover and Ride Royal Blue become less and less, I've been thinking about all that I have yet to do before we hit the road. Unfortunately, due to certain events, the list of "to do's" has grown by a lot since my family and I first decided we we're going to attend.

Originally, we intended and booked one of RRB's hillbilly cabins to stay in for the three nights we would be there. The plan then was to find a trailer big enough to haul both Pioneers in for the trip. Yes, I have a trailer big enough to haul the 1000 and the 500 will fit in my truck bed with no problem but then that leaves absolutely no space to put luggage or gear so that wasn't an option.

We first started looking at open trailers but quickly decided, due to a little bit of paranoia on my part (we plan on driving down in two days and I didn't want my SXS's in plain view while we spent the night in a hotel), to go with an enclosed trailer instead. Well, my eyes quickly widened and my jaw dropped as I saw the prices of what a enclosed trailer cost that would be big enough to fit the Honda's.

UMM...NO THANK YOU!

So we were back to looking at open trailers that I would just chain the Pioneers to...and chain the crap out of them!

Then my wife gets an idea, "Why don't we find a nice used toy hauler that fits the 1000 and we can put gear and stuff in allowing us to put the 500 in the truck bed?"

GENIUS!

And if you knew my wife, quite surprising as she is very, very frugal. But she has always wanted a camper and I quickly discovered we could get a nice used one for the price of what an enclosed trailer would cost. So not only would we have at least one of the Pioneers out of view, we also would have a camper we could take camping through out the year...BONUS!!

After finding and purchasing a toy hauler, we called RRB to cancel our cabin and get a site for the hauler. Except, all the full hookup sites were taken.

WELL CRAP!

Not a big problem though. We reserved a primitive site and I headed off to good old Harbor Freight to buy a generator so that we could have the toy hauler fully self contained and use a primitive site. We just hoped everything in the hauler actually worked as it was still to cold to actually un-winterize it and check. Fingers crossed.

Well, low and behold, through circumstances that I don't know the details of, one of the members of hondasxs.com posted a thread that he was not going to be able to make it to the Takeover with his camper and he had a full hookup site he was wanting to transfer to someone who could use it.

SCORE!!

Sometimes you question if all the hassle you have to face in order to do something is worth it. But then as you face those hassles things just seem to unfold and work to your advantage in ways you would never imagine.

Now I just hope that all the plumbing actually works in the toy hauler...LOL.