The Adventure Begins

We took delivery of our new Travel Trailer from AC Nelson RV in Omaha the third weekend in February of 2008. It is a 30 foot Cherokee Grey Wolf 28BH manufactured by Forest River. (pics on here from http://www.acnrv.com/)

We chose it for a number of reasons;

• They had a good winter sale on it
• Large enough to include family and friends in our outings
• It is big enough to sleep 9 depending on the size of the person
• It also has a slide out which really makes it feel roomy inside
• Light enough to be pulled with my current Silverado 1500

Some I have talked to say we wouldn't want to get any bigger without a bigger tow vehicle (TV). Its rated at just over 5000lbs dry weight with a MAX weight of 7500. My truck's max towing weight is 8200lbs so I think we'll be fine as long as we don't try to bring the kitchen sink with us.


It was a big decision but something we had been contemplating for several years. I had bought an old used '73 13 Ft CorsAir from a buddy of mine in 2004 and the first time we took it out we KNEW we had to somehow expand and it was something we BOTH really knew we'd look forward to.

The CorsAir (I think that was the brand :-) )was pretty rickety and dangerous so we kept it to VERY local areas and only had it out 3 or 4 times but we loved it. Never ran the propane or the plumbing because they were very old and didn't appear to work anyhow. It had had a fire inside a small area in the front storage and basically was a firetrap but hey, it was better than sleeping in the tent. It worked to keep us off the ground and dry (barely). I sold it to a buddy and he's using it as a deer hunting "cabin" now. Its probably best that it's used in a stationary manner such as this moving forward. I'll post some pictures of it on here sometime.

It's really kind of intimidating getting into this hobby but I am looking forward to the challenge and realize that it is definitely kind of like "on the job training" and you learn as you go. I've spent a lot of time the last few weeks reading up on things and asking questions on a couple of forums. There are a lot of VERY helpful people out there and I feel as though I somewhat know what I am doing now. We WILL See.

We are actually off on our MAIDEN VOYAGE tomorrow (err today) to Mahoney State park for two nights of fun. It wont be the brightest or warmest trip but we've been "jonesing" so bad to get out that we're going regardless of the weather. Its a close and quick trip and that's what most people recommend on you first trip to work out all the "kinks". We'll let you know how it goes... BC