THE TREE HOUSE: The Jackelope

So... we're buying a camper! WHOOOEEEE! It's something I've been wanting to do for a while (remember #14 on 30 Before 30?), and Brady and I had pretty casually discussed it a few times, but we'd never really gotten serious about it. However, this spring and fall I'm going to be in Hanksville most of the time, and as much fun as living in a tent 5 months out of the year sounds... I thought maybe I'd consider alternatives. One night just for funsies I looked on KSL to see how much the pop-up trailers generally run, and was a little disappointed to see that most of them were out of our price range. So then I decided to look at "actual" campers, and found a few for $500-800. I thought, 'we could manage that.' Then I brought it up to my friend Nate, whose response was, "I have one of those." And he sent me this picture.

Let me tell you what, my eyes about bugged out of my head. As we chatted about it for a bit, he said, "I've been thinking about offloading it." It took me a second to realize what he meant, and then I tried to gently prod him into admitting he'd like to sell it... (to me, obviously). He sent me a few more pictures,

and my ~~want~~ need for "the Jackelope" intensified... just LOOK at those adorable green appliances!!! Obviously it needs a little love, which is why he was interested in getting rid of it. Apparently he's had it for a couple of years and never got around to doing anything with it (meanwhile I'm mentally screaming "LET ME LOVE IT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE"). He told me he had to think about it, and I grudgingly agreed to let him think it over. I talked to Brady about it and he was totally on board (assuming he wouldn't charge us an exorbitant amount to take it off his hands)!

Eventually about a week later, I brought it up again (Nate and I talk quite a bit, so it wasn't like we hadn't had any contact between those two interactions) and he agreed to sell it to us for a measly sum that I won't even mention except to say it's EXTREMELY reasonable. Now all I can do is obsessively comb through Pinterest for fun ideas and jump on the camper renovation blog bandwagon. So here I'll post the rest of the pictures he sent me, and when we actually go pick it up in a couple of weeks I'll take some pictures of my own, and save you the sounds of me "squeeing" on video. ;)