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Route 66 with Our Grandson – Shasta Trailer Adventure: September 12–14, 2015
Our latest journey took us back to the Mother Road, but this time with a new twist. Instead of our usual road trip by car, we brought along our Shasta Travel Trailer. Another special part of this trip was traveling with our four-year-old grandson, Jameson, introducing him to the adventure of the Mother Road. Because we were traveling with the trailer, we planned the trip differently than usual. Instead of long driving days, we chose shorter travel distances with planned overnight stops, giving us more time to enjoy each location along the way. Saturday, September 12, 2015 Speedway, Indiana → Springfield, Missouri Originally we planned to leave Friday evening after…
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Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Day 4: August 16, 2015
Not too much to say about today, really. We started the journey home early, broke down camp, packed up the trailer, and hauled it east to Indy all day. No festival attendance for us today, since yesterday was our big day. We took Route 66 most of the way out, but eventually had to take the Evil I home. Still, we did stop at the Route 66 Rest Area and Visitor’s Center, which is a great place to pick up information not just on Missouri, but on Route 66 as well. The rest area is very much Route 66-themed. Here are a few examples; see the gallery below for more.…
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Well, we’re movin’ on up!!
As indicated in my previous blog post, we are selling our Serro Scotty HiLander travel trailer. We are having growing pains (or at least, the beginning of them), and it’s a good time for us to move on up…to a bigger travel trailer! We started out with our first travel trailer being a small T@B, which was good for a couple, but yet we actually quickly outgrew that, even without additional family! Just switching the bed back and forth to a dinette, orchestrating who would get dressed first, leave the trailer, so the other person could make the bed back into a dinette and get dressed… And not to mention:…
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*SOLD* 2010 Serro Scotty HiLander Travel Trailer
***WE HAVE NOW SOLD OUR SERRO SCOTTY HILANDER TRAVEL TRAILER*** Due to a growing family tree (one grandson now and his little brother is coming soon), we are selling our beloved Serro Scotty HiLander and upgrading to a larger trailer with a bunkhouse, etc. We just ordered a 2015 Shasta Oasis and are very excited to get it. That said, if I could keep and maintain two trailers, we’d keep the Scotty…but we’re working toward early retirement, so it makes more financial sense to sell. So, we are looking for a good home for our Scotty. At the bottom of this post is the standard information from Serro Scotty’s website…
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August 20-22, 2010: Starve Hollow State Recreation Area, Vallonia, Indiana
Some photos from the rally we had at Starve Hollow State Recreation Area in Vallonia, Indiana. We had 9 T@Bs, 1 Serro Scotty, and even picked up a couple who were just there on their own in an old U-Haul travel trailer. Slideshow of Jennifer’s Photos For more details about a particular photo, click on it in the slideshow and it will open in my Flickr site. [flickrslideshow acct_name=”roadtripmemories” id=”72157624660888177″ width=”600″] Slideshow of Pat’s Photos For more details about a particular photo, click on it in the slideshow and it will open in my Flickr site. [flickrslideshow acct_name=”11019355@N03″ id=”72157624660763319″ width=”600″]
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A Little Scotty Then & Now…
Since picking up our Serro Scotty HiLander a week ago, we’ve found out the prevailing question we can anticipate in the future: Is that new or restored? We encountered that question twice while camping in Batesville, Indiana Sunday. That’s a fair question to ask from those who remember Scotties from the trailer’s hey-day in the mid-late 1960’s. The HiLander model was introduced in 1964 and was manufactured until the late 1970’s. Little changed in the design, and with the popularity of them during those years, there was little need to fix what wasn’t broken. John Serro strived to build a line of small but roomy, lightweight trailers that were affordable.…
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Friday Happy Dance…
After waiting all week to hear back from Tom at Serro Scotty trailers, we got in touch with him today to find out about the modifications for our new HiLander that we’d like done in production. All three were OK’d at NO COST!! With the total retro look of the exterior from the colors to the design, we wanted to do the same with the interior. First, the interior on a standard HiLander looks like this: We’re going with a different flooring. Instead of the tan stuff, we’re going with the highly retro black & white checkered floor, which will look similar to this old Shasta trailer: The next issue…
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Weighing options…
Those of you who follow the blog know that we’re new RVers since September and are already looking to upgrade to something with a few more amenities than our T@B. We’ve been back & forth for over a month trying to decide what we want our next trailer to be. We were pretty sure we narrowed it down to the Serro Scotty HiLander, and even made a trip to western Pennsylvania to talk with the owner of the company. However, the Indy RV Show has been in town the past week and on our second trip to it this past Friday night, we ran into a nicely priced and bigger…
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2010 T@B Trailer For Sale!
**UPDATED 4/23/2010** Our T@B has been sold! Thanks for your inquiries! For the three of you who follow my blog, my apologies for turning this into a classified ad! Just looking to get a little more internet exposure for our T@B we have had for sale. For those of you who found this site because you’re looking to buy a T@B, thanks for finding us! Feel free to contact us at roadmaven@aol.com. Our T@B has been sold, but if you would like a brand new T@B, try Little Guy Trailers, who has resumed production of these cool trailers! 2010 TAB TQ Travel Trailer with loads of options and extras! **Excellent condition, must…
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Time to upgrade…
If you would have told me three months ago I’d be the owner of a travel trailer in early December, I likely would’ve looked at you, tilted my head, and would’ve said “Huh?” Well, it is true, and I’m quite happy I own one, a 2010 T@B TQ. We bought this little guy in September after a series of events transpired on a Route 66 motor tour we were on in Missouri. We have no regrets after purchasing our T@B. We’ve had 5 camp outs in it, met some great new T@B friends, and have even spent numerous nights “driveway” camping. We’re hooked and there’s no turning back! After camping…