This past week we have been attending the 2011 Escapade Rally in Gillette, Wyoming. What is an Escapade you ask? Well, it is everything to do with RVing. Part time and full time RVers come from every direction to attend classes, be entertained, shop for neat things for your RV and learn how to join in with groups that may be of particular interest to you. It is put on by a club we are members of....Escapees. See this link:
http://www.escapees.com/escapade/2011/
For instance, Alex and I joined the group for Habitat for Humanity. The group is called Care-A-Vanners.
We were going to head into South Dakota to check out the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, etc. However, we are now going to back track and return to Sheridan, Wyoming where there are two "builds" going on that we will help with for about 3 weeks. There will be 6 teams (1 couple = a Team). We will help on a house that is almost finished for a couple of days and then start another house with the Care-A-Vanners for a two week period. We will work for 8 hours a day and Habitat for Humanity will pay for part of our campground fee.
We knew we wanted to do this before we even started full timing. We are willing to give it a try and see if it is for us. We'll let you know how it goes. http://www.habitat.org/rv/about_cav.aspx
The Escapade was great. Alex attended everything he could. I did as much as I could, but it wore me out after a couple of days. They had so many things going on from early morning till 9 or 10 at night. It was fun and we would recommend anyone thinking about buying an RV or going full time to attend one of these rallies. You will learn a lot and meet some fantastic people from all walks of life with one thing in common, RVing. LOVED IT.
Here are a few pics. We didn't take many. We were too busy.
https://picasaweb.google.com/103645060086585742201/Escapade?authkey=Gv1sRgCMbMsoLRsrjxmwE
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