Sagerat Scribbles

• Jul. 11, 2006 - Trailer Wiggles

Well, last night we camped in our own back yard. Rather, we camped in the barren bit beside our garage.

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Things actually went well, until Girl 1 got up in the middle of the night to cover Boy 2. I woke up to the sound of plastic rustling and I thought a rodent was taking up residence in my home away from home.

After the waking of the entire sagerat clan and the ensuing discussions of comfort, dreams, and desires for water, everyone tried to go back to sleep. Only they didn't. They tossed, and turned and made the trailer wiggle this way and that. I began to get motion sick.

I get motion sick sleeping in a water bed. I dream I am going in and out with the tide. I also get motion sick in rocking recliners and lo to the child who causes the recliner to lean back quickly!

It is impossible to sleep when you are certain your trailer is about to tip over, and your husband is adamant that it won't. He then questions my faith in his capacity for taking care of his family, would he let us sleep in a trailer that is about to tip over?

I imagine not, and I try to get my head to believe it, but it's listening to my stomach, which is sloshing about and threatening to empty it's contents, all because it's reacting to those little hairs in my cochlea, that are swishing back and forth, causing my brain to believe that we in a precarious position.

Whoever heard of a person who needs a Dramamine just to go to sleep in a camp trailer?

• Jul. 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by eyecorn

Sounds like fun, all except the seasickness! We have a pop up, but I never thought to camp here...we store it at my SIL's..what a fun idea! Hey, we could have a blogger camping gathering!

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• Jul. 12, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ktneis

What a fun night you had. I am the same way with motion sickness and unsteady campers. I truely think my boys could get that camper to tip over.

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• Jul. 12, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by nsremom

LOL about your hubby's comments. Along the lines of.....Ya think I'm gonna intentionally endanger my family?

Oh man....the day we drove our new boat home I thought I needed some Zoloft of something. I kept telling him that he needs to get out and check the boat trailer and BE SURE that boat is on there. I watched the boat moving and just got sick. He acted JUST like your husband....

Like I would hurt my family or others.....Leave me alone!!!! ya mad woman! (in a nutshell.)

My depth perception and grasp of physics is not like his.

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• Jul. 12, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by sagerats

An old friend of mine once told me this story:

While her husband drove she was always in a panic. She would try to step on the "brake" in her passenger seat, she clung to the car door and little noises would escape from her, such as squeaks and squeals.

After a couple of years of this, her husband demanded to know just what she thought she was seeing that he couldn't see?

She replied, "Death!"

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• Jul. 12, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Not1Worry

You've got the right idea about camping! I don't camp, but I might be able to handle it in a trailer like yours. My DH is a tough Army airborne ranger with over 150 airborne jumps. He rappels from helicopters and dangles from ropes. And he can't swing in a hammock without getting sick.

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• Jul. 13, 2006 - Tagged!

Posted by hallfamily8

Hi! I've been tagged for the first time and am now passing it on to you. If you would like to play, the questions are on my blog. ;-)
We'd love to own an RV someday. I think that would be SO fun!
Love, Dawn

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• Jul. 21, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SandBetweenMyToes

This made me laugh, partly because it reminded me of a camping trip we took march 2005. We were in our pop up, which by the way has an ac, toilet and shower. We were in FL, our campsite on the lagoon--about 8 feet from the water. There was a severe thunderstorm, like really severe, so we fled inland while I worried our little camper might not be there when we got back. It was. But, the wind continued to blow *very* hard all night long. We had turned the camper in the wide site sideways so we could have a water view. That just happened to put James' and my bed facing the direction the wind was coming from. Remember this is a popup, so it's a slideout bed with nothing but space under it. We could literally feel the wind lifting and dropping the bed all night. And the canvas sides were flapping in and out like crazy. I really, really thought we might flip over. How much wind does it take to flip a 3500 lb. trailer plus the weight of it's contents? I was afraid we were going to find out. Thankfully, as you can see, we survived and didn't flip either. The joys and adventures of camping. And, just think, you haven't even left your driveway yet!
Letitia

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