Another Eggs Ramble

Brown County State Park campsite

 From a view of a tributary feeding the Ohio, we moved to a deep Indiana woods. Brown County State Park is in the heart of a place called The Little Smokies, where the glacier that created the Great Plains stopped and left wooded hills. This is our third trip here for an annual gathering of molded fiberglass trailers. It's a beautiful place just outside Nashville IN, a charming resort town full of log cabins and historic buildings now housing restaurants and art shops. The gathering is hosted by some lovely folks but there's never enough time to get to know them and the distance is too great to join their other events so this was our last visit with them. We did hit our favorite shops in town and are bringing home a few mementoes, but mostly it was fun seeing a greater diversity of Eggs than we saw at Tybee and being back in the park that was my favorite growing up. 

Casita

A Casita is probably the most common molded fiberglass trailer you will see on the road. The advantages of molded fiberglass are that they are very light and have no seams that leak, a huge advantage over stick built trailers (or Stickies as they are called). 

Scamps, which are made in Minnesota are probably next. The original molded fiberglass trailers are the Bolers, which were made in Canada and they hired the family that now owns Scamp to make trailers in the US for them. When Boler closed, the Scamp family used the old Boler molds and developed some of their own to continue making trailers and created the Scamp brand. 

Boler

Scamp

UHaul

 For a brief period in the mid 1980s, UHaul offered fiberglass trailers to rent. I'd seen smaller ones before but not this size. The gentleman who brought it said that they made only 59 of them.

In addition to our fifth wheel Escape, there were other Canadian trailers here. Back in the 1980s, Big Foot briefly made a fifth wheel trailer. I'd seen this one on a previous trip here and toured it. The owner said that he knew of one for sale and Ruthie and I were very interested, but the age put me off and I'm glad for my 2016 Escape. There was also a Big Food pull behind, which I had not seen, and 21 foot Escape pull behinds. This is the first year I've seen so many Escapes on the road. There were several at Tybee as well. I think their new management is promoting them better. The quality of the one I now own is great and I'm glad to see others happily on the road with them.

21' Escape pull behind

  

Canadian Big Foot

1980s Canadian Big Foot

It's been a great adventure, all of it. We are now in the mountains of Tennessee on our way home. We are staying at Pigeon River Campground, a place we have stayed before, right on the Pigeon River. Sadly, they have a set of camp sites that are down hill from their dump attachments which means we can't dump our black or gray water tanks into the dump attachment assigned to our site. On the way out in the morning, we'll have to find an empty site uphill from the dump attachment as they have no standard dump station, either. They also don't have any way to contact them after they close their office (we arrived at 5:05, most placed don't close their office until 8pm) except an impersonal answering service. As beautiful as the river is, I cannot report a good stay here. That said, we'll be home tomorrow, ready to organize and clean for the next trip out. Enjoy this lovely sunset.