The Adventure Begins

My Dad has had a little 1976 Rancho El Rae for about twelve years and he has hauled it all over the place. We have slept in it a few times while we have stayed with him at the farm. He recently upgraded to a bus and asked if we would like to have the little camper. We have talked about wanting a camper for years but just haven't been able to afford one, we jumped on the chance to bring this one home. We have never been around travel trailers much and don't know the first thing about them. We knew this one had some water leaks and that everything was functional but that was about all.
We went to visit my Dad in early June but really didn't know he was going to give us the camper until we got there, he had mentioned to make sure we brought the truck at least. He didn't say anything about it until the night before we were supposed to come home. We had to rush and work hard to get things ready to even pull it. Our truck had the wrong hook ups and we couldn't find the right ones that late so we had to put everything off until the morning. The morning we were leaving we found the right hookups and got them installed, we bought removable extension mirrors for the truck so we could see better. Dad was worried about a couple of the tires on the trailer so he paid for two new ones just so he knew we could make it home safely. We have never hauled anything bigger than a golf cart trailer and a car dolly, we were a bit nervous. I still haven't ever pulled any trailer, I leave that to the hubs, though I should learn one of these days. It was after 1:00 before we got on the road and it took us 11 hours to get home. It was a very long day.
When we had gotten home we had just pulled straight into the drive because we were so tired but the next day my husband decided to park it himself, while I was at work. It is a tight, tight, fit and a pain in the butt to get where we wanted it and he said it took him about a 20 point turn to do it but he got it there. (He has since improved and can do it in about a 5 point turn but he has to get within a couple inches of the house and then cram the front end of the truck into the front fence. I should take a video one day)
We are glad we got home in one peace and got it parked where we wanted it.