Deciding on Hammie

When you look up 'vintage camper' on line, it is so easy to be taken in by the gorgeous, old time, creative, unique campers that you will find.  So many lovely campers, restored, remodeled, repainted and redone that you might think to yourself, "I can do that...."

This is what happened to my husband and I when we found Hammie on Craigslist.  Because Hammie was located a mere six blocks from where Kyle works, it was easy for him to run over and take a look.  The man who was selling this lovely 1969 North Star Camper Trailer, has received it in kind for building a deck for one of his neighbors.  He was selling is cheap, for $900 and it was parked out behind the house, waiting for someone to notice how lovely it could be one day.

With the sun setting behind the camper, it was easy to overlook all of the flaws.  What Kyle saw instead was the possibility, the potential of having our own little vintage camper and all of great times our family could have in it.  The only issue, is that neither of us wanted a project camper.  We wanted to be able to hitch it up and be on our merry way.

This alone deterred Kyle from saying yes at that very moment and so he left the camper sitting there, forlorn and lonely.  He called me on his way home and we discussed all of the pros and cons regarding an older trailer.  He assured me that everything wrong was only cosmetic and we could paint and patch and have a cute camper.  Going against my very type A nature, I said okay and we decided to buy the camper.  Kyle quickly called the seller back and said we would take it.  The man was so generous that he offered to knock $100 off of the price, saying he thought a family should have a camper to camp in.  They agreed that Kyle would pick it up the following day after work.

We had officially become camper owners.