GORV - Digital Magazine Issue #12 | Page 30

THIS RV LIFE THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! WITH TIM SMITH TIM SMITH OFFERS WORDS OF WISDOM FOR RV NEWCOMERS I think I fell in love with caravans as a child, sitting in bed listening to my dad reading The Wind in the Willows. I can close my eyes and remember it now. Ratty and Mole had dropped in on Mr Toad. "There you are!" cried the Toad, straddling and expanding himself. "There's real life for you, embodied in that little cart. The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing! And 30 gorv.com.au mind! This is the very finest cart of its sort that was ever built, without any exception. Come inside and look at the arrangements. Planned ’em all myself, I did!" CARAVAN, SWAG, CAMPER? So motorhome, caravan, camper trailer or tent? Let’s look at each one. The tent: This small fold-out cabin offers you the misery of the swag, and it takes time and effort