November 6, 2020 – We had spent several days at Stephen F Austin State park where we had a wonderful time camping, hiking, campfires and enjoying watching the deer at our site. We loved the campground loop and the fact that while it was a large loop you couldn’t see the people across the loop from you because of the grass in the middle of it. We left the campground a bit later than we usually would because we didn’t really want to go back yet. We’d even started planning on maybe trying to squeeze another trip in before Thanksgiving and our plans (at that time) to go to Oklahoma for turkey day.
We were slowed due to a work convoy and the fact that many people don’t want to let our traveling rig over (we do slow anyone behind us down). Turn signal blinking, trying to be cautious of the workers in front of us all of a sudden we felt a thud and I’m like did someone just hit us. Sure enough a young kid (16) had rear-ended the RV. From the workers that were around and saw it apparently a car (we didn’t see it ourselves) whipped around us cutting off the young man, he swerved to avoid the car but clipped the rear passenger corner of our RV and totaled his truck. When the police arrived one of them even commented to us on what kind of camper we have because his truck is destroyed and our camper with a bit of burlap and bungees could be driven home for repairs. We were heartbroken and sick to our stomachs at the damage to our lovely home on wheels. We limped home, received a call and started working on arrangements to have repairs done, called our RV dealer to see about bringing it in the following morning, and I cried. We had no idea if she could be repaired or would be totaled so when we got home – already exhausted – we unloaded every personal item we could from her to take her in the following morning. It took time between holidays and pandemic shipping slowdowns it took about 3 months for her repairs and a lot of time wishing we had her back.
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