This week let’s hear from Nebraska, USA based cyclists Russel and Kim Hilliard who turned their dream camper into a reality allowing them to take their hobby further-afield and also to relax at each day’s end in their ideal mobile environment. Over to Russell…
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My wife Kim and I are avid road cyclists. We usually get in about 2500 outside miles per year most of it in Nebraska where we live and also Colorado. We decided a couple of years ago that it would be nice to have some type of a camper to use to be able to extend our bicycle trips beyond day trips.
We began looking into campers, but we didn’t like how cheaply they were made. Also we didn’t have a vehicle to tow the camper and so that would mean buying an expensive truck. We looked at a school bus conversion but ultimately decided on an ambulance conversion. After all we are both in the medical field and know the quality of these vehicles and liked the fact that they are usually well-maintained.
We spent about 4 months looking for just the right vehicle and ultimately purchased a Freightliner medium-duty ambulance from the fire department in Chambersburg Pennsylvania. This is the mother of all ambulances. It was a 2014 model and had just 78,000 miles on it.
I was discussing this project with one of my patients who agreed to fly out and drive it back to us here in Nebraska.
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