Pick Up Day / by Dave Hileman

In the Spring of 2016 we took delivery of our Oliver Elite 18 foot travel trailer. The photo shown is ours waiting for our instruction on how things work. We arrived at the facility in Hohenwald, TN, with our new-to-us Ford Explorer Sport Trac. Since that day we have towed the Oliver to 49 states, many several times, three provinces and one territory in Canada for a total of a bit over 122,000 miles. We have camped in National, State and County Parks, commercial campgrounds, Walmarts, Cracker Barrels, friend’s driveways and a lot of interesting places with both Harvest Host and Boondockers Welcome. Plus a few sketchy spots not on the preferred camping agenda. We now use a Toyota Sequoia and it is much better suited to towing the Oliver. We have been in cold weather, wet weather, hot weather, windy weather and perfect weather and the Oliver has proved itself equal to the elements to keep us comfortable. Not sure where we go next but looking at Connecticut, MA, New York, including Long Island, and Pennsylvania for the fall, Florida next winter and summer in the Northwest. We shall see.

Our first view of the Oliver ready to go.