Interior Shots

Here are some interior shots of the Scout. The fabric on the cushions is hideous (no offense if you love it...) and I plan to re-cover them for the front dinette toot sweet.

We plan to make the rear dinette/bed into a permanent bed by replacing the folding table with a piece of plywood. That will allow us to use a couple of underbed plastic storage bins stacked up for our clothes storage and will allow us to enhance the cushions with some sort of cushy mattress pad or memory foam.

Other than that we don't have too many mods in mind. We're finding plenty of storage space for our needs and we inherited some of Grandpa Ken's plastic organization containers that makes the space even more useful.

PA - Parker Dam State Park

Nice park, campsites are a little open and close, especially those with electric. The non-electric sites looked a little more our speed with more tree cover and growth between sites. That said, it was very quiet and we had a nice stay.

We were on site #68 which was very convenient to the gorgeous comfort station that looked to be brand new. It even had a nice laundry room and a large commercial grade double sink for dishwashing.

IN - Indiana Dunes State Park

Wow, what a great campground and a great park. It is really amazing to take a short hike through the woods and get to sand dunes then the beach (Lake Michigan). Very cool. Nice facilities here, too. We'd love to spend more time here.

We were on site #110. The sites were close to one another, but a decent amount of growth between the sites makes them fairly private and the tree canopy makes it feel very woodsy. The neatness of the park and facitities is very Disney-esque.

MN - Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Campground

This was a nice campground with easy access to the Twin Cities - it is about 5 miles away from Kevin's sister and her husband in Hugo.

Unfortunately it was right in a major hail storm and tornado path the evening of May 25th. A mere 4 miles away families completely lost their homes to the tornado and a small child was killed. Amazingly, the Scout came through with just a couple of pock marks on the diamond plate from the hail. We're certainly counting our blessings. Note the hail on the ground in the "frosty" picture - this was a few hours after the storm had come through. And still a little hail remained on the ground the next morning when the clear shot was taken.

We were in site #24, which is a pull-through site (neither of us wanted to try backing at our first site). We didn't spend too much time camping since we were visiting our many family members and friends in the Twin Cities - but the sites were big and pretty well spaced for nice privacy.

Picking up the Scout

We ordered our Scout from Danny's Campers in Westfield, WI and picked it up May 24th, 2008 on our way to Minnesota to visit family and friends. Theo had a great time checking out all of the compartments.