By Cheri Sicard
In the video below, we join Carol, a full-time RVing septuagenarian, as she interviews Bernie and Lois, a couple of nonagenarians who live full-time in an amazing tractor-trailer RV conversion. Of course, they give us a tour.
The tractor-trailer RV conversion profiled in the video is actually the 5th RV that 94-year-old Bernie has built. His first one was way back in 1959. At the time, Bernie had only ever seen an RV on paper, not in person. But he built it anyway!
It took Bernie only about two months to build the rig while he was living out in the desert near California’s Salton Sea.
A semitruck trailer gave Bernie lots of room to work with, so the couple’s home on wheels offers plenty of comfort, space, and amenities.
They have a large bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen. Three air conditioners are available for cooling, but Bernie says they only use one and it does the job. There’s a washer and dryer, a large kitchen with a HUGE amount of counter space, stove, oven, microwave, and large fridge.
Bernie made the dubious decision of using sheetrock in his RV. Despite warnings that it won’t hold up on the road (to say nothing of the weight), Bernie says that it has served him well through the two RVs that he built with it.
Watch the video for the full tour, but I will give away one amazing feature to look for here. Bernie designed his RV so that he could drive his car in the back door, not so unusual for a semi-trailer. However, you would never know it from the inside, but when not in use, the car is hiding under the couple’s bed!
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