I posted a few weeks ago about the work I was doing on my 91 Wilderness 24C. Unfortunately, after sealing the roof, replacing a bent axle, installing new tires and a new electric tongue jack, I found that the water damage was much worse than I thought. 2 1/2" wide roof supports were rotted off at the wall. I was able to sister in some support, but wouldn't want to haul it any distance. My in-laws decided they want to put it on their property permanently, and gave us enough to buy another trailer on the condition I help get this old unit situated.

After going through 12 trailers, and different dealers, we came to Camping World(I know how awful they are after my parents bought there, but I digress). At each dealer we looked only at trailers under 10k. At this one they showed us this very nice Alpenlite Aspen. They were asking $10,999 for it, obviously over our 10k cap. After going through it, my wife and I decided to make an offer of $8k out the door. They countered with $8.5k out the door and my wife loved the trailer so we accepted. I was nervous as I know CW does not check anything on used trailers, but I took the chance. After getting it home I swapped the tires and manual tongue jack for the new tires on the old trailer, and the new electric tongue jack replaced the manual jack on the new unit.

Now that she's home I've installed 2 new group 24 batteries, and begun testing and getting it ready for camping. Thus far I've found that the inverter/charger, gas only water heater, fridge, lights, power awning, stove, microwave, and water pump all work. There is a break in the lower part of the pipe for one low point drain so I stopped testing of the water system until i can install a fix tomorrow. I need a fridge vent cover(ordered), and since everything is good on the trailer, I've ordered all new LED lighting, including a motion light for the entrance, new latch for the back door, and a new memory foam mattress. Still no sign of an owners manual, but I've got nearly everything figured out. Seems like it will be a great long term unit, especially with the one piece fiberglass roof.