The First Night

I know that this is supposed to be the travel blog but none the less, I had to write this down…

My last memory of sleeping in an RV goes all the way back to 1989 when travelling through Europe. I remember enjoy immensely the fact that the queen size bed was high above the driving cabin and always felt completely separate from the rest of the vehicle..

Yesterday after finishing the last few bits in the bedroom we manage to load the 200+KG Latex mattress (it really feels like 200 kg but it is probably less) inside the bedroom in its final resting place. I gotta tell you the truth. It felt so good after these many months of building and hard working, to finally contemplating the fact that, it was going to be my first night sleeping inside Gigi. I dreamed about this for the past 3 years, and it was finally happening.

I wanted to be perfect in every details. I opened the new sheets and blanket packages like a kids that open a present under the Christmas tree and why not, I got new pillows as well. I cleaned everything again.. the walls, the ceiling and the floor. By 5 pm I was ready to go to sleep…

By I resisted the temptation and had a very hot chicken soup instead as it was getting really cold. By 9 pm I started to feel a bit tired and decide it was time..

I had a quick look at the weather again and I notice that the temperature was now down to 7°. It made me laugh thinking that the heater inside Gigi is still not functional. Its gonna be ok. I got several blankets and I’m still going to enjoy my first night!

After locking the main door I walked to the bedroom and turned on the bedside light and closed behind me the bedroom door, thinking that I would have been warmer with the door close.

Within 2 minutes I was under the blankets looking at the very clear sky full of stars through the skylight window. I took a long breath and just felt great, like you feel after climbing a mountain. I looked at the stars for a good half an hour waiting for a shooting star to enter my window..

I was slowly falling asleep with the best view I ever had in my own bed and with the biggest smile on my face. All the troubles and painful worries I had experience for the past 18 months, seemed to finally disappear, to give room to a new sensation of serenity. It was just priceless!