We, of course, would like to tell our clients that we know everything about motorhomes, and they eat the dog. But our mother taught us as children that it is not good to lie.

In fact, none of us had ever set foot in a motorhome before purchasing Grizzly Green. So we learn everything as we go, along with our first clients.

And there is a lot to learn. We have only recently begun a detailed study of hardware, and a brave new world has opened up before us: endless discussions in thematic forums around the world, tons of articles and instructions, specialized stores, an entire industry of tuning and components.

Take for example our new air suspension. We reached it only when we heard this word from 3-4 different knowledgeable people, when our rear wheels finally gnawed holes in their casings and had already begun to eat the bottom. But for an experienced car owner, this is the first word, like “mother”. In camper online stores, there is usually even a separate category for pneuma.

Or electricity supply. When our inverter beeped disgustingly for the first time and said that it would no longer give us light, we were incredibly surprised.

- How is this? What, can’t you turn on the air conditioning and go for a walk for the whole day? And you can’t leave the boiler on all night?

- You can, of course you can, stupid ones. If you are plugged into an electrical outlet while camping.

Oh, we're in the forest and there's no power outlet? Then we learn the second magic word: “generator”. We calculate our wattage, select our first portable generator, look for a place for it in the cabin, look for a smaller generator so that this bastard can somehow squeeze into the street hatch. We find out the prices for specialized on-board generators, lick our lips at them along with a good part of the global camper community, and roll our lips back. We turn on our engineering ingenuity and climb on Ali for components for assembling a custom on-board generator. And there we learn the interesting phrase “range extender generator”, which is more familiar to Indian rickshaw drivers than to sedate Siberian car owners. There is still a lot to think about and room for an inquisitive mind to roam.

And winter is just around the corner. Do you know that a very rare serial motorhome is at least somehow prepared for more or less serious cold weather? Oh, it's a hot topic in the English-speaking community, and it even has a name: "winterisation". This includes preparation for winter operation, a set of measures during parking, and even special enterprises for conservation during downtime. But perhaps we’ll talk about this a little later.

Someone may have a question: “What if something goes wrong on my trip?” It will go easily. It may very well be that it will work. But that’s the whole point of traveling! As Bilbo Baggins used to say: “It’s a dangerous thing, Frodo, to step outside the threshold: once you set foot on the road, if you give free rein to your feet, you don’t know where it will take you.”

The trick is that you can cope with any surprises and figure it out. And if not completely, then we will definitely help you. And when you return home, when a year or two has passed, when you sit down at the table to tell your friends about your past travels, then you are unlikely to remember how you lay on the beach, drank a cocktail in a bar, or went to a museum. But you will definitely remember how you got lost somewhere, broke down, got stuck, drowned, and then swam out, got out, got fixed, and were found.

We may not know everything about motorhomes yet, but we are sure of this.