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The Maiden Voyage – April 11-18, 2014   I have always wanted a camper.   We called them campers when I was a kid, covering the whole gamut of travel trailers, motorhomes, and vanagons.   Well I found my baby, and knew it when I saw the inside.   Clean, working, the right size -- 18 feet long, with two doors.   I couldn’t understand two doors until I saw the layout.   At one end is a “bedroom” of sorts, and you can draw the curtain and sleep in as long as you like while the “other party” (kids, friends, in-laws, the odd hobo) has the run of the kitchen, bathroom, and the whole outdoors.   I had spent weeks preparing my camper for the maiden voyage. Renae arrived Friday in time to help with the last of the packing, filling, loading, and hitching.   Somehow I’d convinced her to go along with my harebrained scheme.   My request was a simple one:   “Make sure I don’t do an...