In order to understand the usefulness of Travel EASY Decks you must first understand the mud and muck experiences of the inventors. You will quickly see how adding a portable decking system to their camping equipment list became a crucial priority.
Before the development of Travel EASY’s portable, adjustable, and expandable decking system any camping trip could be as messy as the ATV trip mentioned yesterday. Below you will read how just one Travel EASY Deck – a.k.a. The Travel EASY STEP – can be as vital in making your camping trip as comfortably complete as campfires and marshmallow’s.
Fast forward a bit from the camping trip with 4-wheelers and muddy West Texas landscape to 4th of July, lakeside camping in baron, Southwest Oklahoma (Are you beginning to see a topography trend here?). Once again, even in the middle of summer, the camping trip turned into a rain soaked adventure. (Should we mention our camping friends came along for this trip too? Nah . . . you probably already guessed, right?)
We arrived at our campsite after a 5 hour haul through a steady downpour thinking the entire way “Happy we didn’t bring the boat. Happy we didn’t bring the boat!”(To those of you that don’t know, we don’t let the inside of the boat get wet . . . EVER . . . and people tease us to the point that it is a running joke with us now.) Luckily, by the time we reach our site there is a lull in the rain. Just long enough to comfortably set up camp in high humidity and pretty muddy surroundings. At least the campsite was equipped with a trailer pad. It was just everywhere else that was difficult to stay reasonably clean through.
As is common in many camping locations, this particular spot had an erosion spot directly off of the trailer step. This spot created a fairly large “last step” when exiting the trailer so we laid our lone Travel EASY Deck proto-type right there. Perfect! Now there wasn’t that dreaded “doosie” step when exiting the trailer and we had extended the area of the concrete pad making for a more comfortable location to enter from as well. The step positioned flatly in with the depth of the concrete so there was no fear of tripping over it either.
Fortunately, we were all set up before it started to rain again. Unfortunately . . . it didn’t stop! This was where our first official Travel EASY Deck “test” – actually, since we had only one proto-type with us at the time, it was more of a Travel EASY Step test – took place.
A few hours and many, many major water dumps from both the canopy and awning later we were ready to step out of the soggy grass and onto something solid. Unfortunately, we only had one Travel EASY Deck section and 8 full grown people. Being family though, all 8 of us huddled like a football team on that 8 sq ft section.
This is when we noticed just how useful and effective our invention actually was. First of all, we were impressed that all 8 of us fit on the 8 sq ft deck section without having to tie us all together to stay on. Second, we were excited that it was sturdy and, even with the rain saturated ground; it didn’t sink down under our collective weight. And third, its height adjustment successfully kept us all out of the ankle deep water that had collected in this seemingly ordinary erosion hole which, in turn, helped keep the trailer clean and dry upon entry. It worked just the way we had developed it to . . . GREAT!
Yep! Camping with a full arsenal of Travel EASY Decks was going to be a must!
Check out our website, www.traveleasydecks.com, for more information on this awesome, must have, recreational product.
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