Jason Foster

Downloading the Owner's manual and equipment manuals is a great idea. I have already begun watching the videos. Thankfully, there isn't much in the Oliver that differs from some of the other campers I have had in the past. My wife and I enjoy a lot of flexibility so travelling together for extended periods isn't too difficult. We have a Tuesday delivery scheduled. Hopefully, Oliver can stick to the schedule, but like I said, we are flexible. The mothership reference is quite funny. When she hears it, m wife will start calling Ollie people aliens.

You hit the nail on the head. I absolutely believe the positives will outweigh the negatives when it comes to its size. We love to disperse camp in hard to get to places and I think the Oliver will be useful in that regard. We don't spend much time indoors, so the size shouldn't matter much in the long run.

The "family experience" is definitely up my wife's alley. She is an incredibly outgoing people person. I, however, am opposite of that in many ways. Regardless, we camp because of nature. We enjoy peace and quiet, long walks in the woods, and the occasional Shiner Bock fireside with friends. If you ever met us in person, you would remember my wife and our crazy little dog and maybe the quiet guy sipping his beer at the edge of the fire ring. Happy trails.

Lol. Sounds like something I would do.

Thanks for the welcome. It is sad that this story should not happen to anyone. Though some call the Oliver an egg, I have a lemon sitting outside my house right now that I will have trouble selling. I will more than likely sell it at a loss just to see it get out of my life.

Thanks, and yes, I am experienced. Not only with campers, RVs in general but backpacking. I would consider myself the intrepid outdoors enthusiast who generally gets so caught up in work I have to remind myself to get out of the house. To be honest, I'm not sure why I got so caught up in Oliver that I threw a lot of cash at them. Perhaps I recognized the quality when I saw it. Maybe it was the massive number of positive reviews. It could be the trail of worthless campers and RVs littering the highway of my past. Maybe I'm just crazy. Whatever it is, I am planning to enjoy this. In fact, I already have. This forum and Oliver University, as you have said, is quickly becoming my friend and a source of great knowledge. I have already watched almost every video I can find. Some, I have watched multiple times. Now I am delving into the forums. Great stuff here. Thanks for the welcome.

Thanks for the tips and warm welcome. I will definitely get in touch with my sales rep. In my case it was Chase Inman, but it looks like he handed me off to Josh since the last few emails I received were from him. Chase's wife is sick so I'm sure he has his hands full. I planned to spend at least one night at the Oliver shakedown CG, though I took the entire week off, so I have the option of staying longer if needed. I'm not a newbie to camping, so I'm aware that even with the incredible build quality that goes into an Oliver, it is still a complex beast full of outsourced equipment. I am hoping this will be an amazing experience for me and my wife, but I'm going into this with a headlight and wrenches on standby.

Before we saw the Oliver, we were committed to purchasing an Airstream Globetrotter. We went so far as to visit a showroom in Fort Worth, picked it out and settled on the trade value for our old camper. The dealership turned out to be some of the biggest crooks I have ever had the displeasure of talking to. While we were still grumbling about that, we saw an Oliver for the first time. Our impression was that the build quality was exactly what we were looking for; However, it had a few negatives. First, it was small. This was good and bad. We all know the tradeoffs here. The other was that Oliver didn't take trade-ins. This last one was a hard pill to swallow. We are still trying to sell our other one. I am fairly confident that the Oliver will be the last camper we will ever buy. We are fairly young so that is a bold statement. We got almost all of the options including the full Truma upgrade and the Lithium Pro package. It was expensive but cheaper than that ridiculous Airstream would have been after it was all said and done.

After several unsuccessful camper trailers and the nightmare that went along with the experience, we finally decided to order an Oliver. We made friends with an owner of an Oliver in a National Forest campground in Texas after seeing LE2 in person. Ours is now on order, due December 19. I have no idea what hull number it will be but we are certainly excited to get it. The wait, however, is a bit irritating since this is our time of year to camp. It will come soon enough. We hope the wait will be worth it. *Fingers crossed*