When we were about to trade our original camper van, Connie, in for our new van, Ritzy, I wrote about how emotionally attached I felt to the van, despite it “just being a thing”. What is interesting is how long it is taking to form an equivalent attachment to our new van. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great step up, and was the right thing to do, but I still haven’t fully identified with it. Partly the weather. It has been so wet and cold on all of our trips so far that we have only seen one side of the van. It will be once the weather improves, and definitely once I get it over to France for a long trip, that I will really start to feel that it is really ours.