Hello from the Oregon coast

[AerAriel]

Hello from the Oregon coast.
My wife and I were longtime (forty some-odd years) backpackers and mountaineers who rediscovered car camping in remote corners of the west a few years ago. That, and the fact that we camp off-season, led us one dark and frigid night down the slippery slope toward visions of comfort and convenience. (Not to mention campfire smoke and crawling out the tent in the middle of said shivering night for the usual reasons.)
Driving back from a canyon outing in Utah and spying a tiny, shiny AS dry-camping in the cottonwood shade beneath a towering red-rock escarpment sealed the deal.
We have now welcomed a 2008 19' Bambi into our newer, more refined version of the good (retired) life. Her name is Ariel after the sprite in Shakespeare's Tempest: "...to the elements be free/And fare thou well." In human form (and if I have done all this correctly) she would look very much like the avatar that accompanies this post. Appologies that neither I nor my wife look anything at all like that.
Anyway, this forum is great and we look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in places far, far away from full hookups.