If your husband is a handyman, buy a used one, but first rent or borrow one from a friend. You will get the feel of camping. Don't spend all your time in a paid campground but enjoy the State and National Parks too, and local lakes. Learn to cook simple, easy meals. Take your sewing machine if you want. Be sure when you buy to get a camper with a generator and then you always have lights and electricity. We started camping with a tent when our kids were little, then progressed to a camper my husband built into an old "bread truck" van for about 30 years and then graduated to an older RV. Had lots of fun in them all. Camped many of the Western states and Canada. All our kids have wonderful memories of our camping expeditions and now that it's just the two of us we go to the Good Sam Convention and some music festivals when we feel like it. Campers are usually friendly, wonderful people. We still converse with people we met in Canada many years ago. Beats motels all to pieces and you get to sleep in your own bed every night, eat in or out to suit yourselves, no check in or out rules, and get to spend lots of time outdoors if the weather suits your clothes.