Once you arrived at your favorite campsite, there was more work to do. Unpack the tent, pitch it in just the right spot and hope you don’t run out of daylight. Half way through the grueling ordeal you realize that you left the tent stakes in the garage. The nearest hardware store is 25 miles away and will be closed by the time you get there. Frustrated, tired but undaunted, you decide that everyone should rough it by sleeping out under the stars.
With the camp cots unfolded and bathed in the glow of your camp fire, you finally settle in for a good night’s sleep. No sooner do you fall asleep than the roar of thunder can be heard in the distance. Before you can say where is the rain gear, the stars disappear and skies open up in a deluge of pouring rain. Everyone heads for the safety of the family wagon in hopes of getting some sleep.
Dawn breaks on your rain soaked camp and you are shocked to discover that during the night, a family of bears has rustled all of the food from the ice chest. To make matters worse, the bears made off with your soaking wet jacket, the one with a candy bar and the car keys in the pocket. Wet, tired and thinking that there is no place like home and a nice warm bed, you start the long trek to the nearest town and civilization, vowing to never go camping again.
The doldrums of winter have set in and out sheer boredom you decide to check out the RV and sporting goods show at the local mall. Wandering among the artificial indoor plants and shoe stores, you turn the corner and there it is. It is the answer to your camping hopes and dreams, a bright shiny new recreational vehicle. Completely self contained, it has storage space for everything you might need to hit the road in style and comfort.
The kitchenette is nicely equipped, almost better than your first apartment. The bathroom has its own shower stall and the entire RV is air conditioned. The master sleeping area has what looks like a queen size bed, just like home. You notice that extra sleeping space is provided by what look like two twin size beds. Everywhere you look you see amenities that could make camping with the family a real pleasure. After 20 minutes of pacing around, you decide that camping is not that bad after all, especially when you are surrounded by all the comforts of home.
After getting your new toy home, it dawns on you that something is missing. There are no bed sheets. No big deal, you’ll just go the linen closet, safe in the knowledge that you will find whatever you need. So your grab some bed sheets sets, heading out to the driveway to make the beds in your shiny new RV. Spreading out the bottom sheet on the queen bed you are surprised and dismayed to discover that the bottom sheet simply will not fit. The mattress is longer than the sheet. After some stretching and pulling on the bottom sheet you give up. You decide to try putting the sheets on the smaller beds and discover that the sheets are too big.
By now you are thoroughly confused and your mind goes back to a conversation you had with the salesperson. You clearly remember the salesperson telling you that the master bed was a queen size. So you pick up and the phone and call the dealer. The salesperson informs you that yes, the master bed is a queen size and that it is RV queen. In fact, the mattress is a RV long queen which means it is four inches longer than a standard queen size mattress.
He goes on say that the mattress is also thinner than a standard queen size bed, five inches instead of the usual eight or nine inches. And one more thing, the smaller beds are RV bunk beds, which are not as wide as a standard twin size bed. You ask the obvious question about whether the dealer carries these specialty sheets and are told no but that RVSheetSet.com has a great selection of RV sheet sets at great prices.
Signing on to RVSheetSet.com you are pleased with the selection, prices and size information. You learn that the smaller beds in your RV are RV bunk size which measure 34 inches by 75 inches, 4 inches smaller than a standard twin size mattress. That explains why your old sheets were too big.
You know from past experience that high thread count bed sheets are a better buy since there are more threads per square inch of fabric. High thread count sheets are more comfortable, wash better and last longer than bargain sheets with lower thread counts. The selection of colors on RVSheetSet.com is great and you are pleased that the sheet set includes a bottom sheet, top sheet, and pillow cases. Convinced that these are top quality cotton and cotton polyester RV bed sheets, you choose the 400 thread count sheets, knowing that camping really can be more comfortable.