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Eager to show off their newborn, Jay Beagle and wife Ashley needed to get from Washington, D.C., to Calgary.

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Doctors had recommended that their two-week-old son, because of immune concerns, stay out of airports and airplanes.

Solution: The couple purchased a motorhome and, in comfort, Brandt made his first cross-country trek.

“Pretty fun trip, actually. Fun to do it with the family,” Beagle says of the three-day journey in May 2014. “I’m a crazy driver — once I get going, I get going. I don’t really like to stop. And with the motorhome, it was easy to just keep going.”

Motorhomes are not usually associated with professional hockey players, who, typically, are more Humvee than RV.

“The boys said I’m such a redneck,” Beagle recalls of his Capitals teammates’ response to the end-of-season purchase. “I’m backwoods — I like to hunt and fish. I like to get out in the woods as much as I can. And the motorhome? It’s nice living. Almost like being spoiled.”