The dealership sponsors a camping club. Their first trip of this season was Memorial Day weekend. So I borrowed a used motor home from stock and we went. Amy got to get back into a motor home not too dissimilar from what we had back then. Jareth got to experience camping--which he loved totally. Kayla got a lot of outside fresh air, which she seemed to like.
A good time all around, but there was some sadness to it. It was great fun and very relaxing. The stress went away, but it was back before we had finished unpacking when we got home. It also reminded us how much we miss it.
There's a feeling of freedom about a motor home. You can just decide to go somewhere...and go. There's no hooking up a trailer, there's no setting up a camper when you get there. You don't end up driving to get to a destination. The vacation, the journey, starts as soon as you leave the driveway.
We want to keep camping with that group. We want to do some of our own trips. And we don't want to have to borrow something to do it. So now we're shopping for a class C motor home of our own. We've got it partly narrowed down to brands we do and don't like, based partly on the height from the floor up to the bed over the cab. That's going to be Jareth's bed, and he has to be able to get up and down on his own. There's about a full foot of difference from brand to brand.
We pretty much know what we need in a floorplan. We still need to know what kind of budget we're really looking at, which I think I can have figured out by next week. Then it's just a matter of finding one. The owner at the dealership is in a group of 20 dealers that get together and compare notes. They're from all over the country so that they're never in competition with each other, and can help each other out. Once we know what we're looking for, he'll contact those other dealers and see if any of them have one. He'll get them from the other dealer, probably at cost plus any involved freight, then I pay something along the lines of that new cost plus probably about $500. Now that's an employee discount. :-)
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