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Tell me about your full time home. What reason did you pick the rig you are in?
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Finally purchasing my RV and full time home was a multi-year journey. Originally, when my wife was still alive, we’d planned on a large 5th wheel with slide-outs and a heavy-duty 4X4 tow vehicle. After cancer took my wife’s life I decided to move ahead on the plan, but with a 34’ Avion TT. Then in 2011 I took a 4,500 mile road trip in my Dodge Caravan. After the trip realized I’d gained quite a bit of weight, mostly from eating truck stop junk food (yes, I’m a junk food junky!) and making poor meal choices. Based on that experience, I decided that a Class A pulling a Toad was the way to go. That way if I needed a pit stop, or it was meal time, all I needed to do was pull off the road. The only time I needed to visit a truck stop was to take on fuel, and I could do all that out at the pump.
After much research (because of my profession research comes naturally to me) I decided on a Holiday Rambler, mainly because of their reputation for quality and the fact that they were built with an aluminum body shell and internal frame work. I couldn’t afford much, and I thought I was going to have to get an 80’s vintage HR to keep costs down (they also have beautiful interiors). Then fortune smiled on me and I wound up purchasing the 1994 Holiday Rambler that’s shown in my profile. I’ve been living in “Escape Plan” for two months now and love it. Towards the end of September, when the Texas weather cools down, , I’m going to do about $2K worth of deferred maintenance and repairs and then it’ll be off on the first of what I hope to be many annual North American tours.
Overall the floor plan was very important to me. I wanted a mid-bathroom, I’m tall so a shower with a skylight was a feature I wanted and got. I wanted a kitchen/dinette area that was separate from the “living room” space. I’m currently using the dinette as a computer work station. The rig also needed ample storage space. The end result, I soon learned, was that I needed a rig longer than 30’. To be frank, my 33’ Holiday Rambler would be better if it were 36’ long, with a bit more kitchen counter space. I should be able to fix that issue with some remodeling, however I’ve decided to live in the rig for a year before I embark on any type of major remodeling projects.
Steve
After much research (because of my profession research comes naturally to me) I decided on a Holiday Rambler, mainly because of their reputation for quality and the fact that they were built with an aluminum body shell and internal frame work. I couldn’t afford much, and I thought I was going to have to get an 80’s vintage HR to keep costs down (they also have beautiful interiors). Then fortune smiled on me and I wound up purchasing the 1994 Holiday Rambler that’s shown in my profile. I’ve been living in “Escape Plan” for two months now and love it. Towards the end of September, when the Texas weather cools down, , I’m going to do about $2K worth of deferred maintenance and repairs and then it’ll be off on the first of what I hope to be many annual North American tours.
Overall the floor plan was very important to me. I wanted a mid-bathroom, I’m tall so a shower with a skylight was a feature I wanted and got. I wanted a kitchen/dinette area that was separate from the “living room” space. I’m currently using the dinette as a computer work station. The rig also needed ample storage space. The end result, I soon learned, was that I needed a rig longer than 30’. To be frank, my 33’ Holiday Rambler would be better if it were 36’ long, with a bit more kitchen counter space. I should be able to fix that issue with some remodeling, however I’ve decided to live in the rig for a year before I embark on any type of major remodeling projects.
Steve
