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JCGibson
Mar 30, 2015Explorer
rgatijnet1 wrote:
How do you travel? Short trips close by or long trips across the country? How many miles per year? How long do you plan to keep it? Are you capable of doing your own maintenance?
Our travel year is usually filled with about 10 or so weekend trips in spring and fall, mostly just within 100 miles (Branson MO, Table Rock Lake). My wife is a teacher (I am retired AF) so summers have a lot of 3-5 day at a time trips (about 7-10), up to 200-300 miles away. Then also during the summer we have one long trip, usually 2-4 weeks, about 1000+ miles. Our grand total of camping days per year is about 75-100 and about 4-6K miles.
Plan to keep the class A about 5-7 years. We have in the past usually only kept a camping unit for 2-3 years, however, they haven't been as pricey as a Class A.
I am pretty handy as I do most of the work on my diesel truck and cars and have worked on other various cars to restore them.
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