Pros and Cons of owning a class A RV

3 years ago I was bored and decided I wanted to start Rving so I started looking at motor homes and towables. I loved them all! I eventually started dragging my husband to dealerships and RV shows. He tried to put me off by telling me we would talk about in 5 years when he retires. After continually looking and dragging him places we finally agreed that we would have to start "cheap" because we didn't know if we would enjoy it. Because the only truck we had was a Toyota Tacoma and we would need to buy a bigger more expensive truck in order to pull a towable, we decided to look for an older motorhome. Shortly after that decision, I saw online that a local dealership had taken in a short diesel pusher as a trade-in over the weekend. Monday morning I looked at it and called my husband and we ended up buying our 1999 Safari Sahara for about $35,000. The salesperson told us up front to set aside $5,000 for repairs. We love our old motor home! We do mostly local camping but we've taken it to Texas and South Dakota. When traveling on long trips, I put food in a crockpot that sits in the sink. The food is ready when we stop about 6 hours later. We plug in, put out the slide, use the automatic levelers and we are done for the night. It is just that easy in the morning when we are ready to leave. For a toad, we bought a 2009 Saturn Vue for about $10,000. We've thought about upgrading, we've looked, but we've decided to just update the furnishing in our coach. Our old Safari is built like a draft horse. It will continue to run as long as we take care of it.