First Time Buyer...Updated 03/06/2006

Mr.Mark wrote:
Vette, tell us about your "new-to-you" Fleetwood. How many slides does it have? How many miles?

I know that you and your wife will have a wonderful time traveling!

Mr.Mark

Hello Mr Mark,
We have been traveling for several years now, in fact we became diamond members of the Hilton/Hampton Inn group last year, we usually take a trip every month lasting from two weeks to as long as 6 weeks.
But this is a whole new ballgame for us in respect to the RV. This is our first RV, and from what we experienced on our first trip, I think this Expedition will work quite well for us for many years.

The Fleetwood Expedition is a 2005, 34h floor plan. The 34h has three slides, the living room wall, the whole galley and dinette area, and the bedroom slide. The engine is a C7 caterpillar turbocharged intercooled diesel that develops 860ft lbs TQ at 1400 RPM, and 300 HP about 2400. When we first looked at it the odometer had about 8980 miles, by the time I completed the test drive, it had turned over 9000. We are actually the third owners, the first owner had it for only 1500 miles, the second owners put the remaining mileage on during the 2006 summer.
The color scheme is the South Seas with the Fairfield Maple cabinets.
It came with the manual Satellite DirectTV dish, and a Kingdome 9702 automatic stationary system installed.
A panasonic 6 disc cd/dvd surround sound system, 6 disc cd/fm/am/Sirius sat radio, a 27" color tv up front and a 20" color tv in the bedroom. Also in the bedroom is the combo washer/dryer in a closet under the TV area.
It has a nice vanity sink, a full size glassed in shower in the necessary room, along with the basic required flushable equipment.
Norcold 4 door refridgerator/freezer with icemaker, two zone heat pumps and 2 zone 25,000 btu propane furnaces all commanded from one central thermostat control.
The chassis is the freightliner XC chassis.

Well, that's about the description, from what I could find on the 2005 Expedition, most everything comes as standard equipment, with a few things that were optional.
We just completed our first trip in it, we drove from Enterprise, Al to West Greenwich, RI for Thanksgiving. We surprised my wife's family by bringing our own bedroom. We got to experience just about everything on the first trip, day/night/rain/then snow/then ice pellets/very high cross winds,the hills of West Virginia, construction barriers that give nearly a half inch of clearance on either side,the traffic through White Plains, the Tappen Zee Bridge, toll booths, and of course the really pleasant drivers in the I-95 corridor through CT. Did we miss anything that we should go back for?
Oh, did I mention overnight subfreezing temps in West Va and PA. that froze the fresh water standpipes in a Flying J, so we killed 45 minutes trying to top off our fresh water tank. I can report that our furnace(s) worked so well we had to turn them way down for the night.
Well, I think that's about it for this trip report, I hope I didn't bore those who found it.