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Jim_Shoe
Nov 02, 2015Explorer
My first RV was a Roadtrek. If I were you, I'd rent one first. They may be better now than the one I had. For starters, it was on a Dodge chassis. Dodge went belly up. Maybe the running gear is better now. It was terribly underpowered. It would downshift going over a bump in the road. (Slight exaggeration).
I fell in love with everything doing double duty. The dinette was also the bed. The toilet was also a closet. the kitchen was also the shower because that's where the drain was. And all the double duty were things were compromises.
But the biggest problem for me was that I'm a visitor. The CG is just where I park to see what I came to see. More than once, when I returned to the CG, my spot was taken. So I had to pack everything up just to go to the grocery store. Finally, it took two parking spaces on the street, often having to feed two meters, and it was too high for a parking garage.
I traded it in for a 'C', pulling a Jeep Wrangler toad. Now I'm happy and I hope that whoever got the Roadtrek is happy, too.
I fell in love with everything doing double duty. The dinette was also the bed. The toilet was also a closet. the kitchen was also the shower because that's where the drain was. And all the double duty were things were compromises.
But the biggest problem for me was that I'm a visitor. The CG is just where I park to see what I came to see. More than once, when I returned to the CG, my spot was taken. So I had to pack everything up just to go to the grocery store. Finally, it took two parking spaces on the street, often having to feed two meters, and it was too high for a parking garage.
I traded it in for a 'C', pulling a Jeep Wrangler toad. Now I'm happy and I hope that whoever got the Roadtrek is happy, too.
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