I thought an update was in order. Well we attended the RV show in Hersey for a couple days and instead of heading home on Sunday as planned, we attended another show near Baltimore (Timonium, Maryland). We had a great time and learned a lot and no we didn't buy anything, but it was oh so tempting.
The Hersey show was fantastic, it was unbelievably huge! The Timonium show was much smaller, but still nice. The prices at both shows seemed similar. We were told that these are the lowest prices we'd see. Is that true? The sales people were all very helpful and not pushy at all. We spent an entire day just looking at all of different types of RVs (some were absolutely amazing) and we even stopped in the a lot of the other vendor tents just to see what they were selling. Then on the second day we narrowed our search down our search to two things, TTs with agreeable layouts that we can safely tow and then we look for TTs that we'd buy if we upgraded our truck. So now we have a fairly good idea of what we like and what we don't. Unfortunately, our two favorite lite "tow-able" TTs featured brand new layouts, so we stand zero chance of buying one of those used, hopefully we'll get close.
So now our immediate plan is to look for a used TT that is within our tow vehicles capabilities. We'll probably keep that TT for a year, maybe two, just so we can get some RVing experience under our belt. Even though my truck has been garaged and only has 58K miles on it, it is almost 14 years old so it's towing days are numbered. Who knows maybe at the next PA RV show we'll have a new truck and we'll trade in the old TT and buy a new one.
We were very impressed with the caliber of the sales people at the show. They all seemed to know their products well and almost never said anything bad about their competition. I was afraid that some would try to lead us towards TT that were too heavy and none did. They almost all asked what we were planning to tow with and they would steer towards TTs that were within limits.
I'd like to thank you all for you input, it was all very helpful.
