rbpru wrote:
Rent one, rent one, rent one; you will learn more in a week or ten days then all the opinions form the board.
You are talking big bucks and pulling one of these barns down the road has to be experience to know what it is like.
Also you are purchasing and ongoing project that you do not use then put way like a canoe. There is a fair amout of maintenance and up keep.
Travel is typically 250 miles a day, 60 mph and 10 mpg.
All of this is just rhetoric until you have experienced it.
This post nails it! DW and I love it. Youngest son and his wife don't like the journey. Too slow, too many stops, etc... They often drive their luxury sports car and meet up with us. YS can tow but finds it boring. Older son, wife, and two kids love the journey! OS loves to tow. After we unhitch and set up they go stay in a rental house, cabin, efficiency, whatever's nearby. They don't like staying in the TT even if they have it to themselves. Oldest son has autism. Needs his routines. Hates all of it and wants to walk home from wherever we stop... As we pull away from his house he says, "okay, home now! Where we goin?, okay, home now!" He will repeat the same sentence over and over again for hours. As soon as we stop he gets out of the van and says, "okay, bye now. I'm walkin." And will walk in the direction from where we came. As a child we could convince him that wherever we were was home. As an adult he wants his house and his house only. Point is, it's not for everyone and testing it out before dumping a bunch of money into it is a good idea.
