1 yr and 15,000 miles in our first MH
What we've learned...
Before you buy - Sit down and talk extensively about what kind of RVer you want to be. Where do you want to go? How often do you plan to go? How long do you plan to be gone? By doing this my wife discovered she DIDN'T want a 36 footer and we wound up with a 22'Pleasure Way Pursuit.
What to buy - Obviously, there are practical reasons why certain choices are made. If you don't want to spend your entire life's savings or already own a pick-up, then a TT or 5th wheel make perfect sense. But if you have the choice and you think the trip should be part of the fun, our advice is buy a MH. More specifically, the smallest one you can live with.
And if you get one small enough - RVing can be so much fun that you will wonder why you even wanted a TV in it. We take ours everywhere, shopping, to the park, joy rides, and every little fair and festival we can find. We have used it far more than we had anticipated.
Even when we go to resort destinations and stay in CGs, all we hook-up is electric so we remain very mobile. We have watched what is best described as the ritual all the big rigs must go through every time they come or go. And while their taking a pick-up, toad, or some resort trolley to the fun they came for, we are taking all of our amenities (and dogs) with us to the attraction.
Try to imagine how great it is to be minutes from home when the wife is entering her 12th cute little boutique and shows no sign of tiring. And sometimes she doesn't want to roam around the old fort.
The point is we spend so much more time at whatever the attraction is than most because we don't have to leave when one of us gets tired or we have to check on the dogs. Neither of us ever feel rushed when we are doing something that doesn't interest the other.
I don't mean for this to be a "my RV is better than your RV" kind of message. I just want to emphasize the virtues of the small MH. We make many concessions to have all this versatility.
Knowing what we wanted our RV life to be like was the key to us still believing after 15,000 miles that we bought the perfect (for us) RV.
Before you buy - Sit down and talk extensively about what kind of RVer you want to be. Where do you want to go? How often do you plan to go? How long do you plan to be gone? By doing this my wife discovered she DIDN'T want a 36 footer and we wound up with a 22'Pleasure Way Pursuit.
What to buy - Obviously, there are practical reasons why certain choices are made. If you don't want to spend your entire life's savings or already own a pick-up, then a TT or 5th wheel make perfect sense. But if you have the choice and you think the trip should be part of the fun, our advice is buy a MH. More specifically, the smallest one you can live with.
And if you get one small enough - RVing can be so much fun that you will wonder why you even wanted a TV in it. We take ours everywhere, shopping, to the park, joy rides, and every little fair and festival we can find. We have used it far more than we had anticipated.
Even when we go to resort destinations and stay in CGs, all we hook-up is electric so we remain very mobile. We have watched what is best described as the ritual all the big rigs must go through every time they come or go. And while their taking a pick-up, toad, or some resort trolley to the fun they came for, we are taking all of our amenities (and dogs) with us to the attraction.
Try to imagine how great it is to be minutes from home when the wife is entering her 12th cute little boutique and shows no sign of tiring. And sometimes she doesn't want to roam around the old fort.
The point is we spend so much more time at whatever the attraction is than most because we don't have to leave when one of us gets tired or we have to check on the dogs. Neither of us ever feel rushed when we are doing something that doesn't interest the other.
I don't mean for this to be a "my RV is better than your RV" kind of message. I just want to emphasize the virtues of the small MH. We make many concessions to have all this versatility.
Knowing what we wanted our RV life to be like was the key to us still believing after 15,000 miles that we bought the perfect (for us) RV.
