Dixie Flyer wrote:
Good morning. I would like to say that driving skills have to do with how good your health is and not so much as age. I am seventy-seven years old and still able to handle the big rig. We have a thirty-eight foot Montana and tow with a 2016 F250. I have my wife grade me on every trip on a scale of 1-10. 1 being the worse and 10 being the best. At the end of the day I ask her to tell me how I have done. When it gets to a 5 I will quit.
I have friends younger than me that have lost their ability to drive safely pulling the camper, It's sad to see them struggle and not want to give it up but the wife and I had a sit down talk with one of our friends and as much as it hurt to tell him it was time to give it up we felt we needed to be honest. Regardless when I hit seventy-eight I think it will be time to sell the camper and the truck and say it was a long haul and we enjoyed every minute of it.
Your eyes must be going. The title clearly says 70.....not 5!
Good morning. I would like to say that driving skills have to do with how good your health is and not so much as age. I am seventy-seven years old and still able to handle the big rig. We have a thirty-eight foot Montana and tow with a 2016 F250. I have my wife grade me on every trip on a scale of 1-10. 1 being the worse and 10 being the best. At the end of the day I ask her to tell me how I have done. When my wife gives me a grade five I will quit driving..
I have friends younger than me that have lost their ability to drive safely pulling the camper, It's sad to see them struggle and not want to give it up but the wife and I had a sit down talk with one of our friends and as much as it hurt to tell him it was time to give it up we felt we needed to be honest. Regardless when I hit seventy-eight I think it will be time to sell the camper and the truck and say it was a long haul and we enjoyed every minute of it.
I have friends younger than me that have lost their ability to drive safely pulling the camper, It's sad to see them struggle and not want to give it up but the wife and I had a sit down talk with one of our friends and as much as it hurt to tell him it was time to give it up we felt we needed to be honest. Regardless when I hit seventy-eight I think it will be time to sell the camper and the truck and say it was a long haul and we enjoyed every minute of it.
I am 81 and have decided to give up towing and traveling South for the winter. It is not because I can not drive and tow safely anymore but because I am too stiff and hurting for all the bending and things required to set up and take down the rig and do all the necessary things that come with travel via trailer.
My wife and I have had a good run (over 60 years) together and camping so it is now time to park the trailer in my sons beautiful family campground in the northern Michigan woods and use it as our "summer place" until we no longer can freely move about.
As far as letting this thread run, I think it is because of two main reasons.
1. It does not violate any of the forum rules.
2. Members, including me, are having fun with it and are enjoying most of the responses which have been civil and often very thoughtful.
Barney
Our trailers permanent home
My wife and I have had a good run (over 60 years) together and camping so it is now time to park the trailer in my sons beautiful family campground in the northern Michigan woods and use it as our "summer place" until we no longer can freely move about.
As far as letting this thread run, I think it is because of two main reasons.
1. It does not violate any of the forum rules.
2. Members, including me, are having fun with it and are enjoying most of the responses which have been civil and often very thoughtful.
Barney
Our trailers permanent home
