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sleepy
Aug 05, 2015Explorer
In 1963 the Interstate highway construction came through the Kanawha Valley as I-64.... the valley was never the same again. Janet and I lived onMontrose Drive in South Charleston (WV)
There was a booming house trailer business.... we moved from a large 3 story house into a 10' x 50' trailer with two tip outs.... one in the kitchen, one in the Living room.
Thank goodness that it didn't have an engine.... we didn't have enough room as it was.
The trailer parks had about 10 feet between trailers.... of course people called them Mobilhomes... HA Ha!
We moved to Tennessee to get away from the cremped up housing and the lack of available good housing.... the best land was under I-64 and still is.
We like our completely self contained truck camper... we are very mobil.... and have never spent a night in a place we didn't want to be.... if we don't pay for parking and hookups we don't feel the necessity to stay just because we paid in advance for a horrible experience in a RV trailer park...
A side note:
We have been all over North America.... we have never passed a transmission shop that didn't have at least one Class a or C motorhome in the bay or in tha parking lot.
After seeing the transmission problems that MH's seem to have... A question please; when your MH breaks down where do you stay while it is being repaired? If my truck should break down I would just buy another truck and put our truck camper on it and keep traveling...
Just things to think about...
Chet
There was a booming house trailer business.... we moved from a large 3 story house into a 10' x 50' trailer with two tip outs.... one in the kitchen, one in the Living room.
Thank goodness that it didn't have an engine.... we didn't have enough room as it was.
The trailer parks had about 10 feet between trailers.... of course people called them Mobilhomes... HA Ha!
We moved to Tennessee to get away from the cremped up housing and the lack of available good housing.... the best land was under I-64 and still is.
We like our completely self contained truck camper... we are very mobil.... and have never spent a night in a place we didn't want to be.... if we don't pay for parking and hookups we don't feel the necessity to stay just because we paid in advance for a horrible experience in a RV trailer park...
A side note:
We have been all over North America.... we have never passed a transmission shop that didn't have at least one Class a or C motorhome in the bay or in tha parking lot.
After seeing the transmission problems that MH's seem to have... A question please; when your MH breaks down where do you stay while it is being repaired? If my truck should break down I would just buy another truck and put our truck camper on it and keep traveling...
Just things to think about...
Chet
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