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Re: Anyone make a mistake buying first MH ?
We did it! We bought and then 6 months later, bought again. As so many do, we thought we should start out small and we did. We bought, at a show in New Orleans, a 21' Gulfstream BTCruiser. We loved it. I carried a 400cc Bergman 'Scooter' on a hitch mounted carrier and it served us well. OK, maybe a little tail heavy with the 374 lb scooter on the back. At the end of our first 8000 trip we went to a ralley at Gulfstream just for BTCruisers. It was fantastic, but unfortunately, we made some new friends there. They had a 2 foot longer model with a single slide. We quickly figured out that our adament refusal to have a slide was a mistake. Sooo, with our new friends encouragement, we traded our 2004 in for a 2005--2 feet longer and one slide. We took a hit, but we loved the new one more. But the biggest benefit, was the extra 3 feet of wheel base--2 feet more camper, but THREE feet more wheel base. It has made the scooter almost 'disappear' when driving. We also got more head and galley spade. All-in-all, we paid for our mistake. But we looked at like this--we could drive the unit we no longer liked for 5 years and then trade it, or we could just take our lumps and get what we wanted. By the way, we are completely happy with 23' as we don't ever want to be 'stopped out' of going into some park because of length. We can still pull into a regular parking place in Wal-Mart with this one--although the scooter does make it iffy.517Views0likes0Comments
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