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Re: Opinions on Class A Quality
We are starting to look for another coach too. Our old 1992 is showing its age. Though my husband keeps up with the repairs its getting to be to many. We looked at a 2006 Excursion and it was very nice and we felt a fair price. we don't want to spend more then about $80000 maybe $85 as we want to pay cash and not finance it. so that will get us another older coach but hopefully one that has been maintained. However after having an Eagle its hard to get something else, the quality of this one has been good. This will put us in the 2003 or 2004 age range. I have seen several that seem to be well maintained, we will just have to select a few and go see them and drive them. My husband will have to check them over. One of the main things we want are slides, gets mighty small in here for hubby, our dog, myself, and the cat though she doesn't take up much room. Also when we take our daughter with us we need more room. Good hunting for you and us.429Views0likes0CommentsRe: Quartzsite snowbirds not here..Update They have arrived.
I think many younger folks just don't have the money. You need good jobs with security, union wages, pensions, etc to afford to travel and have leisure. Also a lot of folks are dying off or getting to old to travel that were in those kinds of jobs. It's a different world for many younger folks anymore. DD and I came out last year, it was neat but nothing I would drive across the US to see annually. We are in Texas now and in March heading for Florida.482Views0likes0CommentsRe: things stolen in Scadden Wash (Quartzsite)
DD and I went there last year, we had a great time. I stayed at a nice campground on one of the main drags. I'm not much on boondocking, no issues at the campground. There was really only 1 decent grocery with not much selection but his meat was good. We drove maybe 80 miles ?? round trip to a Walmart to get major supplies. It was fun to visit, not sure I will go back but was a good trip.298Views0likes0CommentsRe: Tips for reducing set-up time?
DD travels with me but she cannot help. I pull in, level, push button, air lets out jacks come down, that's it. Hook up water, electric, and sewer, done. Takes me at most half an hour, I would be exhausted doing that 1.5 hours each time. I rarely unhook the toad when traveling, we either eat before stopping, I cook, or we have something I can heat in the microwave. I hook up sewer because many nights I do a load of clothes. And yes depending on how far I've driven, I check the oil and also check the tranny fluid while level and hot in neutral. I will run the car for a bit either night or morning.145Views0likes0CommentsRe: light weight towing package for woman
I have a Demco alumilite. They said the regular one is about 50 pounds heavier. I am a woman and though its somewhat heavy I can take the tow bar and rock guard out of the receiver and put it back in alone. Not super easy but I can do it.495Views0likes0CommentsRe: help! unable to fill propane tank in rv
I may not understand the issue. I have a 92 Eagle and they had trouble filling my tank. No one knew how anymore. There was a button underneath they had to push before the tank would take propane, otherwise it wouldn't flow. The older guys were familiar with it, it was on old rigs, but it got to be a real issue finding someone that could do it. So couple years ago in Orlando I found a private shop that would empty my tank, put on a new valve that is like what everyone uses now. A plus was they had to recertify the tank, we were concerned they might have to replace it, but the shop guy said that was very rare. They recertified, I now have a valve that anyplace can fill and all is well. I was also happy to know my tank was safe too. They said anytime they do something like that they have to pressure test the tank to make sure its ok. Just throwing this in, in case it might pertain to you.974Views0likes0CommentsRe: The death of a motorhome
We bought ours and it had set for at least 5 years from the date of the safety sticker and some other papers I found, that took quite a toll on it. I think what happened with it was the folks that owned it were in construction. Well we know what happened during the recession, I think they likely couldn't afford it and let it set and must have finally sold it. I'm guessing it was under covered storage for part of that but likely during part was not. They could have gotten more out of it if it had been cared for but like you say people do funny things. At least they finally sold it. I don't plan letting it set if I quit using it, but it is old and I doubt someone else will spend what is required to keep an old one going. I would hope so as we have repaired and updated it. I need to do some cosmetics inside also. Just hope someone eventually takes the old girl and continues with her when I'm done. I too hate to see things like this just allowed to rot down.425Views0likes0CommentsRe: Torn between full time RVing and aging parents.
Mine is a little different but issues. Mom did help when the kids were little, my dad was killed in a construction accident 6 months before he retired. Mom was left in good financial condition and good health. She cried and went on how you just don't know, they didn't get along that well! She had quite a few boyfriends and the last one was a gem, she traveled all over. Oh she dropped the kids after dad died never to care for them again. I have a mentally challenged DD and it was hell. I worked for many years, she was latch key, left more then she should have been, no begging to either family would get any help. We had to leave the area because work died here and that was their excuse. I missed work, worked myself to death and stressed to keep a job. My husband worked on construction usually 6 or 7 days a week, left before the sun was up and home after it was set. Fast forward, mom gets older and sicker, a lot of it self imposed because of poor eating habits and shall I say more alcohol for someone with stomach issues to have. I would come home eventually on every vacation and get her better or take her home with me for a few months till I could make the rounds of doctors and get her better. This was after her boyfriend got lupus and at that age others were to old or ill to take her anymore. She ran her friends ragged. But she got glaucoma, whether she knew or tried to hide it who knows but when she had to quit driving for her that was the end. I took her to Houston, she had surgeries and stopped the advance of it but to much sight had been lost. She was at the house for sometime but wanted our mentally challenged daughter to stay home and care for her. I would leave food, do everything and she wouldn't even heat it. I tried coming home from work to feed them, well you know how long that lasted. I had to quit, then tried real estate, didn't like it, did part time temp work making nothing. Talk about depressed I lost my retirement everything. Yes, I'm sure I sound bitter, I was an only child also. Finally it was effecting our marriage and DD got very ill. She was hospitalized and all mom could think of is being dressed up and ready to go somewhere. She would be like that everyday when I came home from work. I finally started looking for assisted living. She by then had COPD, some heart issues, couldn't see good, but wanted to run all the time, had no interests. She would call constantly and as hubby says you better go or she will be ill and have to go to the doctor or hospital, most of the docs just finally told her there wasn't anything they could do it was for the most part just old age. This went on for some time in the hospital and out, finally I had to put her in a nursing home, she only lasted a few months after that. I think she couldn't go all the time and just quit living. I did it and as hubby says you know you did all you could, but it took a toll on me in many ways My folks had me older, so now MIL is 88. We moved back because the neighbors said she was having issues. I didn't mind moving back so much, it is nice here and I planned on traveling, my husband kept wanting me to wait, to wait, in my 60's I said are you going to retire and go with me? Well no, he didnt' have much interest in traveling, he goes all over the world and has for 14 years so why would he? I got my motorhome, he takes care of it, pays for all of it, and doesn't mind so I got to start traveling some maybe 6 years ago but not like I wanted to. Now we are here with MIL, there is no talking to her. She has dementia or alzheimers, so did her mom, brother, and sister has it who lives next door to her off and on. I have tried to get her to a doc, she doesn't eat enough, she is losing weight. She doesn't remember things. I explained docs won't cure her but could help her have a better quality of life, nope. By the way had no help from them at all, Fil passed about 10 years ago, he would have been impossible to deal with. So here we are. She really needs to be in assisted living, I've talked till I'm blue in the face. She is coming up for an eye exam for her license, couldn't pass it a few months ago, but she didn't have her glasses. I told hubby when he is home he can take her, then it won't be me doing anything to her so he is. But I can't do anything with her or for her. I talked to her elderly neighbors and told them I'm going, I did last winter but only for a month. This time I'm going for Jan, back for Feb when hubby is home then leaving again for March and April. I will be 69, don't drive at night now, have health issues with our DD, she is hospitalized periodically for health and some psychiatric issues the last few years so if I don't go I never will. Unless she will listen to her son we figure it will take a guardianship proceeding to get her in a facility. With hubbies family history, mine doesn't have alzheimers or dementia in it, long lived and healthy, his is long lived, we have our wills POA's etc so ready for all that. I don't want battles like that. WE have no one to take care of us, I will likely have to keep DD till I'm 80. Our son lives and works overseas and I don't expect him to disrupt his life like I had to. So folks, go, have fun, I'm going to, I waited long enough. Don't know how this will turn out, but I'm leaving next Monday. Sorry for the length of this but man for me its not just parents but DD and it will never end for me, some of us never get a reprieve. And yes do I get depressed, yes I do but pull myself out of it. Life is what you make it. And everyone have a Very Merry Christmas!!527Views0likes0Comments
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