Great & Mighty Richardo: <8-April vehicle pic>
b1-66er: Living LARGE!
GM: <16-April> Going to be passing through Las Vegas. Completing our RV relocation. Normally would meet you for meal, but nothing is normal yet. So we might just fly on through and meet you next time we're in town.
b1: Sure.
Thanks for the thought.
How has the RV passage been?
GM: It's been great. Did some interesting things.
<canyon pic>
Grand Canyon interesting.
I am glad that I did it. I'm in an RV park in Boulder City. Driving this is way different than driving a car as you would expect. It does not handle well in the wind. (And we had our share of wind on this trip so that was challenging.)
The finances on this, in my view, do not work. We averaged 9mpg for 2200 miles. So that means if the RV was free (which it was in our case) it would be cheaper to drive a normal car and stay in hotels every night.
You have to ask yourself: how much is the premium to be in an RV worth?
I've driven a semi so I have the background for this beast. I can't imagine someone who hasn't used gears to go down mountain passes to a avoid overheating the brakes.
Our RV had 2100 miles on it when we picked it up and the side rear was scraped.
That is not a surprise.
I really enjoyed this trip but don't see myself doing it again. I love driving a car and staying in hotels. The flexibility is cheaper and in my view more fun.
(We had to bail on going to a golf course because of a low clearance bridge, for example.)
Those are my thoughts on RV life.
It's been a great trip, but I don't see myself doing it RV again.
