HERE TO SHARE THE ADVENTURE RETIREMENT AND HEALTH ALLOWS. REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY !! Charlie & Heather.
Our Travel House
Sunday, July 1, 2012
WOW !! Found a newer motorhome!!
In preperation to dump our stix & bricks, we were advertiseing some stuff on a local radio staion's swap shop and heard an ad about a motorhome, locally.We jumped in the car and took a ride to look at it. Found a TLC'd 1988 Chevy powered "Titan". It's been garage kept and very well taken care of..the owner is a craftsman and has a lot of "special features" woodwork wise. It has 69K miles and a 454CI Chevy drivetrain..got a very good $$$$ price on it. We looked at each other and decided that this rig was calling our name so we bought it. The owner had just advertised it, had 3 calls on it while were there!!.We got it home, cleaned it up according to our specs and started moving our stuff into it..We were suprised how much "stuff" got transferred!! Took hours!!..Been checking it out and doing a few modifications like adding racks to the closets. Sure is a lot more room in this new rig due to a few more feet in length. We gained a bedroom space too!. This "new" rig, to us, has new tires, brakes,exhaust and other features that showed pride of ownership. Only 69K miles and service records! I was happy to see it'd been used lately. The owner had a heart attack and his better half didn't want to drive a Class A so he bought a Class C, which she will drive. He definately loved this rig but had to make a decision to enable future travels. He told us,honestly, all about it's pros and cons and we decided we could handle the cons. which are all minor. As you know, if you have followed our blog, we did quite a bit of heavy repairs on our last rig, the Tioga. So...to make a long story short, we've upgraded fron a 1982 to a 1988 motorhome..We're H-A-P-P-Y. that's all that counts (& WE PAID CASH---NO PAYMENTS !!) Now, the big challenge is to sell our beloved TIOGA. She gave us 3 trouble free years and is looking forward to a few more..We hope all our blog followers have as much fun with life as we do..REMEMBER--LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS LIFE GOES BY QUICKlY......Charlie & Heather
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Happy for you all. Look forward to pics. We are loving our Puma more each time we get out in her!
ReplyDeleteYour "new to you" rig sounds very nice - good find!
ReplyDeleteWe also plan on making Florida our home base and we arrive there on Nov. 1 and stay til 4/15. While there we will look for a condo - (some real good prices down there) and we figure we will at some point only 1/2 time in our RV and stay in Fl for the winters.
Right now we tuned into the Bonita Springs - Punta Gorda areas. Time will tell.