Camping in a Motor Home
Smitty, Margie and Ford in front of our motor home.Back in about 1977 or near then, we bought a motor home. We drove to Richmond, Indiana to buy it. It was brand new. We had looked at some used ones but most of them were junky and dirty so we decided to get the brand new one.
We never, in all the time we had it, got more than about 7 miles per gallon (Thank God we don't have it now with the high gas prices).
We really loved the motor home and it was an ideal way to travel but as for being any cheaper to travel with, that was a joke. We had to pay every night we stopped at KOAs and other travel parks at least about $12 or more per night to stay there. And it was more if you hooked up to the sewer and electricity facilities.
After having it for about three or four years we found that we could travel in our car, stay at motels, and eat in restaurants cheaper than we could drive the motor home.
Even though we loved traveling in the motor home, it was very expensive. Not to mention that even if we didn't go anywhere and let it sit our driveway we still were spending about $7 0r $8 hundred a year for taxes, license and insurance.
After a few years of taking that beating, we decided that we had had enough and we sold it. That is when we discovered that we should have gone with the used motor home. We lost about half of our money because we had to sell at such a low price. If we had bought the used one we probably could have sold it for about the same amount we paid for it. We went with a pop up camper after that.
Now I don't camp any more and I sold the pop up camper several years ago. I loved the years we camped but it was a lot of work and it was not very cheap! Now I am happy to lie down in my bed at night and not worry about packing up all of the camping supplies for a trip home and then a couple of days cleaning up a camper and getting things put away. That is for young people!
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/17/2008 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
I love camping -- in a Hyatt Regency Hotel!
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