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Nothing wrong with just weekends.
Oh we know. We've been retired since I was 45 and we moved into our 36 foot HitchHiker fiver and did seven years of full time RVing. We loved every minute. No job, no Stix n Brix home, we just followed our noses seeing and meeting North America one person at a time. Stored our family flicks and pics, antiques and collectible heirlooms with Kids and parents. We bought the Fiver used and had bought the 1 ton Ram dually truck six months before in preparation. We did everything West of the Mississippi, and from Mexico up to and including Alaska. We both grew up in the world as military brats, her brother born in France, I went to kindergarten and first grade in Bogota Colombia S.A. in Spanish! Then we did 27 years USAF including eight years in Germany (yes we spoke German there too) Both of us lived in Florida as Kids and in the Northeast for my teens in the 60s. We traveled all of Europe on three day weekends and winters used all my 30 days of leave, and three day weekends to Ski all the best slopes in Austria, Switzerland, France, and one in Italy that started in Zermat Switzerland, around the Matterhorn, and down to Cervinia Italy. We dove the Red Sea for a week in 96 for our open water certification, then visited the Temple of Karnak, crossed the Nile by boat and saw Tut in his tomb. We are not done traveling, it's in our blood. So while our next adventures will be to do Australia, New Zealand, and Japan/China/India, and all that tentatively for now, we will have another RV. We started in our early 20s with a VW pop up Wesrphalia camper bus then a bare bones Coleman pop-up camper pulled by our Subaru Brat with camper shell. We hated the popup so I restored Seven VW campers. We winter camped in one in Colorado in 1979 and decided that winter camping with canvas walls up top wasn't for us. But we used several more VWs ending in Europe with our US Spec Eurovan. Then we moved into our first fiver, and after seven years switched to a 28 foot Sunnybrook fiver, and a Scamp until we sold it a few months ago before moving to Colorado with two Subarus, a new Forester and a 2006 Turbo Baja I had the engine rehabbed and replace weal head gaskets, timing belt and turbo. I'm already thinking of the new VW camper if they ever sell it in the US. But with AWD.
In other words, we haven't lost the itch, we were literally born to travel.
Don't worry, we aren't ever going to be done.
Safe travels my fellow travelers on spaceship Earth.
We kind of reached that situation too but if you work things out right you can make some mighty longe weekends. You know that they have 3 day weekends, just slip in a 0 and make30!
Kirk,
We moved to Colorado, no more hot humid summer nights! Even 90℉ is fine to sleep in when the humidity is 20%, sometimes less, give or take. We'll do short trips, not necessarily just weekends, we are retired you know. But as long as we are tied to a Stix n Brix never more than a weekend or week. Even with Ring video security which we already have, we like to back it up with our other .40 cal wireless security systems. Seriously though once our old pup leaves us, we are fine with longer airplane trips.
Well actually New Horizon builds their own frames and the frames are so solid that they will install a Hydrolift on the rear and this unit can haul a full dresser on the rear. And thanks,
At the super show in Tampa earlier this year, I spoke to Brian at the NH show trailer about that, he said they no longer will install them as they had too many complaints of bikes being damaged " shaken apart " is what he mentioned.
At the super show in Tampa earlier this year, I spoke to Brian at the NH show trailer about that, he said they no longer will install them as they had too many complaints of bikes being damaged " shaken apart " is what he mentioned.
That is the first I have head of that, when we were there in June they were still doing it. Things have changed I guess.
One other thing to consider is stairs inside. DW has RA and not having stairs inside the living area is a must.
At the super show in Tampa earlier this year, I spoke to Brian at the NH show trailer about that, he said they no longer will install them as they had too many complaints of bikes being damaged " shaken apart " is what he mentioned.
After reading your comment I reached out to Cole at NH because I certainly don't want to share bad info (not that I was questioning you) and as you said they are not offering the lift option any longer. Now that many of their units are in the 48' range they are getting comments of more bounce and are now suggesting the wheeled platform option in the rear. In fact they just did one that holds a Smart Car I see on their Facebook Page.
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