On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 09:18:11 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/28/2014 9:02 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:44:33 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 12/27/2014 5:51 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:36:24 -0500, Let it snowe
wrote:

On 12/26/2014 11:36 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 12/24/14 12:30 PM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:21:11 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 12/24/14 11:56 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:13:35 -0500, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:09:12 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:39:20 -0500, Keyser Söze
wrote:


I wouldn't mind spending some vacation time in Montana, especially after
reading Norman Maclean's wonderfully descriptive writings.

Montana is nice but good accommodations are particularly pricy. You
jump straight from the "Super 8" to $300 a night in the places we
were. There are lots of wild woods camping opportunities tho if that
works for you. Yeah me neither ;-)
There are lots of great hiking trails but you have to look for them.
They are not all that well documented. If you like falling water and
walking on trails by yourself it is worth looking.

Sounds like a great place to take an RV.

Yup there are plenty of opportunities to go off the grid for a night
or two and then get to a full service park to freshen up the RV.



The maid doesn't come into the RV the morning, make up the beds, vacuum,
clean the bathroom, take out the trash?

In an RV, doing all that takes only about a half hour. Not worth
hiring a maid for.


Ahh, so there is more time to order breakfast from room service!

Who the hell wants to eat in their room?

Have a heart. The bed bugs and roaches have to eat too.

...and other people's cooties and creepy-crawlies.



Really depends on the quality of the hotel you choose. For example the
place I stayed in South Carolina was outstanding. Clean and bug free.

When we had the house in Florida we bought a brand new Pace Arrow Class
A motor home thinking it would be ideal to travel back and forth to MA
in. Put in a concrete slab in the yard in Florida and ran power to it
underground. We drove it down there shortly after we bought it and
within a month it had more creepy-crawlies living in it than anything
I've ever seen in a hotel or house for that matter. Those Florida ants
made a huge nest in one of the overhead compartments above the driver's
seat. Had to fumigate the RV to get rid of them all.

Later with the Sprinter a chipmunk family made themselves at home in the
compartment behind the TV. I notice some red stains on the walls
under the TV one day and pulled the TV out. The chipmunks had stored
red berries from some kind of tree on our property in the compartment
along with piles of "bedding" material. They also chewed through
several of the video and audio cables for the TV so it no longer worked.
Another multi-day project of cleaning, shampooing and
rewiring.

One problem with an RV is that if you aren't in it and using it
regularly many little creatures will make themselves at home.
If motorized, it's important to check under the hood too. Mice love
making nests in the engine compartment, usually in the air intake
manifolding for the engine.

I can't imagine why you kept buying the damn things!



Most were purchased when we had the place(s) in Florida. Kept thinking
it would be a good way to travel back and forth but it never worked out.
Once on the road I always wanted to get there in as short of a time as
possible.

The RV phase for us was probably something like the gun purchase routine
you are into.

That was cute.

Kept trying different ones searching for the
one that we liked.

I like all the one's I have. I don't have a .22, which is why I bought
one.

The Pace Arrow was a POS. The fifth wheel was a
pain in the ass. Best were the Chinook Glacier and the Sprinter in
terms of quality but again I found that if you didn't use them regularly
they became problematic, mostly with critters making themselves at home.

RVing and camping isn't for everyone.

Truer words were never spoken.