@Raymond: Thanks so much for your reply and suggestions. We have our inspection (and our 5-7 hours training on how to do everything in the rig) on Thursday, and we're hoping to take possession that night to leave on our weekend adventure on Friday. I will ask and see if our RV friend (who is also a mechanic by trade) can tag along. Great idea, thanks!
That said, if anything looks wonky during our inspection, we may have to just *not* take possession and postpone the trip. Our dealer has a great reputation, is local (7 miles away), and has nine big rig service bays, so we're optimistic about timelines on service, but I could be quite naive in that regard.
The dealership already dewinterized for us, but I suspect there will be things we really can't know until we actually run the rig through its paces (particularly water and sewer). We're pretty handy and don't mind fixing a few things like that. We have also done some driving with it already (a few test drives), and all of that seems well so far, but that was not, of course, hours on the road. I guess we'll find out about that, too.
I will say, we are having a ball figuring out how to furnish the Bounder (thinking "light"). :) And I am actually learning how to drive the rig (I want DH to be able to be reprieved if he needs to be).
Thank you for the tips of about National Parks. DH is 61, I'm 57, so we're still shy of the 62 yo cut off on the senior park passes. And DH is still working full time, so we think the big trips will have to wait a couple of years. We're planning to do many smaller trips starting out to work the kinks out and get our RV sea legs solidly beneath us, and then when DH retires (maybe 5 years max), we'll have a better idea what we're doing. And then we can really hit the road! :) After that, our hope is to be gone months at a time, traveling all over the USA.
LOL... now I want DH to retire early!!
So thank you! Enjoy your own travels. And be safe.
All the best to you!
Joan
@Raymond: Thanks so much for your reply and suggestions. We have our inspection (and our 5-7 hours training on how to do everything in the rig) on Thursday, and we're hoping to take possession that night to leave on our weekend adventure on Friday. I will ask and see if our RV friend (who is also a mechanic by trade) can tag along. Great idea, thanks!
That said, if anything looks wonky during our inspection, we may have to just *not* take possession and postpone the trip. Our dealer has a great reputation, is local (7 miles away), and has nine big rig service bays, so we're optimistic about timelines on service, but I could be quite naive in that regard.
The dealership already dewinterized for us, but I suspect there will be things we really can't know until we actually run the rig through its paces (particularly water and sewer). We're pretty handy and don't mind fixing a few things like that. We have also done some driving with it already (a few test drives), and all of that seems well so far, but that was not, of course, hours on the road. I guess we'll find out about that, too.
I will say, we are having a ball figuring out how to furnish the Bounder (thinking "light"). :) And I am actually learning how to drive the rig (I want DH to be able to be reprieved if he needs to be).
Thank you for the tips of about National Parks. DH is 61, I'm 57, so we're still shy of the 62 yo cut off on the senior park passes. And DH is still working full time, so we think the big trips will have to wait a couple of years. We're planning to do many smaller trips starting out to work the kinks out and get our RV sea legs solidly beneath us, and then when DH retires (maybe 5 years max), we'll have a better idea what we're doing. And then we can really hit the road! :) After that, our hope is to be gone months at a time, traveling all over the USA.
LOL... now I want DH to retire early!!
So thank you! Enjoy your own travels. And be safe.
All the best to you!
Joan