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Dave---sure does make my pup tent look pretty cheesy!!! Hope the wife don't see this.---Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Dave---sure does make my pup tent look pretty cheesy!!! Hope the wife don't see this.---Brian

Brian - it's an Ontario made RV - so you should be impressed that I'm thinking of our Northern friends and neighbors. Pup tents - after 2 years with my Uncle Sam's military and being in the combat engineers - never, never again

Dave---I was being a bit facetious. I haven't slept in a tent for about 40 years. Kathy and I have "evolved" from tents to a camper trailer to a slide in truck camper to hotel rooms. I'm so damned crippled up with arthritis this year that if I slept in a pup tent for one night they could just dig a hole beside the tent and roll me into it and then put up a headstone!!!---Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Dave---I was being a bit facetious. I haven't slept in a tent for about 40 years. Kathy and I have "evolved" from tents to a camper trailer to a slide in truck camper to hotel rooms. I'm so damned crippled up with arthritis this year that if I slept in a pup tent for one night they could just dig a hole beside the tent and roll me into it and then put up a headstone!!!---Brian

Brian - ya just never know. I worked with a guy who thought one of the "finest" things in life was to go wandering in the Adirondacks in the -20F winter with a 2 man tent, then climb sheer rock faces covered with ice. I thought he was nuts, but to each his own.

I do have to say that we occasionally secumb to the luxuries of hotel life - like our recent Florida vacation!!

Dave, that's one luxurious looking RV, it should be called the Highway Hilton. I wish I had known you were looking at Lazy Days and Bates, I live only a few miles from each, I passed them both for years going back and forth to work. I would have loved to meet ya while you were down in my neck of the woods.

Mike

Originally Posted by Mike52

Dave, that's one luxurious looking RV, it should be called the Highway Hilton. I wish I had known you were looking at Lazy Days and Bates, I live only a few miles from each, I passed them both for years going back and forth to work. I would have loved to meet ya while you were down in my neck of the woods.

Mike

Mike - while we planned this trip to FL for a couple of months, it kinda snuck up on us and it was like "holy cow - we have to be at the airport" and at 0500 - TOMORROW MORNING".

Bates seems like a pretty good outfit to do business with - Lazy Days, sorry, but I don't buy an RV at a super market where I'm just a number. They have to put up with my wanderings and comparisons - and the amount of time we spend.

It's always fun and a great time to meet forum folks - next time I'll have my act together.

Dave---Whats the status on your roadster?--Are you going to be driving it this summer?---Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Dave---Whats the status on your roadster?--Are you going to be driving it this summer?---Brian

Brian, I have a short punch list of some odds and ends but my upholsterer is holding me up. He took several 30-50 foot big buck boats to do over the winter and is (hopefully!!) finishing up the last this coming week - I'll be taking a trip to see him in a few days. I guess I can't be too PO'ed at him as I have strung him along.............. he only has about 2-3 full days of work left to finish my car.

Dave---Hope you're on the road soon. Kathy and I just got back last Sunday from a week in St. Lucia. I couldn't really afford to go, but with this rotten economy I figured better to go while I have very little work than when it picks up and I'm too busy to go.---And who wants to go to the islands in the summer time anyways. Damn, I'm glad I have a rich wife!!! I am really looking foreward to hotrod weather. I hope to do a couple of major road trips this summer with the rpu. Last summer sucked ---it was cool and wet a lot of the time, definitly not roadster weather. Pray for a hot dry summer---far better for roadsters and arthritic old fat men.----Brian

Dave...The Glendale Titanium is an excellent trailer.....a couple of friends have them.......

About the mileage, though, one of the guys sold his whole trailer and F350, due to the 7mpg it was getting........It was about that size.....He traded it in on a 35ft motorhome...Diesel pusher......I can't imagine it getting any better....a case of more money than brains, I think....LOL

Originally Posted by poncho62

Dave...The Glendale Titanium is an excellent trailer.....a couple of friends have them.......

About the mileage, though, one of the guys sold his whole trailer and F350, due to the 7mpg it was getting........It was about that size.....He traded it in on a 35ft motorhome...Diesel pusher......I can't imagine it getting any better....a case of more money than brains, I think....LOL

I have to say, every thing I've seen on that Titanium is top notch - and we've looked at a lot of different makes in the past couple of years and this was the best by far and at a great price. Seems everyone at the RV lot was afraid of what it is and were to dam' lazy to learn.

So now that guy went from the frying pan to the fire with a 35' motor home. He's still in 7-9mpg range, spent at least US $150K for the monster and probably a lot more, and is spending anywhere from US $.50 to $1.00 more per US gallon of diesel fuel. Then to top it off, he needs to drag a US $20K+/- car to run around with..................but with more money then brains..........Me, with a V10 gasser, will probably be happy with 8-9mpg.

Brian - the Hess Oil refinery on St Croix used to be a regular stop every 4-8 weeks for me - and the islands are really great in the summer - no @#$% tourists, you can really get to know the local folks and little traffic (especially since us North Americans have to drive on the right side of the road with a left hand drive car