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Since we do a fair amount of camping with a travel trailer, my wife was "convinced" that we needed something a bit bigger and especially as well as get a newer RV then the 28' travel trailer we had been using. While we were in Florida a month ago we spent part of a day looking at fifth wheel campers in the 28-31 foot range. We saw many but none made her eyes roll back and go into palpitations. We got home and stated looking around here and found this one. A lot bigger, a lot fancier but not more expensive. The dealer thought it was an orphan. His loss, my gain. It's a 34' Glendale Titanium, made in Canada to more strict CSA regulations - and like I said, the dealer thought it was an orphan make. It was less $$ then either a 2004 or a 2007 Keystone Cougar. At least I have a truck heavy enough to haul it - my V10 F350. I do need a hitch adapter for the goose neck hitch already installed in the bed and that's a bit pricier then I anticipated, but - wothehel - someone needs to start the economy moving

The perspective is a bit off in this picture as I used a very wide angle lens.

Wow! Dave, that is really nice-I am envious! Have you taken it out yet? Looks like you're really roughing it (not! )-

Wow Dave. when you get her rolling stop by here in Virginia so I can take a look at her. Your wife has great taste.

Originally Posted by 35WINDOW

Wow! Dave, that is really nice-I am envious! Have you taken it out yet? Looks like you're really roughing it (not! )-

Craig - we don't pick it up until the 27th. Let the dealer store it while we still have snow then de-winterize it for me, I'm getting anxious to use it now that we made the $$+$ donation to help 'stimulate' the ecnomy

Barb - of course she has good taste she chose me!!!
Might just get to VA since we do have a daughter in Midlothian, VA

Hell, if you were in fla, you should have let us know, we could have had a CHR north meets south get together. That`s a real nice trailer you found! With the economy, right now is the best deals out there. have lots of fun with it.

Well Dave I guess that wasn't you I saw hanging around the Marathon Coach lot down here in San Antonio Florida.

I told my wife, that guy looks like Dave from NY, I wonder if he's picking one up. Guess I was wrong.

The one you are getting looks really great. I know you will get a tremendous amount of enjoyment out of it, plus keep those factory guys employed.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Well Dave I guess that wasn't you I saw hanging around the Marathon Coach lot down here in San Antonio Florida.

I told my wife, that guy looks like Dave from NY, I wonder if he's picking one up. Guess I was wrong.

The one you are getting looks really great. I know you will get a tremendous amount of enjoyment out of it, plus keep those factory guys employed.

Not that time Bob - we went to Lazy Days and Bates and a couple of others on I-4 but ended up locally.

As much as I can see, there is absolutely nothing amiss with this RV. The original owners took the CRT TV and the usual mediocre recliner out - but this way, a good flat screen TV and at least a comfortable Lazy Boy recliner will be the replacements.

And as always, gotta keep the workers working to support my SS funds in my retirement -

Wow Dave, that's gorgeous! I hope to see it this fall in person at the nats in Burlington.

Congrats and Good Luck with it!

Will you adopt me............joe

Dave...Very nice! Never have seen a nose on a fifth-wheel quite like that. If your flat screen TV is an LCD, a word of caution. I've heard that they will suffer damage from pretty cold temps in the winter months. Take a look at this link.

http://rv-roadtrips.thefuntimesguide...een_lcd_tv.php

They build them in Strathroy Ontario Canada, it's the next town over from me, been by the factory many times. They produce some pretty decent trailers of all sizes. I drool when I go by looking at them....didn't get any on that one did I? Sniper

Thanks folks - we are really looking forward to this 'little' toy.

Mike - the way you will see it while at Burlington will be if you take the ferry across Lake Champlain as we will be a seasonal at a campground just South of the NY side ferry landing. We signed up for that when gas prices were $4.50/gallon just so we could get out more - another error in judgment. But with that said, we'll have almost 2 months before they open for the season..........

Joe - already have many kids and GC .... and they will have to sleep in tents as it is only a 4 sleeper

Roofcam - that front end is a patent - and very areodynamic. Some folks reported that their gas mileage was almost as good with as without that RV attached. At 10,000+/- pounds hanging off the rear of my F350 - I really doubt that is a true statement - but we'll see. Any DVD will be brought into the house at winter time.

Sniper - I did see some dried drool on the left fender and wondered....... I hope since it was built to PITA CSA standards that it is a better RV then most US (I did a power plant for DuPont about 15 years and learned all about them)

Heres a photo of the innards - where the 2 chairs are in the back is where a recliner or 2 will go:

dave , you know your gonna be piled up in there with gk's all over you and loving every minute of it . i hope to build a motor home out of an old ford truck i have.

Originally Posted by shine

dave , you know your gonna be piled up in there with gk's all over you and loving every minute of it . i hope to build a motor home out of an old ford truck i have.

You betcha - if all 10 of the GC plus our 4 kids and their spouses/significant other in one case (howinheck did I ever get THAT many!!) show up at the same time, we might just have to sleep, use the bathroom and eat in shifts. There was a Monaco motor home in for service parked next to mine when we did the walk through that probably was a 12 sleeper - at 44 feet and $265K.

I've taken those ferry's a few times actually! On a vacation back in the 80's...

I enjoyed it but, the wife was less than pleased whenever the cars moved around, one of the ferry boats only held 6 or 8 cars! Good Memories! Look forward to doing it in the coupe!