Picking a travel home

We have been "motorhomers" for 31 years straight going from tent camping to a small class A in 1974. We had finally had it with coming home with wet tents and equipment and had an opportunity to acquire a repossessed unit from a bank that was brand new. Over the years we have owned and traveled in seven different motorhomes and like the cartoon about owning a boat, they kept getting bigger and longer. We have always made a point to go to every camper show in Detroit for the last 15 years....it's always fun to see the new units and the changes that have been made. We decided after seeing all kinds of units that choosing a fifth wheel really allows for full use of all the space in any given unit and would provide an excellent choice for anyone that was going to one spot and staying for a longer period of time. The actual traveling would probably be just a direct route to that place and then settling in with all the amenities of an "portable apartment". Our plan however is not to settle in one area for too long (except to visit grandchildren in faraway places) but to see this United States of ours. Having had motorhomes of one sort or another also probably had some influence, but we do think that a fifth wheel may be in our future. At any rate, after much thought, we decided that the traveling view from the pilot and copilots seat (not to mention the plumbing facilities in the back) afforded by a motorhome while moving down the road, far outweighed for us, the idea of traveling in a fifthwheel (at least until we find that special spot or spots, that we want to spend extended time).
Two years ago we invested in a new diesel motorhome (Holiday Rambler Endeavor) with two slideouts and a new "toad" (a PT Cruiser). These choices for units were the culmination of much thought and looking at all kinds of brochures and units that we thought would be appropriate for extended travel with a degree of comfort that would allow us to move around and not step on one another. It also allowed us to store in the holds below bicycles, inflatable boats, outboard motors, lawn chairs, grills, tools, fishing equipment and a variety of things we have collected and used over the years while weekending and taking shorter trips. All of this together in one package within weight limits and we are almost ready to go.

Starting this blog

In trying to set up this blog I have found how terribly inadequate my computer knowlege is but the hope is that soon there will be a reasonable flow of what we will be doing as we travel. We actually won't start our trip until the middle of January but we are counting down and to start I will add posts about what we have done to prepare.