Between my parents first retirement, and second retirement, they bought a motorhome. It was huge, cranky, unreliable, and I only ever traveled with them in it once. They met up with a dozen friends in a parking lot, the group leader played this song at full volume, and we set off. My one and only trip to Key West. And the fuel pump failed on the way around Miami, shutting down the generator and the air conditioning. A couple of years later my parents were driving across a bridge in Tennessee in the motorhome when a tire blew. My father described it as follows, "your mother told me in words I didn't think she knew, that she hated traveling in the motorhome and she was done." They stopped to have the tire replaced at an RV dealer, and my mother sold it to the dealer and they drove the tow car home.
I don't blame her.
ReplyDeleteThey are a large complicated truck in many ways
DeleteI didn't mind our campervan as we call them when we hired it a few years ago, but my partner hated it and cut short our trip by a day. To be fair, mostly the weather wasn't very good either.
ReplyDeleteI drove one for a month one time as a mobile office, that was enough
DeleteI’ve heard so many stories like that from former RVers. I would have been with your mother.
ReplyDeleteI can stay in a decade of Hiltons, for what the motorhome cost
DeleteMy parents had one for many years and never had too much trouble with it, but it was a beast to maneuver.
ReplyDeleteEvery time they got more than 50 miles from home, something broke
DeleteI've hear similar stories about living this way. I have one relative who is still on the road.
ReplyDeleteShe liked to travel, but didn't like the motorhome
DeleteBoy, when your Mom was done, SHE WAS DONE!
ReplyDeleteWhen she was not happy, no one was happy
DeleteMy grandparents had a Holiday Rambler trailer and loved traveling all over the US and Mexico. It was so much fun when they came to visit us and let the grandkids take turns sleeping in the trailer.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's parents had travel trailers for years - decades
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