Florida, Tampa - Sunday, January 19, 2014 - RV Super Show

This is the last day of the RV Super Show.

 

The weather is beautiful here.

We looked through all of the class A coaches that would compare in size to what we have now – a 43 footer.  We didn’t really see anything that we would have traded for.  A couple of them that were over $600,000 were really pretty to look at, but they lacked some of the storage we have now and I’m not sure if I could have really kicked back and felt comfortable in them.  At $600,000 it was a non-issue anywayJ.  What we have is home.

As we were walking through the displays this afternoon we ran across Howard and Linda Payne of RV-Dreams.com.  It was their website that got us interested in going fulltime back in 2009.  We went to one of their rallies in Kerrville, TX right after we moved into our coach in 2011 and haven’t looked back since.  We’ll be going to another of their rallies this Spring in Tennessee.

The refrigerator is cooling, but not quite like it was before.  We put some pork chops in the freezer and they froze, but the ice cream bars didn’t.  The fridge part seems to be doing ok.  We’ll pick up some more groceries tomorrow, we decided to go easy on purchases until we were sure it was going to work like we wanted.

Tomorrow we’ll be moving into the Tampa East Campground for a couple of weeks.  We weren’t able to get into Tampa South like we wanted – too many snowbirds there already.  We’ll be making a stop on the way to visit Wade RV which is located on the grounds of the LazyDays complex.  We want them to look at a spot we need to have repaired on our passenger chair which was dinged by a runaway screwdriver.  Greg was doing something at the dash to get the Sirius radio working when he dropped a screwdriver and it bounced up and hit the chair.  We also want to see what they can do to revamp some of the entryway.

We came across some of the work that the folks at Wade RV do in some of the top of the line coaches, then we found their booth.  We've found that talking with the exhibitors provides us with some valuable information.  We had several good discussions as we made our rounds.