Pennsylvania, Hershey - Friday, September 16, 2016 - Hershey RV Show

The last couple of days we have spent looking at all of the new class A RV models.  For those of you who don’t own an RV, those are the ones that look like a big bus, sometimes referred to as a “diesel pusher”.  We still aren’t ready to put out that much money but its fun to look.  Obviously, some of my pictures could have used a little work – not too sharp.

The Tiffen Allegro Bus OOP is one of our favorites.  This particular one has darker wood than we like but the layout was perfect.

The Tiffen Allegro Bus 40 SP has the interior color that we like better.  This coach is 4 foot shorter than the one we currently have, that doesn’t sound like a lot, but it makes a big difference. 

I also like the Winnebago Tour QD.  I favor the gray interior and the squared up trim, it reminds me of the Craftsman style of home building.  Some of the top of the line motor coaches go way overboard on the glitz and glamour – too many mirrors, lights and fancy carved woodwork.  Those just look like too much work to me.

I always get a chuckle about all of the glass vases and fancy dishes they have setting out to indicate that this is how you would live in these coaches.  We live in a very nice coach and we do have some fancy plates, but they don’t come out on a regular basis – we go through a lot of paper plates! I listen to the salesmen talk about how you have room for absolutely everything in the large kitchen cabinets – probably not going to happen.  I also find it hard to believe that for a while the top of the line coaches did away with the kitchen pantry.  The pantries are now coming back but some we looked at today still don’t have them, they haven’t figured out that isn’t a good idea especially for people who live in them fulltime.

I heard one salesman tell a couple today that you put the dining room chairs on the bed when you are moving down the road.  Seriously, those things don’t move around much if at all while we are moving.

We didn’t leave the show empty handed.  We bought a new 20’ extending flag pole and flags.  The one we had quit working properly a couple of years ago and Greg finally quit trying to struggle with it.  The new one has better coupling mechanisms and will fit in our hitch rather than in a stand under the tire like our previous one.  Thank goodness the young man who was selling these poles was willing to go out of his way and bring it by the campground last night after he got done working the show.  We weren’t going to be anywhere in the next month where it could be delivered and we sure couldn’t carry a flagpole that only collapses down to about 8’ on the motorcycle.  We have carried some pretty strange things but that would have just been pushing the limit.

Greg also bought some kind of connector that is supposed to allow us to use our current satellite dish with the new Hopper system from Dish.  The discussion on how to proceed with the installation of this thing was totally foreign to me and sounded like it will take all winter to figure out how this is going to work, so more on that later.

We will be headed out in the morning to Pohick Bay Regional Park just outside of Washington, DC to spend some time with daughter Robyn and her family.