07-18-2014, 06:43 AM
Greetings - Greetings and more Greetings,
Every once in awhile you’ll read something and you think “wow that was really interesting”. Then today I read something and I think “wow that was interesting, thought provoking and just right”!
Michael and Richard, thank you for your very thoughtful responses. My questions regarding Prevost verses Newell had less to do with Prevost and more to do with reputation. Prevost is the only motorhome I new and understood it to have a great reputation. So my thought was If a coach is said in the same breath as Prevost it’s got to be good!
Richard said: “Harry, do you mind telling us a little about you?” I will answer in the order the questions were asked.
What is your background? I am passive aggressive, chronic and manifested by sullenness! But so much for my wife, children, friends, neighbors and gaggle of clinical psychologists! What do they know right?
I don’t know how much you want to know but a quick thumbnail is have an MBA in marketing, an Army officer, owned a food broker firm for almost 30 years and the last 15 years as a database developer! Intermixed within that somewhere I’ve been a radio announcer, humorist speaker, author and general pain in the backside!
Have you owned RVs before? No
How mechanically or electrically inclined are you? At the age of 14 I worked in a full service City Service station in my hometown. By 16 could take a car apart and put it back together with few parts left over. However, that has been a few years ago but some things you don’t forget. There are few things i’ve put my mind to that i’ve been unable to do!
What are you going to use the coach for? May through September in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. We lived in Cody, Wyoming before our recent move to North Carolina. We have kids in West Virginia and Florida and wanted to pick a place in between so we can spend more time with them and the grandkids. We’re not 100% sure what we will do with our home in NC but we plan to winter in Florida and are unsure if we will live in the coach full time or get a stick house in Florida for the winter months. That’s one of the big reasons I want a 45 footer, I want the pleasure of room and willing to sacrifice not being able to fit into some spaces and places to have it.
What do I want in a motorhome? 45’ Newell DP, Bath & a half, Washer & Dryer, King Bed, Cummins diesel (I know I will not get that) and from 1999 to 2006.
Chester Stone said in a different thread here on the Guru: Foodsman, you stated that not having a bath and a half was a deal breaker. My 2001 does not have two commodes, but my coach only travels with one or two persons (not a family), and the added closet space and king size bed in lieu of the extra commode closet is preferred.
There could be wisdom in that, something Chester is not known for!
If I’ve missed anything please let me know.
Thank you all so very much, you’ve been a true blessing!!!
Harry
Every once in awhile you’ll read something and you think “wow that was really interesting”. Then today I read something and I think “wow that was interesting, thought provoking and just right”!
Michael and Richard, thank you for your very thoughtful responses. My questions regarding Prevost verses Newell had less to do with Prevost and more to do with reputation. Prevost is the only motorhome I new and understood it to have a great reputation. So my thought was If a coach is said in the same breath as Prevost it’s got to be good!
Richard said: “Harry, do you mind telling us a little about you?” I will answer in the order the questions were asked.
What is your background? I am passive aggressive, chronic and manifested by sullenness! But so much for my wife, children, friends, neighbors and gaggle of clinical psychologists! What do they know right?
I don’t know how much you want to know but a quick thumbnail is have an MBA in marketing, an Army officer, owned a food broker firm for almost 30 years and the last 15 years as a database developer! Intermixed within that somewhere I’ve been a radio announcer, humorist speaker, author and general pain in the backside!
Have you owned RVs before? No
How mechanically or electrically inclined are you? At the age of 14 I worked in a full service City Service station in my hometown. By 16 could take a car apart and put it back together with few parts left over.
However, that has been a few years ago but some things you don’t forget. There are few things i’ve put my mind to that i’ve been unable to do!What are you going to use the coach for? May through September in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. We lived in Cody, Wyoming before our recent move to North Carolina. We have kids in West Virginia and Florida and wanted to pick a place in between so we can spend more time with them and the grandkids. We’re not 100% sure what we will do with our home in NC but we plan to winter in Florida and are unsure if we will live in the coach full time or get a stick house in Florida for the winter months. That’s one of the big reasons I want a 45 footer, I want the pleasure of room and willing to sacrifice not being able to fit into some spaces and places to have it.
What do I want in a motorhome? 45’ Newell DP, Bath & a half, Washer & Dryer, King Bed, Cummins diesel (I know I will not get that) and from 1999 to 2006.
Chester Stone said in a different thread here on the Guru: Foodsman, you stated that not having a bath and a half was a deal breaker. My 2001 does not have two commodes, but my coach only travels with one or two persons (not a family), and the added closet space and king size bed in lieu of the extra commode closet is preferred.
There could be wisdom in that, something Chester is not known for!
If I’ve missed anything please let me know.
Thank you all so very much, you’ve been a true blessing!!!
Harry