Over Memorial Day weekend, my DW and I had reservations at the Kentucky Horse Park. We arrived on Friday, got everything setup and did what you do when you're glamping.
Anyway, a friend we were camping with came over and said "there's another Sportscoach identical to yours over on the other side of the campground". Later that evening, while riding around on the golf cart I spotted it. It's strange, because you just don't see many of these on the road for whatever reason, and I've never found another one in a campground, especially one that's an identical match.
Getting back to the story, when my DW and I first started looking for motorhomes, we had found an 07 Sportscoach on Ebay and ended up bidding on the unit. We were the high bidder at around $66,000. LONG story short, I sent the deposit and made arrangements for the buyer to deliver the motorhome for the cost of fuel from Arizona to my home in Kentucky. Things were going well. We had secured financing and were awaiting it's arrival. Each day I received an update from the seller as to his location. Suddenly, the day before we were expecting delivery, I received $1000 back to my Paypal account. It was my deposit. The seller called off the sale because he "said" he was going through a divorce and his wife found out he had sold the RV and lawyered up. We were NOT happy and it cost us some out-of-pocket due to the fact that we had already booked the loan. The seller did eventually refund that money, so no loss.
We started looking at motorhomes again, and both agreed that we loved the layout of the Sportscoach so well, we'd just find another. And find another we did, in upstate New York. The rest is history.
Back to this weekend. I was getting ready to walk the beagles Sunday morning when I stepped out of the motorhome and met a guy looking at my motorhome. We struck up a conversation and he said he was the guy with the other Sportscoach. Cool.
We started talking about things we liked about them and how long we'd had them. This was his maiden voyage and he had come out of St. Louis. He wanted to know if we'd had any problems with ours so I told him of the things that had gone wrong in the last year since we owned it. Then, he started talking about his. He said "mine has this funny issue where the speedo resets to 56 miles everytime you shut the key off". I though that was weird, because the one I tried to buy off Ebay was the same way. I asked him where the motorhome came from and he said "Miami". Strange, the seller of the one I tried to buy was from Miami. I asked him was your seller named Rick? Bingo, it's the same motorhome!
Turns out the guy was legit, because now the divorce is final and he even met the girlfriend
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It's a small world.
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