Yearly analysis after 6 years on the road

[HDrider]

Originally Posted by SoonToBeFT

Dave as always, every year and every post awesome to read. I recall when you said you were going to slow down on writing the blog a while back, and at that time my heart kinda sank somewhat (LOL). You do a truly commendable job sharing your figures for others to benefit and we've followed you since when Jack was on board (sad to hear he's showing some chronological challenges now :( ).

Anyway, here's another vote to hopefully encourage you to keep on keeping on - for sure can appreciate that blogging does at times seem like somewhat of a challenge to keep up, but hopefully it'll be wonderful for you in years to come to look back on, and in the meantime, know there's hundreds of us out here that look forward to it.

Enjoy AZ for the next two months, looking forward to hearing all about the 5er delivery!

From a somewhat very mild winter Alberta here.

Thanks for those kind words. Responses like that are a big part of why we didn't slow down on the blog all that much, words like that and like you said, knowing that the blog will be something to reflect back on at some time in the future when we can no longer live this life style.
Cheer's and here's to a continued "somewhat" mild winter up north.

[marjoa]

Originally Posted by HDrider

Yup, we decided to get a New Horizon 5th wheel, in fact we have someone that has put money down on our current motorhome and is planning to take possession at the end of March. And our New Horizon 5th wheel is in the frame shop stages and we hope to go get it in April along with a new Ram 5500 that is sitting at Classy Chassie in Indiana.

Ok, WOW. So you decided on the higher ticket one. My wife & I both read the debate you & Diane we're going through and we both were saying, "we need to keep our eye on these New Horizons that we may run across in different CG's and see how people are using them in real life. Are there good used Horizons on the market? I don't think we'll have the money to order exactly what we want with a new one when the time comes.

And boy, talking about perfect timing on both the new delivery and MH sale. That's awesome. How did you pull that off? Was it someone near to you in AZ and they're willing to wait or something?

[HDrider]

Originally Posted by marjoa

Ok, WOW. So you decided on the higher ticket one. My wife & I both read the debate you & Diane we're going through and we both were saying, "we need to keep our eye on these New Horizons that we may run across in different CG's and see how people are using them in real life. Are there good used Horizons on the market? I don't think we'll have the money to order exactly what we want with a new one when the time comes.

And boy, talking about perfect timing on both the new delivery and MH sale. That's awesome. How did you pull that off? Was it someone near to you in AZ and they're willing to wait or something?

There are used units around the country but nothing that just jumped out at us so new was the way to go for us.
And you are right, we got lucky timing wise, well it seems that way so far, we have not received the final check yet and out new rig isn't done so a lot can still go wrong so we are just going with the flow.
The people buying our rig are located just 1 hour away and didn't plan on leaving the area until May so us wanting to keep it until April worked with them, again, just luck.
Diane has been such a good person all her life and you know how they say good things come to those that are good. Well on the other hand if something goes wrong I guess it will be all on me LOL!!!

[marjoa]

Originally Posted by HDrider

on the other hand if something goes wrong I guess it will be all on me LOL!!!

We have a small wooden sign hanging on one of our walls that says, "we've been through a lot together, and most of it was your fault".

Hope everything works out for you two. Again thanks for sharing.

[poppyof5]

Great info. Thanks for sharing