Well I finally positioned myself to pull the trigger. My new-to-me Winnebago 26HE.
https://www.rv.com/archive/winnebago...26he-reviewed/
It has been a long journey getting my life and credit in order, studying and dreaming and analyzing and dreaming. I ended up nowhere close to where I thought I would end up. I can only hope I ended up in a better place than I started dreaming about.
I am reaching retirement age and I intend to live in my rig when I finally leave the work life in a couple of years. I started by looking at the Cruise America 27' unit. It is nice , and has it's advantages and disadvantages. Then I looked at Bigfoot, Born Free and Lazy Daze, all class C rigs. I probably would have ended up there, but my credit union wouldn't finance the older rigs.
Then this one fell in my lap. It had been lived in buy the PO couple for the last year, as they traveled around the west. It popped up on FB marketplace and was located just 60 miles away, which made doing an in-person walk through possible. I actually paid a lot of money to get the professional inspection done and my CU did the financing.
So here I am, the happy owner of a tiny (?) little 26 foot class A Winnebago. I've only owned it for a week, and I am still poking around figuring out how it all works. The inspection gave me an 80 page document with the unvarnished truth about what needs to be done. It is 10 years old and it does need some work done to it but it is water tight, and has 41,000 miles on it. And it has upgrades to the suspension! Which to me feels like the sweet spot, not left sitting but not excessive miles on it either. And so the refurb begins.
It feels like a solid unit to take me into my retirement. Wish me luck on getting it all fixed up.
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