We went for a drive Saturday and we stopped by the local motor home dealer near Midway. We always liked small motor homes - having owned 4 of them. Retired trailing spouses love to drive campers in their light blue jump suits.
This one is special because it is on a Chrysler Daimler chassis. It is made by Road Trek in Canada. It has a turbo diesel Mercedes engine that gets 23 MPG. It has a full bathroom - a full kitchen - a king size bed at street level - and it still can park at a regular parking meter space.
Last year you may re-call - we sold our 1995 Chevy camper for about $14,000 on the eBay. It had about 60,000 miles on it. This new camper is about the same size and has the same equipment. It costs $77,000 new.
The Chevy we sold had a 350 engine that got 10 MPG - you can buy a lot of gasoline for the difference between $77,000 and $14,000! But that is not how people are thinking right now with the gaoline price frenzy. Some folks will spend $63,000 to save $1000 a year on gasoline.
No - we have no intention to buy it - unless we hit the lottery - and that is impossible because we do not buy tickets. The lottery is a tax on people that are poor at math - or they believe some super power is going to draw their name :-)
Maybe I should just pray for the motor home.
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