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Re: First Class A: Is GV Pusher a wise choice?

Reply #25 –
After we bought the FT, we converted the last "guest room" to the "sewing/quilting" room. Folk can sleep in there, but they will be on the floor. Their other choice is in the FT 20' from the back door. The FT usually stays about 100' from the house. We move it closer for guests or to load/unload for trips.

Daughter visited and stayed in the coach. She thought it was great. Weather was pleasant and she could leave the windows open if she chose to. She could sleep, read, etc., in private or join us in the house.

Son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren visited. Wife and I stayed in the coach with the grandchildren. Gave the master bedroom to son and daughter-in-law. Everybody was happy.

I took the coach to park near a client site last week in order to eliminate a 140 mile/day commute.

When we travel, the 65# dog goes with us. We sleep in our own bed with our own sheets. We eat healthy, fresh food a couple times a day. We bake two fresh cookies to indulge ourselves in the evening.

It's expensive, but it may be worth it.

  Best wishes for a successful choice.
J D Stevens
1997 U295 CAI 36' Build #5085
2002 Subaru Outback
Motorcade 16869
Bellville, TX

Re: First Class A: Is GV Pusher a wise choice?

Reply #26 –
Quote from: John S –
You have ad. Few say 6 to 8 weeks is not enough time.  I will differ. I still work and when I started out I thought the same thing. Funny, I started taking the coach to work on Fridays and leaving from there every other weekend.  I would use it to go visit the kids in NC.  I would take it to NY parents an hour or so away and stay overnight instead of driving hoe at midnight. 

You will find it is a lifestyle. 

I would look at the later end of your range. All the major alliances will still be reaching the end of their useful life and the hoses FT used are 20 yr lives. So you are going to have some work to do.  Just take them one at a time and you will find soccer games now have a home base and those multi day ones are even fun.  I use mine to go and get to the location I want to take pictures in. I at sit there for a couple hours waiting for the right light. Find one that fits, I would look for a wide body though. 

John hits it on the head. It does become a lifestyle. Some of the appliances will need replacing, some sooner, some later. Fridge is usually the first to go so figure $1K there plus a possible air or two. With kids and a dog, the extra width is noticeable when others are trying to go the opposite direction at the same time. 36' vs 40' is also a choice. Lots to be said for either size.
Pierce and Gaylie Stewart
'93 U300/36 WTBI
Detroit 6V-92TA Jake
1140 watts on the roof
SBFD (ret)

Re: First Class A: Is GV Pusher a wise choice?

Reply #27 –
Yes to the change in your life style.

We too have used the coach for work, last month I had two out of town roofs to install.  The round trip each day would have been 3 hours.  Instead, we took the coach, and enjoyed not driving back and forth for the week.

It is also just too hot here in Ft. Worth to enjoy camping out, even at the lake, when the house is 78, and the pool is warm, clean and shaded. 

But yesterday we did an early run to our covered coach storage space.  We got some chores done.  I installed a muddapper cover on the waterheater after digging out the old mud, and using the vacuum hose stuck out the galley window.  Then covered the furnace inlet covers, that did not have any telltale balls of dropped mud yet. 

And then for fun, we went for a drive.  Found propane to top the tank.  Stopped by Bill Chaplin's coach storage for a visit.  We went and got the coach weighed, and picked up lunch to go.  With the generator on, the coach was nice and cool.  A nice 5 hours coach day, nice visit with friends, some drive time, hopefully good for the systems and really great for us.

We too have used the coach for the guest house, and we have loved visiting friends, just parking in their driveways when traveling.  Some things just really can't be measured with just dollars spent.

And when you have a coach, you can find lots of reasons to use it, and places that just need to be visited.

We have had motorcycles for the last 13 years, and they "caused" us to look for places to go, and trips to be planned.  I really doubt we might have done the many miles and states without buying those bikes.  Now the coach will be the excuse we need to travel more.
Dave Cobb
Buckhorn Lake Resort The Club, #6202, Kerrville TX
check the map.  I do rent it out when I am traveling!
2001, U320, 36' #5887, in Kerrville, FT Club #17006, (7/23 to present)
2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, Summit, white
EX: 98 U295, 36' #5219, (mid door), (4/13-10/23)
EX: 93 U225, 36' (4/11 to 4/13)