To RV or Not

So as we have been traveling for the past year as a family, we have stayed in hotels. To us hotels are now called hometels. Some times the rooms have been wonderful. With enough room, comfortable beds and all the things we need. Other times they have been way to small, only one bathroom, and very uncomfortable beds. Over this past year Colt and I have talked a few times about maybe getting an RV. We have scoured the internet looking at every make and model that had what we put on our "must have list". We quickly learned that the only ones that had everything that we wanted were far to expensive (like rock star expensive)! So we started to cut down the "must" list, and it now became a we could "make it work" list. Then it was back to the inter webs. To our surprise there was now a whole new world of possible rvs. Now that we found a wide range of options it was time for the real questions.

Question like....What is our real price range? What kind of places would we park it? How much does it cost to drive? How much would insurance be? Who would drive(not me)? Could we all really fit? Would we get sick of the small space and kill each other? Do we even know how to operate a home on wheels? How would the kids like it? What do we do with it after we are done traveling? All these questions and more made us feel overwhelmed. So the rv discussion got put on hold.

We continued to travel and enjoy our adventures in each new city. As we were packing up all the suit cases for the umpteenth time, the thought of "wouldn't it be nice to just unhook and drive, with out having to pack?" came to mind. The rv discussion was back on the table. This time we looked for help with answering all our questions. We took to FB and joined a few rv groups and asked a ton of questions. Most of them were answered and few we had to figure out for ourselves. 

Now we were ready to look at them in person. A picture is worth and thousand word but seeing in person is worth so much more. After we visited our first dealer location in San Diego, our minds were once again spinning. We even secretly wished we didn't have so many kids so we could have fit in a truck and pulled a 5th wheel (shh don't tell them that). 5th wheels were now on the brain and trying to figure out if there was any possibility for us to manage it. Turns out there are such things as 6 door/8 passenger trucks, they are just way out of our budget. Then it was on to check out class A,C and even travel trailers. There were some in each class that caught our eye, but none that we were ready to sign the dotted line for. 

Along our journey we have gone to a few dealers in a few states and saw none that seemed to match our needs, budget, and over all approval. While in Houston we finally found one that we really liked and took it for a test drive. When I say test drive I mean Colt drove and I sat in the back having an anxiety attack. I was getting motion sickness, claustrophobia, and an over all uneasy feeling. The sales person was very nice and understood why we didn't want sign the dotted line just yet. We went home and did what we usually do before a big purchase we prayed and we talked it over. It just didn't feel right and we are not sure why but just decided to trust our impressions. 

So for now the rv thing is not off the table but just put on the back burner to bring up again someday in the near future or the day that one of my random web searches pops up a match.