We've been working on the bones of this trip for 10 years! It started as a goal to use some of our retirement savings to buy a Class A motor home (the big honkers that look like a bus). On road trips, we'd pass someone in a spacious, nice-looking motor home and we'd yell, "There we go!! There's US!!" I had a vision of RBK hunkered down at the wheel, confidently navigating a mountain pass switchback. We would be on our way to one of the national parks. I would be making a tuna sandwich for him in the kitchenette. Later, we'd be hanging out at the RV Park, watching shooting stars while sitting on our foldable chairs.
A big hole got busted into the June Cleaver vision, though, when gas hit $4.00 a gallon. Then I found out that a $300K motor home is over a grand to license in the state of Michigan. Then we bought the lake house and now we're the Ridgeline Pioneers.
It would've been pretty cool to sleep in our own bed on an extended trip and sometimes make a tuna sandwich in it. But I would have had to drive part of the time. This is not an attractive idea.
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