Hershey RV Show Round 2 (2015) - Part 2

After looking at the Lance offerings and deciding (pretty quickly) they weren't for us, even though we already own one, we moved on to Thor. Some friends of ours have a Class A already & are thinking about upgrading to a Thor Tuscany, so we went to scope it out for them. The model they're interested in is beautiful! Can't wait to see what they decide.

Next on our personal list was Tiffin to check out the Allegro. Last year, we weren't even considering the Allegro, but after walking through it, it went on our short list. We stopped in to check out a few of the coaches. We thought we had it narrowed down to the 32SA, but we looked at the 36LA and we really liked the extra room it gave us. We don't love the interior of the Allegro. It's still a little too "old" for us.

We learned that the Ford F-53 Chassis was going from 5 speed to 6 speed for 2016, so that was a good piece of knowledge to have as we went through the rest of the day.

After seeing the Tiffins, it was about 11am or so. At 11:30, there was a seminar on how to make your motorhome more "fun" to drive. In reality, it was Blue Ox telling us about a couple of products that really make the coaches a bit safer to drive. It was still pretty informational & gave us time to sit and think about a couple of things. It also gave us time to get hungry!

I had pulled pork (no bun) with chips. Jon had 2 hot dogs. During lunch, we had an interesting conversation. We've narrowed it down to the Winnebago Brave and the Tiffin Allegro. I think we narrowed it down last year. After seeing both at the show again, we were a little torn. We like some of the things about the Tiffin, but did we LOVE it?

Jon asked my opinion and I said "I feel like if we bought the Allegro, we'd always wonder if we would've been happy in the Brave, but if we bought the Brave, we'd never look back at the Allegro." Jon answered simply with "I agree". With that, we left lunch.

We stopped by the Progressive tent/trailer to seek out Stephanie from the RV Family Travel Atlas blog. We chatted with her for a while, she asked if we'd stop by later to do an interview & we said we would.

With that, we headed back to the Brave. We found Steve & started talking. We worked out a deal that we are happy with and signed the papers to order our Winnebago Brave 31C in Bell Bottom Blue, with a Moody Blue interior and Doheny Driftwood cabinets. They haven't made any coaches with the driftwood cabinets, so we'll have the only one like it for a while. We're looking forward to finding out how long it'll be before we can take delivery!

Don't I look right at home?

Once we finished up with Steve, we headed back to Progressive to do our interview with Stephanie. It was so great meeting her & chatting. Hopefully the interview turned out well & usable!

After chatting with Stephanie, we headed out of the show, found dinner, and then headed home. Can't wait to see what our pets think of the new digs & all of the room they'll have to run around!

Hershey RV Show Round 2 (2015 show) - Part 1

Originally, we were going to go to the Hershey RV show from Wednesday - Sunday. We decided to sell our house earlier this year, we've had several unexpected trips (and expected ones), and I ultimately took Hershey off the table. It was just too much for the year.

Jon convinced me that we should head to Hershey for one day instead of the whole week. We had some questions about things we saw last year, things we thought we liked, and some ideas about what we might want to upgrade to in the future.

We ended up going to Hershey on Wednesday night & stayed at the Spring Hill Marriott again this year to avoid having to make the drive Thursday morning. We arrived at the show at 8:30am, just in time to stand in line to get in. (Jon REALLY wanted to be there early this year... again.)

Once the gates opened at 9am, we headed straight over to Cruiser RV. Last year, we decided we really liked the Enterra. Cruiser RV has since been acquired by Heartland RV and the product line has changed a bit. Unfortunately, in talking with the factory representative, the Enterra has been replaced by the Radiance. It just wasn't as high end as the Enterra. We didn't love it, so we moved on pretty quickly.

I did really like the island!

After the Cruiser RV stop, we made a beeline to our love from last year, the Winnebago Brave. Our intention was to look at it (again), see what we thought about this year's model, and then to look at a couple of other gaser Class A's. This was supposed to include a couple of other Winnebagos.

We stopped at the Brave first. Yup, still just love it. We feel so at home in it. Still. Siiiigggghhhhh.

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 27B

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

Winnebago Brave 31C

We walked through a couple of other Winnebagos, but we felt just "eh" about them, so we stopped looking at them. We returned to the Brave & saw Steve, the sales guy from last year who we talked with so many times (5?!). He remembered us and we started chatting with him. I guess we left an impression! I mean, who looks at a coach 5 times and walks away from it?!

We had a couple of other things we wanted to look at, so we said farewell and went on our way.

Our next stop was Lance. We love keeping up with what they're doing. As we were walking over to Lance from Winnebago, a couple was behind us and mentioned something about going over to the Lance section. I (Heather) interjected myself in their conversation talking with them about the Lance product & Parkview RV (the dealer at the show). They were happy to hear what we had to say about both, which is good. We saw later on the Parkview RV Facebook page that they were joining the Lance family. Congrats to them!

We were really hoping to see the toy hauler, but Parkview sold it the week before the show, so it wasn't there. Ah well. We love our 2013 Lance 1885, but it's definitely getting a bit tight! We like the floor plans of the larger ones, but we've got some concerns about the tires on the trailer and where the axles are. That's kind of a deal breaker for us and it hasn't changed in the past couple of years, so we're not inclined to spend the money to upgrade to either of the larger floor plans.

Up next: Hershey RV Show Round 2 - Part 2

Luray Weekend 9: June 19-21: Hiking in SNP

We recently skipped 2 weekends to move. We sold & closed on our house on June 18. YAY! One step closer to our long term goals!

This weekend, our friends were camping at the Luray KOA with us. It was so wonderful to have them with us. We had great campfires (yay!) and even went hiking with them. We went to Shenandoah National Park and did the Stoney Man Mountain trail.

After the hike, we had lunch in SNP and then came down to Luray & had Flootzies (I have no idea if that's spelled correctly!). So good, while so horrible for us.

The rest of the weekend was spent chillin around the campground just enjoying the company. Can't wait until the next weekend with them!