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Yea this is a strange one.

Let me start with some history, we have a tent that we hardly use, we did have a 25 ft caravan which we used but not much, we have never had a motor home but I have always wanted one since I was a kid. NOTE : I wanted one not WE wanted one LOL

We haven’t used the tent much because we bought it a few years ago after selling the caravan but  the following couple of years things where good for us and we ended up going abroad and staying in apartments etc. If all else fails we have the tent for what are good fun holidays.

We sold the caravan because we hardly used it, because of it’s size and the narrow road we could not manouvre  it on/off the drive way so it had to go on storage, this meant when ever we went away, we had to drive over with everything needed and load it up, come back pick kids up from sch0ol etc and then go back and get the caravan.  This was OK but if we an ‘impulse’ weekend away in it then it became a lot of effort.

OK so why we  looking at a motor home now. We had been looking for something and Tracey suggested the shop at one of the local Caraven dealers, yea she was right they had the exact thing we was looking for, BUT they also had an 1985 motor home parked outside. I just had to have  a look.

It was very dated, but I thought ideal for us to drive to spain in etc. When I asked about the price they claimed it has just came in so had not been priced yet but expect it to be about £6500 GBP.  Ouch, more than I expected for a  24 year old vehicle so we left.

I then decided to try a speciallist motor home dealer local to us. Tracey is not keen at all but we take a browse anyway and then we left. I did mention another couple of places but we didn’t have the time so left it.

That evenning I checked my licence because I knew my disability meant I had restrictions on what I can drive, yea there sure is,I am limited to 3500kg weight. Tracey could drive something twice that but she won’t so there is no point even thinking about that first motor home (Recreational Vehicle) we had seen.

The next morning, kids get taken to school and then Tracey says to me, ‘what are we doing today?’, ‘what do you mean?’  I replied, ‘You wanted to go to Lowdham didn’t you?’, so we did.

We told the salesman what we are looking for and the restrictions we had, he said that is a big restriction for the number of beds we need but he has 3 that meet that criteria, two we looked at, one we liked, the third is at a show for the weekend, it is a couple of models above the one we liked so we have  arranged to view it on Friday after leaving a ‘lock it up’ deposit so no one can buy it at the show.

The motor home is only 3 years old, has low mileage and  costs an awfull lot more than I had ever thought I would pay, I didn’t expect to get credit for it because of the current climate etc but I did.

So come Friday we could well be the proud owners of a motor home, I am worried about the cost but I am also excited about the thought of being able to ‘tour’ the country and europe etc which has been my dream for years.