Bumala
11-03-2015, 08:56 PM
Hi All,
Last weekend my wife, Marian and I (Bob) drove over to Best RV in Turlock, CA and bought a 2016 Laredo 23RB. We're going to pick it up Saturday.
Since 1996 we've had a Catalina 250 trailerable sailboat, 25 foot long, and we've taken it to a great many of the lakes, the Bay, and Ocean, here in California. So I'm no stranger to towing something big and heavy. We've spent many an enjoyable weekend on the Miracle Max, but then my first mate developed Parkinson's disease. One of the symptoms of Parkinson's is a lack of balance, which is not good on a boat. So we've decided to move on to a land yacht.
We live in the mountains west of the SF Bay area, so that limited the rig to something I could get up the road. We decided to go with a 25 footer. In looking at the ones available, and practically every manufacturer makes a 25 footer with a slide out, and most have the outdoor kitchen, we really liked the large dinette of the Laredo, and the large shower.
For a tow vehicle, we have a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the 3L Diesel. We selected that because we wanted to tow about 7000, be reasonably close to the ground, and get good fuel economy, while being able to accommodate 5 comfortably.
I plan on retiring in May, and we are going to take a trip up the Alcan to Alaska. I was raised there, and my Mom and Sister still live there. We will take about a month to drive up, a month visiting, and a month driving back down.
So here's to a new adventure!
Bob.
Last weekend my wife, Marian and I (Bob) drove over to Best RV in Turlock, CA and bought a 2016 Laredo 23RB. We're going to pick it up Saturday.
Since 1996 we've had a Catalina 250 trailerable sailboat, 25 foot long, and we've taken it to a great many of the lakes, the Bay, and Ocean, here in California. So I'm no stranger to towing something big and heavy. We've spent many an enjoyable weekend on the Miracle Max, but then my first mate developed Parkinson's disease. One of the symptoms of Parkinson's is a lack of balance, which is not good on a boat. So we've decided to move on to a land yacht.
We live in the mountains west of the SF Bay area, so that limited the rig to something I could get up the road. We decided to go with a 25 footer. In looking at the ones available, and practically every manufacturer makes a 25 footer with a slide out, and most have the outdoor kitchen, we really liked the large dinette of the Laredo, and the large shower.
For a tow vehicle, we have a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the 3L Diesel. We selected that because we wanted to tow about 7000, be reasonably close to the ground, and get good fuel economy, while being able to accommodate 5 comfortably.
I plan on retiring in May, and we are going to take a trip up the Alcan to Alaska. I was raised there, and my Mom and Sister still live there. We will take about a month to drive up, a month visiting, and a month driving back down.
So here's to a new adventure!
Bob.