denverpilot
05-22-2017, 10:09 PM
We're selling our 2013 Keystone Laredo 312RE.
(Well technically I think it'll end up on consignment at a local mega-dealership. We're still discussing it.)
Tonight was "get all of the stuff out of it" night and it made us a little melancholy. Not to mention trying to figure out where to put a small house worth of stuff in our normal house. Ha! (Hmm. We don't need two coffee pots or two sets of dishes and pots and pans... we also had some canned goods and dry goods always stocked in it and bedding for two beds and tools and... you all know the drill...)
The good news is, it's not really for any "bad" reason. Life just changed on us. And not in a bad way.
Over the last year or so, I decided to go from long time Private Pilot to becoming a Flight Instructor as a side job, and eventually that'll be my "retirement job" someday.
The downside to that? Most students with regular job schedules need to fly on weekends with the occasional weekday. My lovely wife is a nurse and has reached the stage of her career where she also has traditional daytime work hours. (So odd for nurses! Ha.)
When we bought it, both of our jobs were significantly different and we had much more flexible schedules. We were going to do some weekday camping and some four day stuff anywhere I could get cellular data service to "work from home" in IT, but then both of us changed jobs, and I got after it on the flying stuff.
So in the end, the trailer sat parked too much and that only looked to get worse. We own it outright, so parking it on our property wasn't any burden, but we realized we just won't be using it enough.
We'll probably get another one someday. We had a really good run with her, and enjoyed every trip we did take. Even the one where the truck blew a fuel pump on a Saturday and we camped out in Nebraska for four days -- and gave those dual air conditioners a real workout!
She's hitched up probably for the last time... and we do seem to have a "job" still for the dually, both as a cargo/work trailer hauler and a fuel truck, so for now, it gets to stay. One other option is outfitting it down the road with a bed camper. Maybe. We've certainly gotten spoiled by our fiver!
Mostly wanted to post to thank this forum. Great folks here. Good knowledge level on the regulars. And awesome projects and insight as to which ones are worth doing. Thanks also to @gkainz for the referral to here.
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(Well technically I think it'll end up on consignment at a local mega-dealership. We're still discussing it.)
Tonight was "get all of the stuff out of it" night and it made us a little melancholy. Not to mention trying to figure out where to put a small house worth of stuff in our normal house. Ha! (Hmm. We don't need two coffee pots or two sets of dishes and pots and pans... we also had some canned goods and dry goods always stocked in it and bedding for two beds and tools and... you all know the drill...)
The good news is, it's not really for any "bad" reason. Life just changed on us. And not in a bad way.
Over the last year or so, I decided to go from long time Private Pilot to becoming a Flight Instructor as a side job, and eventually that'll be my "retirement job" someday.
The downside to that? Most students with regular job schedules need to fly on weekends with the occasional weekday. My lovely wife is a nurse and has reached the stage of her career where she also has traditional daytime work hours. (So odd for nurses! Ha.)
When we bought it, both of our jobs were significantly different and we had much more flexible schedules. We were going to do some weekday camping and some four day stuff anywhere I could get cellular data service to "work from home" in IT, but then both of us changed jobs, and I got after it on the flying stuff.
So in the end, the trailer sat parked too much and that only looked to get worse. We own it outright, so parking it on our property wasn't any burden, but we realized we just won't be using it enough.
We'll probably get another one someday. We had a really good run with her, and enjoyed every trip we did take. Even the one where the truck blew a fuel pump on a Saturday and we camped out in Nebraska for four days -- and gave those dual air conditioners a real workout!
She's hitched up probably for the last time... and we do seem to have a "job" still for the dually, both as a cargo/work trailer hauler and a fuel truck, so for now, it gets to stay. One other option is outfitting it down the road with a bed camper. Maybe. We've certainly gotten spoiled by our fiver!
Mostly wanted to post to thank this forum. Great folks here. Good knowledge level on the regulars. And awesome projects and insight as to which ones are worth doing. Thanks also to @gkainz for the referral to here.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170523/5d6938e2d3345af312a038d018b3c7a6.jpg