Thursday, September 08, 2005

RV Update

Well, we spent last weekend crawling in and out of Sprinter and van-based RV's, finally ending up at the Airstream spot where we found what seems to work best for us -- the Interstate model. Unfortunately, it is priced out of our reach unless we can find a huge discount or a used one. The floorplan is what sold us over the rest of the Sprinter conversions. It's a new "dinette" plan that really makes for a spacious feel, or at least as spacious as you can get in a six-foot wide vehicle. Here's are views of the exterior and interior (looking rearward towards the rear kitchen/bath).--- As you can see, I'm still having trouble figuring out Blogger's orientation of pictures with the text. These were supposed to appear at the right of the text, but they plopped down above everything. Dragging them seems to work, but they keep jumping around. Blogger needs to do some work. Anyway, the dinette on the left converts to a bed, as does the couch on the right. This grey is a dreadful color scheme. We saw much better decor in the model we toured. This photo came off a dealer's web site. We'll see what kind of deals are being offered at the big RV show next month at Pomona, but will likely wait until next year to buy. Meanwhile, I'm using my new toy --- a laser level device -- to create a profile contour map of our sloped driveway to see whether we can get one of these up it without bottoming out the tail.