Motorhome viewing and changing the face of holidays going forward

 

The problem with leaving S at home, unsupervised, for a weekend is that he’s prone to talking himself into something being a good idea when it does not meet the criteria that we were working to.  Or, at any rate, the criteria I thought we were working to.  

So we set off this morning on a road trip to West Yorkshire to see a motorhome that is a little older than I was told was the preference, has a couple of times the preferred mileage, is at the very top of the size category that was under consideration and right rather than left hand drive.

I was told that there will have to be some compromises regardless.  I get that.  I just wasn’t expecting these to be the areas we would be compromising on.  We hadn’t considered any right hand drive ones before this one hoved into view for starters.  The last one we went to see was of a similar age but this one has 2.5 times+ more mileage.   This is also a good 8 metres long ie to my, never driven anything much bigger than a Transit/Jeep Grand Cherokee, eye it is huge!  Granted I expected somewhere 7m plus and was ready for driving lessons but 8m seems a bit big.  Probably because it is.

I had expected the compromises would fall under the ‘layout’ heading, whilst hoping that having a shower would not feel too much like hovering over the loo and if there was no oven/grill then there would be room for an air fryer somewhere (preferably also not hovering over the loo).

I was assured there is plenty of storage space.  Given I have crammed the kitchen cupboard and my wardrobes full, at home, some limitations might not be the worst idea as regards the motorhome.  I (actually, we) have a track record of filling any space available. 

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So post viewing S was filthy and I was not exactly pristine.  We are not what you would call dream customers.  Much poking around, much crawling around the floor with phone flash lights, much pulling off seat pads and sticking noses into lockers with “fancy” (the sales guy’s word for an inverter) kit in them.  All followed by much perusal of documents and sitting in the driver’s seat imagining sheer drops and rock faces along side.  

Then an adjournment for coffee and cake to debate exactly how we are going to make use of it whilst still working before returning to put down a deposit.  Selling to us might be considered more a marathon than a sprint!

It is awaiting a part and a few other checks/bits and pieces so taking delivery is likely to be measured in weeks though, hopefully, not too many.

N.B.  The photo above is not what we were looking at.