The Saga of TBH part 2

Several weeks later, we found out that renting the RV isn’t that bad, they just kill you on the mileage.

So we checked into plane tickets. It was $600 round trip per person in about January of this year. Not too shabby, but Mom and Dad didn’t feel they wanted to reserve tickets so far in advance.

By April the prices had doubled. Now it was $1,800/per person round trip. Lee being the frugal, cost conscious, (cheap) man that he was swore it was highway robbery and suggested that maybe we could take them in his tiny (but well maintained) Skymaster. We could fly them out there ourselves!

OK- that wasn’t going to happen no matter how expensive the plane tickets were!

Then Lee got the bit in his mouth. He began researching purchasing an RV. After all you can buy an inexpensive 5th wheel for around $20-$30K. Then we could have something afterwards we could use. Of course his truck is only a ½ ton pickup and can’t haul anything that heavy AND 5th wheels have many steps in them, which Mom and Dad at their age have trouble dealing with.

“You know GM is going under and needs to get rid of their trucks, maybe we could trade my truck and get a 3/4 to haul it with...” Lee hypothesized. We found out that GM isn’t in such bad straits, it would cost us an additional $20K to upgrade to 3/4 ton pickup.

“What!” I screeched. “That’s ridculous!” Scrap that idea.

By now Lee was looking at bus conversions. “Did you know that regular Class A RVs aren’t put together worth a sh..darn (I’m editing, this is a G rated blog)? I mean they just collapse if they’re in an accident. These bus conversions are REALLY REALLY safe.”