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Tue, 04 January 2022 13:04 |
GMCWiperMan
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Jim,
I agree with you about commercial flying these days. After we returned
from the Rhine River cruise with Manny & Deo a few years ago, I resolved,
"The only way I'll fly again is if I can look out the cockpit windows."
My granddaughter last week came up with the answer to that excuse for not
taking the family to Hawaii again: "You can just rent a passenger jet --
Let's see, at current rates (she's a scheduler for Delta), that will only
cost you $260,000 (or some such absurd number which I ignored) for the 11
of us!" :-) or more appropriately :-(
I guess my ONLY mode of extended travel from now on will be the GMC.
Ken H.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:38 PM James Hupy wrote:
> Having done at least 3 coast to coast trips in our GMC and too many 600
> mile one way trips to remember, we are confirmed motor home travelers.
> I have flown commercial flights many, many times. When it was just
> show up, get your boarding pass, and check your luggage it was tolerable.
> But, today is a whole different situation. Get there 2 hours before your
> flight is scheduled to leave, stand in line to be subjected to everything
> but a cavity probe, and endless stupid questions from government employees
> who appear to me to be bored with having gainful employment, only to have
> your flight delayed or cancelled all together, is not my idea of a pleasant
> experience.
> We occasionally eat dinner at a restaurant called the flight deck at
> Salem Airport. It overlooks a fixed base operator and fueling depot.
> Frequented by all manner of biz jets etc. They taxi up, passengers board
> while the crew handles their luggage, they board, strap in a roomy
> comfortable seat, taxi out and are airborne in 20 minutes or less, then fly
> closer to their ultimate destination than you can get on large airlines,
> where a limo or some such picks them up very near the plane. Now that's the
> "ONLY WAY TO FLY" that has much appeal to me.
> Oh yes, throw Covid into the mix. Large half drunk crowds make me
> uneasy, especially in an aluminum tube the size of a large sewer pipe. But,
> that's just me, I guess.
> Jim Hupy
> Salem, Oregon
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022, 10:03 AM CJV wrote:
>
>> Kathy and I have discussed this issue ad nauseum. After 10 years of
>> traveling in our 36' diesel and recording the costs it is clear that
>> spending 6 months of every year wandering around, it is marginally
> cheaper
>> than flying, or driving a car and staying in hotels. But the real
> argument
>> is that you are master of your own fate and can disregard all airline and
>> hotel limitations. Nothing beats parking in the desert, or National
> Forest,
>> at random, all by yourself, free, for the night.
>>
>> CJ Vermeulen, Scribbler
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matt Colie"
>> To: "gmclist"
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 11:08:42 AM
>> Subject: [GMCnet] Re: Fuel Injection
>>
>> Keith V wrote on Tue, 04 January 2022 09:38
>>> James Hupy said:
>>> " If I was concerned about fuel economy, I would... "
>>>
>>> If anyone is really concerned about fuel economy, they wouldn't be
>> driving a motorhome!
>>>
>>> To me the choice is to drive a compact car to a hotel in the city v
>> drive a cool ol coach and camp in a beautiful campground while still
> having
>>> all the comforts of home. The GMC is nice, cheap, maintainable cool and
>> small. The only thing smaller is a van, but they arn't cheaper or better.
>>>
>>> Keith Vasilakes
>>
>> Keith,
>>
>> I can tell that you never ran the numbers of travel.
>>
>> Sometimes, flying is cheaper. Get there, rent a car, see what you can
> and
>> fly home. You get to see almost as much in between as you do from the
>> interstate. Things you can't do from an airplane: Rt-66, The Great
> River
>> Road, The Blue Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace. (Just for
> starters...)
>> Taking your own car, stay in motels (Only pick those with a breakfast
>> bar), and then add in the restaurants and such is actually more
> expensive.
>> Cheap motels are now 70$ a night. At least in your own car, you can get
>> off the blue roads and see something. (Like any one of a number of little
>> museums and historic sights that we either planned a stop or tripped over
>> on our way to somewhere.
>> OK, fuel for the coach isn't cheap, but now we are cooking our own meals
>> so we get what we want. We can put the left-overs in the reefer. Drinks
>> and
>> snacks on the road are right there. If there isn't a motel where we
>> decide to stop for the night, there is probably at least a flat sort of
>> quiet
>> place.
>>
>> Airlines have schedules. We don't.
>> Road trips need restaurants and Motels. We don't
>> The dog(s) don't need to get boarded somewhere, she comes along.
>> (Unfortunately, we are now down to just one dog.)
>>
>> Yes, I am dweeb engineer and live a lot of my life at the bottom left
>> corner of a spreadsheet, but all the time I was growing and particularly
>> when we
>> lived in a house and had a television, I would watch travel shows. Those
>> were places I dreamed of getting to see, and we have gotten to many of
> them.
>> You just can't get to some places by boat and a motorhome is the nearest
>> thing to a boat that I know.
>>
>> Matt
>> --
>> Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL,
>> GMCES
>> Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum
>> Brakes with Applied Control Arms
>> SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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