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Re: [GMCnet] Re: Fuel Injection [message #368345 is a reply to message #368343] Tue, 04 January 2022 11:08 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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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

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