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[GMCnet] Re: Fuel Injection [message #368348 is a reply to message #368345] Tue, 04 January 2022 12:01 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
sgltrac is currently offline  sgltrac   United States
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Even with hotels, flights, restaurants and rental car flying is almost
always cheaper than Motorhome travel. Especially as the distance to
destination increases and length of stay is shortened. Then if you are
working and need to take time off from work (most jobs have limited
vacation days per year) you may end up losing out on pay days. When I took
the plunge into GMC ownership back in 2015(?) the plan was to travel from
wa to 10 rounds of the AMA NHH off-road series. Since I did not have the
coach ready for the early rounds(which were the furthest travel rounds) we
opted to fly and had our bikes shipped to socal and brought to the races
for us. Flew in Friday, pre run and test Saturday, race and fly home
Sunday. If I had driven the coach the cost of fuel and extra food (in the
road for 5 -6 days) easily eclipsed the total cost of flying and I did not
need to miss a week of work. Now if the plan was to ride/recreate for 4
days or more the tables turn quickly in favor of the mh. Especially if you
destination(s) are far off the beaten path.

Sully
Bellevue wa
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 9:08 AM Matt Colie wrote:

> 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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