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Tue, 04 January 2022 16:17 |
jimk
Messages: 6734 Registered: July 2006 Location: Belmont, CA
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Packing up in the morning and unpacking at evening is lot of hassel.
I can leave my laptop open and not need to plug and unplug.
Have a drink or snack anytime.
Grab a jacket or change shoes.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:05 AM Ken Henderson
wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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
>>> --
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>>> GMCES
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[GMCnet] Re: Fuel Injection
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