| [GMCnet] Trip Report, Teton-Yellowstone-Rushmore [message #130707] |
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Hi Randy,
Glad to hear about your great trip. What a time that your grand kids will never forget! Life is good when you can do things like this. We, also, are ones who enjoy traveling in our GMC and enjoy learning about other folks adventures. We like the idea of wearing ours out from use (20,000 miles last year alone) and spend time on it in the garage only to make sure it is ready to go on our next adventure. Even at today's gas prices it is still the cheapest, most relaxing way to travel, at least for us. I still have a gazillion unused frequent flyer miles that that I earned learning to hate flying........Thanks for the trip report.
Jerry
Jerry and Sharon Work
78 Royale rear lounge
Kerby, OR
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
541-592-5360
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:06:33 -0500
From: Randy Van Winkle <rvanwin@yahoo.com>
Subject: [GMCnet] Trip Report, Teton-Yellowstone-Rushmore
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Most posts here are about problems with the GMC. New or prospective owners may get the impression that they break all the time. I wanted to post about our recent trip with our two oldest grandkids (Mary, 13 and Rachel, 11). 3600 miles without any problems. GMC ran great and we all had a wonderful time. We left MO on Monday, May 30th and returned home, Monday, June 13th. We visited the Grand Tetons then on to Yellowstone. We thought we might be too early for Yellowstone but despite one really cold day, we had an excellent visit there. No crowds and the wildlife was in the process of emerging from the long, hard winter. We saw 5 grizzlies, 2 black bears, 3 wolves, Elk, Moose and the ever present Bison.
We originally planned on going up to Glacier but because of the large snow fall and unpredictable weather, we changed plans and decided to spend time in the Mt. Rushmore area. That worked out great. Camped in Custer State Park and went to Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse and the Needles highway. The next day we went to Wind Cave and Mammoth Site. On to the Badlands NP where the girls had a great time climbing on the hills. Saw some mountain goats there.
Stopped in and had a nice visit with Bob and Marlys Drewes in SD. Had a great time there. On to Minneapolis to visit our youngest son and family then back to MO.
We have really enjoyed our GMC. Since it became operational for us in September of 2007, we have put over 44,000 trouble free miles on the coach. Given regular maintenance, these coaches will run many miles trouble free.
Here is a photo that Bob took while we were visiting: <http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=39619&nocache=1>. We had a great time!
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Randy & Margie
'77 Eleganza II '403'
Battlefield, MO
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Jerry & Sharon Work
78 Royale
Kerby, OR
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