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Originally Posted by kazbates
He was actually looking at something like this:
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knowing how I like to travel.  He figures if he can give me a little luxury on the road I won't mind all the other work that goes with it.  |
Well, I prefer the smaller one... We're thinking about getting one, a bit bigger than that Mercedez-Benz, but not as huge as one of those American ones. You hardly see those huge RV's here. I actually saw only one, while we were in Sankt Moritz, it even had a smart car inside it...
(oh, as an answer to the original question: Do Americans have it better? No, but they must have everything larger!)
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Sounds good for you. Actually, I love to travel, except for the traveling part. You know how they say "the journey blah blah blah the destination.." Just don't tell me that after 45 minutes sitting in traffic in the middle of Maryland somewhere. Or the one time we waited 3 hours to get through the toll booths of the Geo Washington bridge.
Argh!!!
BOb
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That's why we tend to go to non-tourists places and avoid highways. And the journey is usually the important part of the holiday, unless we go skiing (then we just want to get there, so we go by train).
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Yeah. Back when I had my van, I didn't haul a toad (for those not of the RV culture, a "toad" is the car that would normally be "towed" behind your RV), so I would unplug all the hookups at the campsite each day (again, cultural reference "hookups" are electrical, water and sewer connections to your RV), and go sightseeing.
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We always did that. But then, we hardly ever stayed in one place longer than 2 days when we were traveling around in that bus. I remember one year, when we went all the way to the south of Spain in winter (in
Marbella at Christmas and in
San Sebastian at New Year) and that next summer, we went to the top of Norway (from Denmark, to Sweden, to Finland, to Norway and then the entire length of Norway back to Oslo and finally back home, I want to do that again!).
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
The US is a perfect place for motorcycle touring! (Of course, so are most other places in the world, but the US makes it easy!) There is no better way to really see a country than from the back of a motorcycle. You become part of the environment rather than a spectator passing through it watching from inside a metal box.
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It's a nice way to travel and see the world!
Stitchawl
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Oh, I will believe that! But I doubt I'll ever learn to ride one
But I do agree on camping. I don't like motels or hotels. I like my own tent much better!