Just lookin'...

We are getting Big Red packed for the road again.  Wild Blue is plugged in, tires and hubs checked.  Back on the road tomorrow.  With most of the work to get rolling again done, I talked Joan into visiting an RV Show at the big stadium here.  Well, let's clarify that: it is an RV sale, put on by one dealer.  But, they do have over 300 units to browse.  And it is AT the stadium, not IN the stadium... in the parking lot.  In the hot sun.  It's 90º here this afternoon, and not much breeze.

Still, we had fun looking at the 2013s on display.  Seems that the different manufacturers are a lot like people in our former industry: everybody copies each other.  Similar floorplans.  Motorized RVs that had fewer comfortable seats in the living room area than they used to.  Or, maybe I'm just sensitized to that, after spending the summer sitting at a dinette?  As I recently told my friend, Pat, in regards to "getting your head into" something, I'm ready to sit in my LazyBoy recliners at home. ;-)

The RV show made me homesick for the comfort of the HitchHiker, too.  I'm over the novelty of a rectangle bed, now I'm ready for a Select Comfort rectangle bed again. :-)

This is the first day of the RV show, and there were not many people there; pretty much what you'd expect on a Thursday afternoon.  We figured it would be a good opportunity to look around without a crowd... we didn't figure the sales people would outnumber the folks looking.  They did.  And, we did our best to stay polite and let them know that we were "just looking" and had no intention of buying anything.  There must have been a contest for snagging the first buyer - they were everywhere and being overly "helpful."  There is something to be said for walking through a show like this after it's been open a couple of days. ;-)