03-05-2020, 03:07 PM
There was a site available at the No Rally Rally and we will be there in #63!
This is crazy! Two weeks ago we didn't own a Newell.
Last night I never thought my wife would consider driving to Alabama on the spur of the moment.
Now we are planning to drive 1,600 miles cross-country to meet up with people we don't yet know, all because we all own these peculiar vehicles.
We did something like this once before because of The Newells. In fall 2007 we were driving (in a car) from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida back to Atlanta. We had visited my mother around her birthday and Thanksgiving. Turnpike and I-75 traffic was horrendous and we ended up stopping in Gainsville for the night. I turned on my computer to check on several eBay auctions for motorcoaches I was following. I noted the reappearance of a Newell that had been listed previously, Only now it was listed for $100 k, no reserve. Clearly the previous deal had fallen through and the owner was keen to get rid of it. I think it was a mid '90s coach and at that opening price, I knew somebody was going to get a good deal.
I showed the listing to my wife. She asked where was the coach. Tucson, Arizona. "Why don't we go see it", she asked. Now here is where I should have said "because we are in Florida and we have no warm clothes and we shouldn't drive to Arizona without them."
We did look at the coach. I think it was the first Newell that we went inside. We didn't bid, as we needed to sell our business and our condo first, but it did germinate the seed that led to our recent purchase of 637.
It snowed on I-10 and I-20 when we drove home. We got snowed in for two night in Demming, New Mexico and a night in Colorado City, Texas.
We do not anticipate snow en route to the rally.
This is crazy! Two weeks ago we didn't own a Newell.
Last night I never thought my wife would consider driving to Alabama on the spur of the moment.
Now we are planning to drive 1,600 miles cross-country to meet up with people we don't yet know, all because we all own these peculiar vehicles.
We did something like this once before because of The Newells. In fall 2007 we were driving (in a car) from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida back to Atlanta. We had visited my mother around her birthday and Thanksgiving. Turnpike and I-75 traffic was horrendous and we ended up stopping in Gainsville for the night. I turned on my computer to check on several eBay auctions for motorcoaches I was following. I noted the reappearance of a Newell that had been listed previously, Only now it was listed for $100 k, no reserve. Clearly the previous deal had fallen through and the owner was keen to get rid of it. I think it was a mid '90s coach and at that opening price, I knew somebody was going to get a good deal.
I showed the listing to my wife. She asked where was the coach. Tucson, Arizona. "Why don't we go see it", she asked. Now here is where I should have said "because we are in Florida and we have no warm clothes and we shouldn't drive to Arizona without them."
We did look at the coach. I think it was the first Newell that we went inside. We didn't bid, as we needed to sell our business and our condo first, but it did germinate the seed that led to our recent purchase of 637.
It snowed on I-10 and I-20 when we drove home. We got snowed in for two night in Demming, New Mexico and a night in Colorado City, Texas.
We do not anticipate snow en route to the rally.