This was the final outing of the 2007 season. We had just moved into a new home, started new jobs and Thanksgiving and Christmas were fast approaching. It was time we thought about letting Harriet sleep for a while.
This last outing was at one of the State Parks in the Denver metro area, Chatfield State Park. It was a beautiful weekend and the coach performed perfectly.
Camping aboard a luxury liner is a dream come true. This coach is by far one of the nicest coaches I've ever owned. The kitchen area is a dream with storage space in abundance and counter space aplenty for food prep and the cocktail prep area with built in ice maker and blender was a treat. Venting the kitchen was a breeze with maxair vent above and the enourmous kitchen window. I don't know why they stopped putting large kitchen windows in motorhomes but they really and truly are a God send while whipping up a three course meal in the middle of summer not to mention the great light they let in reducing the need for lights while food prep during the day.
We were really fortunate to have window awnings on every one of the windows too. Something else I'd never had before. It's nice while parked facing the rising or setting sun. In Denver that sun can be quite warm.
Storage. Where do I even begin. Any of you who have ever owned an RV know the importance of storage. My friends and family to this day don't get it. People tend to forget that once you get there your there so whatever it is you think you may need had better be there or your outta luck. The overhead cabinets abound with every turn of the head and are deep and easily accessable. There are even wrap around storage cabinets above the cock pit area of the coach. Great place for DVDs, CDs, maps, guides, owners manuels and such.
I may have forgotten in all of my excitement to mention the owners manuals to everything in the coach. The orginal owners manual in original condition in original binder was an awesome find in this coach. Everything. All of it. Every single paper that came with this coach from the factory was still wrapped in it's original plastic and packaging. Then there is the original brochure in off the press condition that I salivated over as a child found in the owners manuel package too. Roughly 10 full color pages of every floor plan Foretravel Produced in 1978. When I found that up in the over head compartment I think the earth stood still. No, seriously, I think it stopped. As I flipped through the pages of that brochure I wondered why it is they don't make coaches like this anymore. Such time and thoughtfulness was put into every single detail of this coach. Every where you look, you see originality and thoughtfullness.
