Hi Everyone. Well, after 15 years the RV-Dreams Community Forum is coming to an end. Since it began in August 2005, we've had 58 Million page views, 124,000 posts, and we've spent about $15,000 to keep this valuable resource for RVers free and open. But since we are now off the road and have settled down for the next chapter of our lives, we are taking the Forum down effective June 30, 2021. It has been a tough decision, but it is now time.
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Everything went very well with RV driving lessons through The RV Driving School this weekend. They were originally suggested on this forum and when we inquired the price seemed right.
DH took us to Augusta Maine where we were met by our instructor, Bill Baxter. He was knowledgeable and patient. I was the one who needed lessons, never having driven with our travel trailer attached. It was hard work I never thought I'd be exhausted from learning and driving. I was beat. However, I can now back up all 60' + of us (32' trailer and Suburban) into a regular parking space and can maneuver over mountainous, narrow winding roads and through congested downtowns and main streets and such. I have lost my fear of taking my turn at the wheel and feel it will be extremely helpful on long trips to be able to "spell" DH with the driving as I am confident now that I can do it.
The only difficult part of this weekend is that we needed a place to stay on Saturday evening and the only park close to Augusta was a KOA. I can't say too much bad about it except I was puzzled about the way things were handled by management (I sort of felt like we were in a police state as I've never been in a park before where employees come around constantly in little golf carts with blue police type lights on the top and everything that you can or cannot do is so highly regulated). It was not a particularly pretty park and the pull thrus were just that and not much more and very expensive. But it was only one night and we tried to ignore all of the organized park stuff (flashlight candy games for the rugrats, hayrides (yippee!).
End product is---learned a lot, got really tired and feel like it was a big success. I would recommend the RV Driving School to anyone.
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
Congrats!! Even if most of your driving will be on the longer driving days to spell your husband, there's a relief knowing you can take over if necessary. I drove more than half of our drive last weekend because Dale's hand was really hurting and it was nice to know I could do it when I had to, although I have to admit I was happy to let him drive through the congested city part of the trip.
This is something I'm hoping I can persuade Deb to do once we have our RV in hand. At this point, she's dead set against driving, but I know it's important for her to have the knowledge and skill to take over in a pinch, even if that's the only time she takes the wheel. I'll use these "testimonials' when the time is right.
