Final Preparations

First week of October and our departure date is nearly here, thank goodness! For the last several months I have spent many hours on the Internet and on the phone to the various people in the USA. One thing I will say, is in every conversation I have had on the phone to someone in the US has always been very pleasant, in fact it's been fantastic. I cannot fault a single one of them, from purchasing our fifth wheel to buying insurance every sales representative has been brilliant. I can't wait to meet them and the many other Americans we are bound to meet.

So now we are counting down the days to our departure not months but days. As expected some final purchases come to mind??

Now we already have a GPS with US maps but Camping World sent me an email with a GPS specifically for RVers. The first question that came to mind is what's so special about this GPS? Well with this GPS you enter your type of vehicle, the length, its height as well as many other details and it will take this into consideration when calculating your route. Now I must admit I am nervous about the size of our rig, and I have a truck licence but I would hate to be cruising along some road and wipe off the top of our 13 ft high trailer (3.9 metre) or having to back up 500 metres to avoid a low bridge, that will not look good for us Aussies. This GPS will also warn you of the many other hazards a large rig must be aware of, so for $225-00 it seemed like a good purchase, thanks Camping World and of course free shipping as we are Good Sam Club members.

So while checking out Good Sam we found a link to a club called Passport America. It was $39-95 to join and you receive 50% off selected RV parks, we figured, use it for two nights and we have our money back in the shopping cart it went.

We also intend visiting the many National Parks around the US and we have used the NPS website on our last trip so now we intend to buy a yearly pass, $80-00 for the year, great value.

Final preparations, mmm not to sure about that. There will always be one more thing?




- Posted by RnR on their IPad

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