22 August 08 - 01:18
Choices
As I mentioned before there are three versions of the Winnebago View, the motorhome we've been thinking about buying.
Interested in the idea that maybe we wouldn't have to fold up the bed each day but neither would we have to crawl over one another to get up from the bed, we looked first at the 24P, the one with bunk beds in the back. Unfortunately, there's a step in front of them and I am not tall enough to be able to sit back over it far enough to be able to get my creaky knees into the lower bunk never mind trying to climb the ladder to the top bunk. Plus when I sat on the bunk, the middle section fell a few inches. The salesman fixed it but when Dave later sat on it; guess what?
But Dave demonstrated that he could get into the top bunk and it would be nice to have that lower bunk for storage so, we checked out the sofa bed in that same unit. It opens into the room towards the lounge chair—so far towards the lounge chair that it can only be opened when the slide is out, which is not good for blacktop camping. [A slide is part of the wall that extends into the space next to you when parked, making that part of the room wider and blacktopping is where you stay overnight in some parking lot where you are allowed to sleep but are not supposed to "set up camp".] And even with the slide out, the bed opens right up against the lounge chair so I cannot walk around the bed. It's mattress is an air bed with an automatic pump. The control is on the cab side of the RV and the bathroom is on the coach side of the RV. With my artificial knees, I cannot crawl over the bed. So, I would need to pump up the bed, go out the cab door, walk back to the coach door, and enter the RV there in order to get into the bed on the side that would let me get up in the middle of the night. Let's call that less than desirable.
So, we looked at the 24J. This one has a bed in the corner of the back. We knew I wouldn't be able to get in and out of that bed but, perhaps, Dave could sleep there and I could sleep on the sofa bed in that unit. This sofa bed opened with a jackknife-type mechanism. I could sleep there with the slide in or out. But, when we checked out the bathroom in that unit, we found not enough room in front of the toilet for either of us to rise from a sitting position. More of "less than desirable".
So, now we were down to the the 24H. This has no bed other than the big one over the cab we had both been avoiding. I watched Dave climb the ladder into it successfully but coming down that ladder was not something he wanted to do much of. But, this one also had both a sofa bed and a dinette that converts to a bed. Again the sofa bed was the jackknife type that I could sleep on without having to extend the slide. The dinette bed is 1/2” longer than Dave is tall. But, he's been sleeping kitty-corner in the Free Spirit so he's not intimidated by that. In fact, he said he thought he'd sleep better in this one since I'd not be sharing it with him so he could wiggle around any which way without worrying about disturbing me. And the bathroom in this one is the biggest bathroom of all three. And we liked the way we could sit on the couch or dinette and feel like we had lots of room even before we opened the slide.
The 24H feels more like a home than any
of the others. So, that's what our new home is: a Winnebago View 24H.
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Now
we have the whole process of deciding what goes where to do all over
again.
TTYL,
Linda
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Now you will have to modify some more sheets! Feel free to come up and use our sewing machine again.
Pat () - 22 08 08
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