Only a fool uses a map his wife is reading...........Yeh, 1970 version, fold-up map and a compass. Only wimps use sat navs -
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Only a fool uses a map his wife is reading...........Yeh, 1970 version, fold-up map and a compass. Only wimps use sat navs -
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Nice to see you are back off your travels Mr T not lost you stingingly sharp wit I see. I didn't mention the brolly fixed over the drivers seat or the e-cigarette and smoking ban, I was attempting to give a positive account of my motorhoming history.I found myself at one of life's crossroads. Things were going downhill fast..... My portable steam TV business wasn't doing so well since The Green Party came out against fossil fuels, my drinking problems had accelerated to the dizzy amount of two bottles of Angostura Bitters a day, the court case concerning the three women and a feather duster in a phone box was due to be heard, with my solicitors predicting a positive outcome for the Tickle Triplets, and next doors dog kept digging the wife up.
It was at that stage I decided to cast my foul habits, and previous life behind, to escape a constant round of self flagellation and abuse, and buy myself a quality motor home.
So I purchased a Swift with a built in roof shower, took up smoking 80 tabs a day, and rode a pedal cycle like a demented idiot on speed.
Signed,
Buttons.
Val's voices obviously.......Q. Why or how did you become a motorhomer?
A. It was the voices in my head .... they told me to do it.
A happy wife means a happy life ..............Val's voices obviously.......
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So you have been at it for a while too chaser. Even now we sometimes stay on a Haven site, like you I think they are great. An A35 blimey that is going back a bit, I always felt they were about to tip over for some reason.Only doing this on my phone so probably been done as I haven't read back, but I started in an a35 van when 18, progressed to commer van, till we got too many kids for it so then went to haven holiday static for a few years , some knock it we loved it, still do. Then went, as you do to package European holidays, then went into having our own static, worst thing anyone can do, god it makes me sweat just thinking about it, now we are back full circle to motorhoming.
I bet you had a good look around for one with two wheels before taking the plunge.
Ianthebuilder is proving just how flexible a motorhome can be. Living working entertaining traveling just to name a few....Some lovely stories on this thread.
And we've all got one thing in common ( well 2 if you count the MH) we all like the fact that we are be holding to no one and can pick and choose our own trips/ holidays or lifestyles! So glad we took the plunge 7 years ago!
Hi Brodie I think I have said before what a great name Brodie is. It is my youngest sons name and he is very pleased with our choice. The T5 is a great van I loved my California's. Does your T5 have a pop top or are you fitting one. They are comparatively small but very well proportioned, get used to that and nothing beats it.We talked about it on and off for a while, then one night hubby came downstairs and said 'guess what'? me 'what'?
Then he breaks the new to me that he has just bought a motorhome and will be picking it up at the weekend!!!
We were 31 and 34 so relatively young for motorhomers. I was also 4/5 months pregnant at the time with our 3rd baby. About 3 weeks later we were on the ferry over to Calais in the August. We had a few weekends here and there and by March the next year we were off again on our adventures with a 12 week old baby and 2 small children.
Neither of us had camped etc before, we usually had package holidays and then when children came along we started driving to France for holidays in statics.
We absolutely love it and have covered a lot of miles and taken the kids to places which would probably be achievable in years rather than weeks. We sold the big bertha and had a couple of package holidays again just to give the kids a different experience of a holiday, it just doesn't cut it.
We are now just about to complete a VW T5 conversion which will be a temporary measure until we can convert a bigger panel van. I can't wait, my smile has been ear to ear for the last couple of weeks
Off to Normandy in a couple of weeks and the central region in about 5 weeks. Did I say we LOVE it!!
Yeah 1965 round the Welsh mountains with a mate with sack bags in the back of the old a35 for two weeks , must have smelt high when we got home but never looked back, started courting with a girl who's whole family were into caravans , vw,s statics the lot , did this till we got the commer for about 6 years till family got too big for it , then we did haven for years , being farming and only having one week a year it had to be one we all liked and knew it would be good , so this is how it went for maybe ten years , then the kids started doing their own thing and we started going on Wallace Arnold continental coach holidays with Inlaws , which again was great, but then the biggest mistake anyone could make , saw a static for sale in Prestatyn in the supermarket adds, and went and bought it , god it's the worst thing anyone could do, always got to go to the same place just because it's there, same people next door , friends and relations think they can have free holidays and always when you want to go , rent always going up , God it's awful, anyway ended up giving it back to the owners , couldn't sell it , got to move it off but no one else would have it .So you have been at it for a while too chaser. Even now we sometimes stay on a Haven site, like you I think they are great. An A35 blimey that is going back a bit, I always felt they were about to tip over for some reason.
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Hi Brodie I think I have said before what a great name Brodie is. It is my youngest sons name and he is very pleased with our choice. The T5 is a great van I loved my California's. Does your T5 have a pop top or are you fitting one. They are comparatively small but very well proportioned, get used to that and nothing beats it.
A happy wife means a happy life ..............
Aah, we aren't lucky enough to be able to do that.We all like freedom but getting on a plane and picking up a hire car at JFK airport is also freedom. I am just booking a hire car to pick up at Palma airport for a week that gives us plenty of freedom to travel around the island but I know where you are coming from mercianman.
Brilliant stuff Brodie, dont think about "bigger will be better" think about the many benefits of driving a small van We have a small toilet tent which we put up in 2 minuets and put the toilet and any other junk in. We have an awning but normally leave it at home and just take a couple of small tents to give extra space if we need it. For longer stays I had a Pennine trailer tent. It tows ded easy and can be erected on concrete if needed, just unfold the sides and get the kettle on but rarely towed it.Ah yes I remember! It is a very cool name, one of our beloved cats was called Brodie 17 years young, bless him. I wish we had called our son it now too when I think about it.
It is a great van, it was my husbands work van and he was ready for a new one so we have bought it off the business to have privately. I thought why sell on a vehicle that someone else will probably convert when we can get the pleasure from it? It is on an 08 plate and only 77,000 which is fairly low mileage for a work horse, plus it has been serviced and looked after as we have had it from 2 years old and the father in law had it for the 2 years prior to that from brand new.
Rich is making a fabulous job of converting it and it should be just about complete by mid next week. He has worked like a trooper and has taken him about 6/7 weeks in total working evenings and weekends. A lot of our time has been taken up trying to find everything that we want/need including a bed that will also provide 3 seatbelts. We've had that fabricated and it has gone off to be upholstered this week. We haven't put a top on because there are 5 of us so need quite a big top box for all the 'stuff'. We have bought a massive awning though. The furniture is being delivered tomorrow and that has been altered to fit the narrow space that the extra width in the seat has taken.
I know it won't be quite the same as having 5 berth coach built motorhome but it will be as good as it gets for a couple of years until we have the time to do a bigger conversion.
I'll put some pictures up when it's complete. He's outside now fitting the reversing sensors (for my benefit lol) and I've just told him how proud I am of the job he has made. Awwww
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Our MoHo is 5.8 metres long, which means that we can just fit into a normal car parking space - either on-street parking or in a car park (not a multi-storey for obvious reasons!) We've been to many places in England, Scotland, Wales, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and northern Spain. It's certainly big enough for the two of us.I know it won't be quite the same as having 5 berth coach built motorhome but it will be as good as it gets for a couple of years until we have the time to do a bigger conversion.
Just had a thought brodie, Your T5 will fit below height barriers... hey heyCorrect!!
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