encantotom
08-09-2008, 06:13 AM
hi all,
my wife and i just finished 5 weeks in the coach and 4200 miles. it was a ball. no major issues (a few small ones, but fun to fix) and for fuel mileage i was close to 7mpg for the trip. the last tank i went over 1400 miles and got just a bit over 7mpg. (btw, paid 4.05 per gallon for diesel at flyin j's just at the arizona border of california on I-10) this afternoon. never thought i would think that was cheap. most paid was 4.80 in oregon. didnt get fuel in British Columbia because i would have had to sell my house to pay for that....
more than that, it was fantasically fun to drive (even down the coast highway from Washington to California) and a pleasure to use in the evenings. i know it is a golden oldie, but it sure doesn't drive like it or look like it. even have a picture of the laptop gps showing us in the ocean as we took a ferry with the newell and the car attached.
we arrived home tonite and will spend a couple of days taking care of a few things then head off for another couple of weeks to go around new mexico.
we met so many nice people and gave lots of tours of our newell. people seemed to be drawn to it and we were always eager to show anyone who wanted to see inside.
we spent a full week talking newell talk day and night with Michael and Georgia Day (and patrick) who were incredible hosts. Clarke and Elaine came down and spent an evening doing the same (all in newport beach) and we enjoyed that.
i am grateful to all the people on this site who have helped me as i learned about my coach, both during the initial purchase last year, the refurbishing and then the past month of actually using it. ( i found out i knew a ton about the actual systems, but not as much about using things....that has been fixed during this past trip)
it is a unique crew of people who love these machines and it has been a pleasure to be counted amongst y'all.
thanks again
tom and darlene mccloud
my wife and i just finished 5 weeks in the coach and 4200 miles. it was a ball. no major issues (a few small ones, but fun to fix) and for fuel mileage i was close to 7mpg for the trip. the last tank i went over 1400 miles and got just a bit over 7mpg. (btw, paid 4.05 per gallon for diesel at flyin j's just at the arizona border of california on I-10) this afternoon. never thought i would think that was cheap. most paid was 4.80 in oregon. didnt get fuel in British Columbia because i would have had to sell my house to pay for that....
more than that, it was fantasically fun to drive (even down the coast highway from Washington to California) and a pleasure to use in the evenings. i know it is a golden oldie, but it sure doesn't drive like it or look like it. even have a picture of the laptop gps showing us in the ocean as we took a ferry with the newell and the car attached.
we arrived home tonite and will spend a couple of days taking care of a few things then head off for another couple of weeks to go around new mexico.
we met so many nice people and gave lots of tours of our newell. people seemed to be drawn to it and we were always eager to show anyone who wanted to see inside.
we spent a full week talking newell talk day and night with Michael and Georgia Day (and patrick) who were incredible hosts. Clarke and Elaine came down and spent an evening doing the same (all in newport beach) and we enjoyed that.
i am grateful to all the people on this site who have helped me as i learned about my coach, both during the initial purchase last year, the refurbishing and then the past month of actually using it. ( i found out i knew a ton about the actual systems, but not as much about using things....that has been fixed during this past trip)
it is a unique crew of people who love these machines and it has been a pleasure to be counted amongst y'all.
thanks again
tom and darlene mccloud