Sure! That option only costs $450,000! A bit entry level, but if you want, you can always upgrade that little F-350 to an International MXT later.

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Just seems like it adds probably a half million to this rig, while destroying the storage capacity. Seems like a lose-lose in a lot of ways.

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The key is, with the car on the back, you can't back up.

Well, you can, but only about four feet before things start to bend/break.

Our 40' beast, with a 'toad', is 57'. A challenge in some places, but nothing like coming across a 9 foot wide opening with a 102" wide vehicle.

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if you want to see something on this planet, chances are good a wholly viable substitute is located on this continent

I've said something to this effect many times before. North America really does have pretty good representative examples of lanforms, flora, and fauna. I've seen a lot of very beautiful places, but I think that as far as natural beauty is concerned, the US is at (or near) the top of the list.

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But I'm still an RV fan. Just not something like this. If I do it, I'm going with something like an f-150 and a modest, yet spacious fifth wheel to tow around.

When I was in college, million-dollar rigs would park right on campus and sit around for several days waiting for the game on Saturday. I guess it got under my skin a little.

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Though the Spanish fort in my native town of St. Augustine is a rare exception: Late 16th century, still very much intact.

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Funny, my wife said to me after my job wasn't working out, "we should travel before we get old and crippled".

I'm down with that.

We've since found the Canadian Rockies make the US Rockies look like a bad first-draft, and you ain't seen flat until you've been to Manitoba/Saskatchewan and seen the soy in bloom. With a light breeze, there is nothing between you and the horizon but quite literally a sea of blue. It truly looks like water at first glance.

What's nice is I understand why people make such a fuss over the autumn leaves in the NE, and Nova Scotia had me looking at a globe to see just how far Scotland was. I can easily see why it was named New Scotland. Pictures cannot do pretty much anything which you'd want to see, justice.

Grand Canyon? You just have to stand on the edge and say, "damn..."

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Yo home dog!

We heard you liked stashing dead hookers in your trunk, so we made you a trunk that you can stash your trunk stashed with dead hookers in.

You be pimpin' fo shizzy, home dog.

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For me, the ability to get close to the sights is the biggest one. With national and state parks, the hotels are usually overpriced and/or sh*tty, so having a luxury RV is a nice substitute.

But unless you're sell the house and go full-time, it rarely makes economic sense.

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Dude, not a problem.

First, some ground rules. You CANNOT buy new. You just can't. Second, you've gotta want to see the space between your destinations. We've found the trip is usually as good, if not better, than the destination, so we're different than many.

My wife and I have been traveling for the past four years in a diesel pusher conveyance, and honestly, I'll do my best to never get on a plane, again.

FWIW, we did sell the house, at the peak of mortgage idiocy, so the house sale paid for the first 18 months and a plot of land in Vegas to park this beast over the winter.

As an aside, Vegas gets old after 'bout four days....

Anyway, after a month-long trip to 'Stralia/En-Zed, we've since been to all 49 states, ten Canadian provinces, and I've found, if you want to see something on this planet, chances are good a wholly viable substitute is located on this continent.

Granted, we'd like to go to Ireland/UK for a while, but that's in the future. I want Guinness from where it's made. I can say it truly tastes better the farther east you go.

You haven't experienced middle-of-nowhere until you've been in the Yukon. It flat-out amazing to see bear, caribou, bison, and all the other critters, roadside.

What else is bitchin' about this form of travel? Towing a '99 Suzuki Grand Sucktara, our Freightliner-chassied Fleetwood gets about 10.5 MPG. I've had cars which were worse, and those didn't have a microwave, shower, and queen-sized bed.

So you're trucking up the road from Anchorage to Fairbanks, and you see a place you'd like to hang out for three hours? Do it. Three days? That works, too.

I've said to my lovely wife; "Sweeite, would you nuke me a burrito and get me a Dr. Pepper?"

This is while motoring along I-40 in eastern AZ. Nice.

The 1.2 million price on this is a dream. You could walk in and give 'em $850K, and they'd take it. I've been in 1.5 million dollar machines, and they're disgustingly over-the-top. Heated marble floors? Got it.

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