Tampa RV Show

We were up and out early this morning, dropping Matt and Sarah at Disney World before Chris and I headed west to Tampa for the 2008 Tampa RV Show. We saw hundreds of RVs including a $2 million Featherlite Luxury Coach which was pretty amazing. It even had an enclosed double decker car trailer to tow behind if you want to pay a little extra. I've put the link up if you want to see how the rich boys live. Personally, I can't imagine ever driving something like that. There simply aren't that many places to park it, or at least we haven't found many places that will take a 45 ft long motorhome very easily. Apparently, many owners of these coaches also have a hired driver. Very posh and ornate inside with lots of mirrors and two 48" plasma televisions. The salesman told me the company only builds 36 of these a year. Maybe in another lifetime.

We had a good time at the expo and picked up a few much needed accessories including two MaxAir covers for the roof of our Bounder and a new mat for under the main awning. The covers fit over our external roof fans and permit us to travel with these vents open if needed, instead of closed as we do now, thereby giving better air circulation. We had a woven straw mat from Camping World but don't like it as much as the new lighter and stronger one we bought from J+J Sunshades of Lakeland, FL.

We got back to the RV around 4 pm. Buddy had behaved very well and was very eager for his lunch/dinner after he took care of some other business.

Kids are still at Disney until after the fireworks tonight.