The cost of freedom-well worth it

About the new or 2nd hand Jayco Eagle...Thanks everyone for your feedback and ideas.

I just love this way of 'kicking tyres' with others. In the end we have decided to go the new one, and have been looking around for the best deal. Have secured one for $19,500 with end flys and an innerspring mattress.

What has decided us is that Jayco cleverly don't allow their warrantee to be transferred from the original owner, so if something does go wrong we'd be paying to fix it. Also, we figure that the price difference between new and 2H is not enough to make heaps of difference, AND as we definitely want an Eagle and they don't come up all the time....we've ordered one.

Alan (lsp=long suffering partner) is having a good old time at work, telling them all how his wife was 'feeling trapped' so talked him into buying a camper trailer. But then, he continues, we had to buy a new car to pull it ($46,000). Then of course the car wouldn't fit in the garage, so he had to get the door widened and a new remote tilt-a-door installed ($1,750). He goes on to talk about the costs of fitting tow bar, electric brakes, trip to Melbourne to pick it up and bring it back to Tassie... well by the end of this everyone is rolling around and patting him on the back, and calling him a poor old bast**d.

I don't know about you, I think he's over-reacting.