After months of planning, hours of praying, and even more hours of shopping, surfing the Net, cruising Craigslist, and generally pouring over the world of RV's, we have finally found our new home. At 10:00 am on Tuesday morning, Amy and I wrote the check for a 1993 Fleetwood Bounder 34S! (That's right... Praise God it is PAID FOR! No financing, no lein. Debt free!) We are presently parked in front of my mother's house in Boise loading the bays, lining the drawers, and hastily making it ready for our maiden voyage starting in less than 24 hours to Phoenix AZ for the start of the Wavorly Keep Breathing Tour! (See Tour Calendar)
We got a crazy deal on this thing. Its old. It's got retro colors on the outside. It has over 100k miles on it. But get this...It had the engine AND transmission fully rebuilt only 8,000 miles ago! It has new tires, and a basically new, oversized top of the line generator. Those three things alone are worth what we paid for this whole thing! Since it was a steal, we were able to buy it without financing it, so it will make keeping the bank from breaking on the road all the more realistic. (Thank you Bob Rathbone for your sound encouragement to do this without borrowing a larger sum of money for a newer coach. We listened!)
We will be traveling through Phoenix, Vegas, Reno, Elko, Idaho, Southern Oregon, 
extensively through California, and then on back to Phoenix by Thanksgiving. From there, well, its kinda an open book, so we'll see where we end up. Stay tuned to this blog for updates. We are excited to finally be ready to roll, and just wanted to thank everyone who has been supporting us, praying for us, and encouraging us on our adventure. We look forward to meeting new people on the road, and staying in touch with all of our friends here at home, wherever YOUR home happens to be! We'll add more details later, and lots more photos as we make this thing "ours", but for now, here are a few details and a quick "before" interior shot!
1993 Fleetwood Bounder 34' long Class A (Bus style)
454 Gas engine, new engine and transmission rebuild 8k miles ago
6 new tires
only 185 hours on the 7000w generator
new carpet on interior
Queen bed in back, sleeper sofa and dinette in front for kids
full kitchen w/ Gas stove, oven, fridge, freezer
and of course... running 2 mac books and a mac mini on a cellular wifi network! (ok... we added those)
TOTAL PRICE - w tax, title, license, etc... $8300!!
Blessings, and let the Share5 Tour begin!
Sharing well with others,
Chad & Amy
I am so happy for you guys! You are in our thoughts and prayers. Let the adventure continue!
Posted by: Lisa | October 29, 2008 at 05:55 AM