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Originally Posted by wredman
Any place that can only fit a 27' RV is probably too small for me to want to stay there anyway.
Any place that is too treacherous to drive a 28' RV is too treacherous to drive an RV.
8+ ft wide, 12' ft tall is the issue, turning radius will bite you some time, regardless of your turning radius.
Towing a car, which limits or eliminates your ability to use reverse, is the issue in gas stations.
Thinking you can use a coach that is small enough to take to run errands is nice, until you have to break camp/batten down the coach every time you want to go anywhere.
Get the one that is more comfortable to be in, then take what the drive gives you. Enjoy.
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From when we started looking to now, we reached the conclusion that we really don't want to break down camp to run to the store because we forgot toilet paper or decide to pickup food rather than cook. We started out looking for RVs that were small enough to do both, but then thought about that.
Do we really want to unhook water, electric, sewer and drive off and then struggle to find the outside spaces big enough to park?
So, after talking to some friends on reading on here and other forums, I decided that whether we went with a Toad day one or shortly after, that's where we were going to wind up, so we expanded from looking at 24'/25' coaches to 27-28' coaches and landed on the Vegas, but that still leaves it REALLY tight for us considering one of the main reasons for getting an RV is the ability to take our two standard poodles with us.
Since we are planning to tow a jeep regardless, I started to think that we might be better off just biting the bullet of a slightly harder learning curve on driving and get something in the 31-32' range, that has living room slides.
The ACE 30.1 or Windsport/Hurricane 31S look nearly perfect for us. Many of the things we liked about the Vegas, like the large shower, queen bed, etc., but the addition of the living room slide to open up the space for us and the two tall, lanky dogs.
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