Heading North

We will be leaving beautiful Zacatecas this morning, heading North. Our Winter down here has gone much too fast! We have not planned out our route exactly but intend to end up in the city of Chihuahua. It will probably take us a couple of days to get there and once there, we will spend a few days exploring the area. We will be spending the night(s) on the road in shopping malls or Pemex Stations and will probably not have Internet coverage.

I have recently been searching the Internet for a reasonably priced replacement for our motorhome and have a couple of leads. One of them is El Monte RV Rentals which sells off their units after two or three years, depending on the mileage. They have some very nice 29 - 31 foot Class C's with one or two slides for what seems like a reasonable price and have sales offices in Nevada, California and Washington. The reason we would like to stay with a Class C is that we have decided to return to Mexico next winter where roads and RV Parks are a little easier to navigate with a slightly smaller unit and with the addition of a couple of slides, the newer Class C's have almost as much room as the Class A's.

The unit we have now, a 30 foot 1994 Tioga Class C is a former Cruise Canada Rental and we have had no serious complaints with it. It has pretty high mileage (195,000 Km's) so that factor, added to the fact that it has no slides, is prompting the change. Some extra "elbow room" would be nice as the year before last, between Winter in Arizona and taking the granddaughters to Alberta in the Summer, we spent almost eight months in it! The Canadian dollar is now at par and prices in the USA compared to Canada makes the decision to buy one down there a "no brainer". Used rentals are usually used a little harder than privately owned ones but also have much better maintenance and maintenance records. Our son in Victoria wants the old unit which he will use as a portable hotel room for his fencing business. He will fly down to pick it up wherever we buy a newer one. I will keep you informed.....