The Hunt for our RV

Over the past few years we have considered buying an RV for a variety of reasons.  Our daughter is very big into horses and is traveling around the Midwest going to 3-day eventing shows throughout the spring and summer.  Since these shows are often in remote areas we decided it would be nice to have a small RV to be able to get out of the weather, cook, have a clean bathroom and a place to keep our dogs.  We also thought "hey camping might be fun"....

Being new to this, we figured the smaller the RV is the better, so we started looking at class B van types.  Since we pull a horse trailer it quickly became apparent that these units were too underpowered to handle the weight.  Ok... so Class C's....  

No... they also were not powerful enough....  Now we are at the Class A...  And everything indicates -- Diesel as they are much more powerful...

So, the hunt rapidly and radically changed from 12 feet  to 24 feet to Holy Crap 35 feet or more....  At this point, normal people would have decided screw it... whats wrong with sitting out in the weather with no place to go to the bathroom or cook?  Not us...  Yesterday we became the "proud?" owners of a 37 Foot 12 year old Class A Diesel Pusher....  Have we ever driven anything this big?  nooooooo,  do we have a clue how the unit works?  nooooooo

Read on for our experiences....