Bill, thanks for the pics. Earl and Kyle told me about the macerator but my bum knee wasn't willing to scrunch down there to check it out. Earl said it pumps the tanks almost three times faster. Nice. I saw John's eyes light up at that.
They also have cool LED lights along the inner edge of the awning that operate on their own switch. Also nice.
We hurt ourselves at the show. ONE day is not enough. Lots of walking and climbing in and out of RVs. Three years ago John and I went as nearly totally clueless wannabes. This year we went with a completely different viewpoint. Phoenix wins hands down on inside storage which is big with us. The kitchen beats out all but the big ones. Even some of the big guys had less functional kitchens and less bedroom storage. Some of the rigs were built on the Freightliner chassis (34-40 feet) and there were three steps up to get in the CAB door with that first step from the ground being a big one. It was at least five steps to get in the house door. It was a BIG trucker dude type rig. We did a LOT of steps.
My granddaughter was shopping for one for her and her dad (6'4") and their two large dogs. She really liked the ones with bunk beds. She said "Daddy gets the big bed, I get the top bunk and the doggies get the bottom bunk." She found that floor plan in travel trailers, class A's and class C' s.
We were floored at the cost of the tiny tear drop shaped trailers. One was barely more than a bed you could just sit up in and it was over 6K.
One interesting vendor was Amazon camperforce. You apply and commit to work mid-September until December 23rd. They pay your full hook up campsite and ten dollars and change per hour plus an additional dollar per hour completion bonus (if you stay the whole time). A couple can make $113k in one season. You can make even more with shift differential and overtime. The rest of the year you go out and play.
You can pull this up online. The Texas site is full but they are still hiring for KY, TN southern IN. The rep said temps are usually lows in 40's and highs in 50's or 60's for that time with weather turning bad in January and February.
http://m.camperforcejobs.com/amazon/jobs/mobile/indexEmp.aspx?id=d29697f4-8745-4bd5-925d-04b938d5016c
