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Excellent dea for the width issue.......I've had school bus drivers do that for a while when they started. Works very well.

If it were me I would start with familiarizing myself with the coach. Sme things are pretty straight forward, like hookups etc but each rig may have different ways to do the jacks (some have automatic leveling and some you have to level manually). Driving itself is reall nlo different than driving the family car with the exception that you have a bunch more to get around the corner. Keep that in mind and use your rear duels as a guide to get ya around those corners, you'll take it wide a few times but you'll get so you can nail a 90 degree turn in no time. We bought a 42 footer in 07 and I drove it off the lot since my hubby was unfamiliar with several points on it mainly the size and the air system. Basically what I am saying is read the manual and take a class if you can! Of course, I am all for having mandatory driver training for all rvs. I spent my time driving and teaching over the years and while it's not brain surgery it is difficult to get past those first tripsq. As far as set up is concerned, it's going to be difficult that first time but all is possible. I do understand the fear, my husband had major hip surgery and we were headed south for the winter, I just planned that my job would be to do it all and it worked out well. I didn't clean the tanks like my hubby wanted but I got it done and that is the most important thng. Keep in mind that rv'ers are there to help if you get into trouble. Explain your situation and I'm sure someone will assist ya. I know I would if I were there! Enjoy and you'll do just peachy

We are members of all of them, we use Thousand Trails each summer. We have the membership that allows us to go from park to park. We have stayed in vairous locations around the US also. But use them all summer and that pays our dues and also makes a serious payment on the membership also. Coast to Coast we use frequently but not as often as we should. We haven't used RPI - though we are members of it also. Along with the RPI we get Enjoy America which gives us half price camping. We are also members of CampClubUSA and have used it extensively. All of them are good, some more expensive than others but all equally useful in certain circumstances. Again, it's an individual needs type situaltion.

We also use Verizon but have a router so that we can both be online at the same time. It works very well and when our son and his family travel with us, we work all five laptops off of the system. We have only encountered a couple places that it does work but they are very few and far between. We live full time and during the summer months we are on the raod a lot - winters we have DSL with the express card as a back up.....works well.