dieseldan,
I just started lurking but plan to spend a good amount of time here. Last year I decided it was time to start preparing for snowbirding. You may have noticed that I'm one of your neighbors. I live in Chickaloon and commute the 75 miles to work in Anchorage each day.
Anyway, when I went to go pickup my first RV last August I saw a 5er I liked a lot more than my new Raptor, a KV Escalade Sporter. But my new pickup couldn't handle it (actually it just barely handles the Raptor).
It's too soon to trade my Raptor up so I've been thinking about what I would use for a new tow vehicle. The safe and logical vehicle would be 450 or 550 Ford, or an MDT. At least until yesterday this was true.
havaraptor (T2000 and Raptor) is also on the rv.net forum and I've always coveted his rig but thought it too impractical and expensive. So last evening I saw a comment about this forum, took a look and spent about 5 hours reading about HDT's.
Now I'm hooked. I was a driver when i was 19. HDT's have changed a lot from the 60's but I can see now that they are the logical tv answer if you are going to fulltime and travel a lot.
I'll start lurking now and make my plans to upgrade my tv in '08. If you're out this way this summer please stop in to Chickaloon. I've got plenty of room and I'd love to talk to someone that actually does use a HDT as a tv.
Doug
