Tampa RV Show & RV Shopping

We've been talking lately about how we want to do more traveling and what would be the best way to do that - driving the car and staying in motels, or getting another RV. If we get another RV, would it be a motor-home or a travel trailer? We want something smaller than the 39' motor-home that we had before when we were living in it full-time.

That brought up more questions - if we got a motor-home we couldn't tow the Subaru Outback - we would either have to tow it on a trailer, get a different car, or travel with only the motor-home. I know a lot of people disconnect their motor-home from the campground hookups and use it for sightseeing, but that doesn't really appeal to us. 

If we got a travel trailer, how much weight can the Subaru Outback tow? Well, the hitch weight for the Outback is 200 lbs which means we would have to have a very light weight travel trailer or pop-up.

We decided we didn't really want to get a motor-home and have to get a different car to tow. So Mike and I have been looking on the internet to see what travel trailers or pop-ups we can tow with the Outback.

We just went to the Tampa RV Supershow this week. We drove over on Wednesday and spent the night at the La Quinta Inn at Pinellas Park. We paid $66 for the room and that was with their New Year Sale Promotion. Then on Thursday we went to the RV Show at the Florida State Fairgrounds.

We saw a lot of RV's, but the majority of them are too heavy or the tongue weight is too much for the
Outback to tow. So more looking on the internet to see if we can find something that will work for us.

We ate at Cheddar's Restaurant in Pinellas Park Wednesday night after checking in at the La Quinta. Mike had the Philly Cheesesteak and I had Chicken Fajita Quesadillas and Potato Skins for an appetizer. Then for breakfast after checking out of the motel and before going to the RV Show, we had breakfast at Bob Evans. Mike had a Belgian Waffle with sausage and I had Biscuits & Gravy.

We took Tinker with us to Tampa and he isn't very happy in motel rooms. One of us has to be with him when we're unloading and loading the car, or he barks. So when we go out to eat, Tinker goes with us and we leave the motor running and lock the car. Another reason to travel in a RV instead of staying in motel rooms.

The first part of this month I went to our monthly genealogical society's meeting and to a meeting on DNA. Mike and I went down to Carrabba's in Vero for lunch one day and had 1/2 a sandwich & soup, then we took our neighbor Barbara out to dinner one night to the Italian Cousin and we all ordered the Sausage & Meatball Rigatoni and we each always bring home half because the portions are so big.