San Antonio RV Show

Sunday morning two RVing friends and I met another RVing friend at the Joe Freeman Coliseum for the San Antonio RV Show.  We had coupons for $2 off the $10 admission price but found out at the last minute that anyone belonging to an RV club could get in for $7 on Sunday.  Sounding good right?  Just as we were coming up to the ticket kiosk, a man stopped us and said he had three free passes he hadn't used this week.  We shared amongst the 4 of us by each chipping in enough to come up with the $7 for one ticket.  And we payed it forward by giving our $2 off coupons to some people in line behind us.  Everyone was feeling real good about then.  If you've never tried "paying a favor forward", do it because it feels real nice.

We headed inside to look at all the RVs.  Sorry, no pictures this time.  One of us was seriously looking and the rest of us were just checking for new things to do in our current RVs.  Between us we currently have a crank up hardsided camper, a 5th wheel (me), a class c, and the final member of the group actually has 3 rigs right now--all 3 travel trailers (two restored and an Avion which she just got to restore).  As you can guess, she is very handy and does great work.  Anyway, we all know just a little bit about RVs.  It's always interesting when one or all of us look at RVs.  Most sales people start talking down and assuming the ladies know nothing.  It becomes especially irritating when the sales person knows little about his own product.  Smart sales people know there are a lot of women RVers out there and a lot of them don't travel with a man.

Anyway, we saw lots of RVs.  What we didn't see was RV products and supplies of any kind.  I think that was a really big mistake as not everyone goes to buy a new RV.  They want to see what is new that they can use with their existing RV.  That was very disappointing.  This year the RV show split off from the Boat and RV Show.  It was actually a show put on by 4 RV dealers.

Oh, well.  One of our group found an RV she was interested in so there was a bit of fact finding and negotiating.  You'll have to stay tuned to find out what happened next.