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The Neighborhood Pusher ~
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Greetings LDers -- I'm a lurker who's been enjoying your posts for a good year now as with my wife I anticipated retirement (with her) from federal service late this summer after a combined total of just over 70 years' service.  We cashed out our house of 27 years in metro DC and in September moved to a gorgeous community in Williamsburg (www.govland.com).
An RV has always been part of our retirement plans (we've rented since the early '70s) and though I've long dreamed of piloting a diesel pusher, the RV.org turned me on to LDs and in fact I just missed getting a 30-footer over on the Eastern Shore last summer.
Meanwhile, we were warmly greeted when we dropped in on the LD gathering in Burlington VT last summer; my bride wound up wondering whether an LD was big enough given our grown kids and grandkids.
One of our new community and church friends here has a 35-foot '98 Tiffin/Allegro Bus pusher and a couple weeks ago he and his wife asked if we'd be interested in buying in as partners, since they rarely use it and learned we were thinking about RVs.  I've always thought that joint ownership made a lot of sense for RVs and boats (as it does for light airplanes, another passion of mine) and after due diligence, my wife and I have happily accepted their offer.
Obviously the Bus is a 12-ton roadcrusher and I am WELL aware of the fact that it ain't no L/D in any respect. On the other hand, the economics are fabulous ($33k buy-in, fixed expenses of $1k/year), and the roominess and slide-out and self-leveling and Freightliner/turbo- Cat with just 31k on it are mighty nice. Plus which, it's stored in our community storage lot half a mile from our house, where there's a two-year wait for a spot. Seems like an ideal way to get into RVing and if it works out, we may jointly upgrade in a few years.
In the meantime, I'll continue to lurk and even chime in from time to time. And if an Allegro Bus lets loose a blast of its twin air horns at you for no apparent reason, wave and know you've just seen some L/Ders at heart!

Travel safe -- Gary Allen Williamsburg, VA