Lucky New Owners of a 2016 24TK in Colorado!

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July 23, 2022, 09:51:39 pm

Hi, Everyone,

It’s a month after we picked up our 2016 24TK with 14,000 miles, and I’m still doing a happy dance while grinning ear to ear.   How did I get so Lucky? 😊

We’d been looking for about a year when a 24TK owner contacted me from my WTB post on this forum. After a bit of a wait while she decided whether she really wanted to sell, it was a real pleasure to purchase a LD in excellent condition from an honorable, friendly and meticulous owner.   The only shadow on our purchase process was the factory closing about a week after we drove it home.   ☹

I will be forever grateful to her; not only because she contacted me before posting any ads (she thought we’d take good care of her LD), but also for spending a couple of days with me going over the basic maintenance of each system and showing me how to use all the items in each of her ‘kits’. There was a water kit with Teflon tape, a socket of the correct size and angle for removing the HWH plug, a syringe to get the last bit of water out of the HWH, a hose adaptor ‘nozzle’ to spray the HWH clean after the vinegar water soak to dissolve mineralization, a blowout adaptor, a pressure reducer, water filter, hoses, etc.   And there were other kits, too – all neatly organized and labeled. There was an electrical kit, and EMS, a box of fuses, a box for organizing the tire minder sensors when removing them for long storage, horse mats for the tires, an air compressor, etc. Of course, there was the original factory manual, plus a binder with sleeves containing the manuals for each appliance, and another binder with entries for maintenance, plus a mileage log. Whew! I would wish for every potential LD buyer to find such an organized, knowledgeable and meticulous seller!

A little bit about us - My husband (Eric) and I live in Boulder Colorado.   Our son is all grown up and in graduate school (where does that time go?), so we are looking towards retirement.   I will be retiring from private practice as a therapist this year, and Eric will keep working a little while longer. He is a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of a couple of small software companies.

We love hiking, backpacking and camping, and I’m a volunteer naturalist with Boulder County. We have never owned an RV, but have taken 5 longer trips in rental RVs.   We have been so dismayed by the quality of the construction of our rental RVs that we looked for other options and found Lazy Daze. We feel so fortunate to have found such a beautifully constructed RV that we’ve named him/her “Lucky” (short for “Lucky Days the Lazy Daze”).

Last weekend we took our first camping trip to Grand Lake, Colorado.   The shortest way to get there from Boulder is to take Trail Ridge Road over the Continental Divide through Rocky Mountain National Park.   Trail Ridge Road is the highest paved road in North America, and peaks at an elevation of 12,183 feet. It is only open during the summer before it gets snowed in the rest of the year (note that the snow pole is higher than our LD in the first picture).   We took that route with some trepidation, wondering if Lucky would have any difficulty with the grade or elevation. I’m happy to report that Lucky dove up that road with ease and felt much more stable and secure to drive than any of our previous rental RVs.   The attached pictures were taken along Trail Ridge Road.

We hope to make it out to a couple of LD caravans in California in the next year or two so that we can meet some of you in person.   Meanwhile, if you are traveling anywhere near Boulder, Colorado, don’t hesitate to reach out.