Fort Worth, Texas – Wednesday

Today, we wanted to go back to Vogt’s RV in Fort Worth and look again at the diesel pushers…… Kountry Star by Newmar and Phaeton by Tiffin. We are leaning heavily toward diesel. The Newmar is a 400hp Cummins engine on a Spartan chassis, which seems to be the more desired by RV’ers, and the Tiffin has a Cat engine on a Freightliner chassis. The latter has a rear radiator, and that is a big negative to me because of engine access and filthy air being sucked in from the rear.

After looking both over, we decided to go to the Stockyards area. We got there just in time for the cattle drive, so we took some pictures of “COWS” for Matthew, and we also noted that they had a plaque in the sidewalk to honor me……… at least it had my name on it!!!
Tonight, we plan to eat at an “Outback Steakhouse”, and then go back to the motor home to work on some comparison spreadsheets and study our brochures & other information to get ready for the RV show tomorrow. Skip and Pat Wade from Mexia are meeting us up here to go to the show. We will go out for lunch first. We ‘motorhomed’ with them and their small kids in 1980 while we lived in Benton, Arkansas……… so they are really old folks!!