While driving around the Apache Junction area, we found a Super Wal-Mart that had a nice section for motor home parking. On Friday afternoon, we moved the motor home to it, and stay until Sunday morning when it was time to move to the rally area. Here are a couple of shots of the Wal-Mart lot for RV’s.
After moving the motor home, I found a place to get some ‘free’ WIFI, and we updated our blog for Thursday. We also did some research for Saturday……… we found some RV dealers that were having shows on their lots on Saturday, and we got information on the Old Town area in Scottsdale, AZ. Then we went looking for another Trader Joe’s and bought some frozen shrimp-fried rice and egg rolls for dinner. Buy the time we got back to the MH, it was time to eat.
We got up Saturday and went looking at new motor homes. The local Newmar dealer did not have much, except for a 2005 Dutch Star that he would sell for $205,000. That’s a good price for a new Dutch Star, but it has been sitting for over two years, and I’ll bet a lot of stuff will give the buyer problems shortly down the road. We also looked at a 2006 Holiday Rambler Sceptor that had been marked down from $287,000 to $220,000. The salesman then told me he would give me $30,000 for mine, and that there was still room to bargain. We left, telling him we would think about it. It was a 40-footer with a 400hp Cummins in it. It is a good thing that we left, because about a mile down the road, I realized that there had to be reason that it was still on lot and they wanted to cut the price so much! We were close to walking into the manager’s office to see if we could deal!!!
After that excitement, the rest of the day seemed slower! We went to the tourist area in Scottsdale, and then drove around the Mesa area. In the first picture below, Patsy is standing by a metal palm tree, and the fountain in the last two pictures was listed in the Scottsdale brochure as "our famous Bob Parks Horse Fountain, one of the most photographed spots in Arizona":
We finished off the day with another dinner in the MH, after getting supplies for next week at the rally.
Tomorrow morning, we head to the “Gypsy Journal Rally” in Casa Grande, AZ….. about 40 miles south of here. It goes from Monday to Friday, and they are offering the rally, and camping with water and electric for $99. We then plan to start back to Texas via Odessa to visit Carol and Ron as well as Dallas to attend the RV Super Show.
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I wouldn't recokmend this dealership of my life depended one it, they have no follow thru and certain employees are too cozy and too much into their money their price fluxuates and their priceing on parts is ridiculoux
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