Short trip to the Hershey RV Show

Wednesday Sept 12 2012
Gifford Pinchot State Park

 

Another post from the past for my records and your amusement.

Remember David is out of the hospital now (9/20/12).  This is from when he was not but I was too busy to blog about other than hospital matters.

Carrie and I spent the morning at the hospital with David and found out about the ticks.  They had put him on doxycycline and he was sleeping a lot. We left from there to go to the opening day of the Hershey RV Show.

 

It was perfect weather for being outside at an RV Show.

 

Self portrait from the back of the taxi.

The drive was an easy in and an easy out compared to going on the week-end.  We parked  in the GIGANTIC parking lot miles from the arena and immediately up came a Taxi to take us right to the entrance.  Lucky us!

 

 

There were what seemed like acres of RVs nose to tail all along the outside of the Arena.

We walked through not quite a third of the many many RVs outside.  Mostly the class A’s.  When we got to Winnebago we discovered that they have gone back into the trailer business and have put out a new small trailer called the Minnie.  Three sizes, 19’, 22’ and 27’.  Guess it’s not a Minnie Winnie since that was a Class C they used to make but that’s what I’d call it if I owned one.  This 19’ looks just my size doesn’t it?

 

 

One person could full time even in this little one  I believe.  This smallest one appears to be the competition for the increasingly popular 19’ R-Pods and 17’ Casitas. 

It’s a step ahead of both of those  in my opinion with a full size refrigerator and a shower stall rather than having to get the entire bathroom wet.  You’d have to see those others to know what I’m talking about.  The smallest one has a full queen bed, 3 burner stove, oven, double sink and dinette that makes into a bed.

In addition to white there are these other two colors – well you won’t lose your camper in the dark that’s for sure.  I forgot to take a picture of the lime green so this is off the brochure.

 

 

 

On this first day of the show, even with the beautiful weather, the inside was more crowded than the outside.  I can’t imagine it on the week-end.

We walked around inside upper circle and found that only Delaware and Virginia had state park booths so I got some information from both of them.  Even Pennsylvania did not have a booth.  I found that very odd at an RV show.

 

Like the outside, the inside was huge. There were venders on both sides of the upper circle outside and on the entire arena floor.   Everyone was walking around with a bright yellow Good Sam Camping World Bags and competing in the 11 button collection to spin for a prize.  One price was some number of seconds in the money booth where you could grab all the money you could.   We watched this a couple of times and it was pretty clear the the money was very small bills.  You had to catch it in the air.  You could not grab it off the floor.   Pretty funny watching guys do this.   But not for us.

 

 

 

Four hours was enough at one time of walking around and looking.  Carrie wanted to see the“cooking show”.  So we took a seat.

This was a great demonstration of wonderful looking pans. He demonstrated the use of a multi piece shredder type tool which I would love to have had as well as 4 of the different pans while cooking an entire meal in 20 minutes.  We sampled the food which was excellent.  The whole thing was very impressive.  Royal Prestige is the name of the cookware. I would love to own these surgical steel pans.  You need no oil and no water to cook in them.  Great for low fat Vegans.  Of course the pans are ON SALE for only $1000 for the smallest set.  Not in my budget this year for sure.  But they really did look like a great investment.

 

 

With that we ended our RV show stay, grabbed another taxi to the car, stopped by the hospital  and then finally back to Winnona for the night.