Le Creme de le Creme

SuperShow Shows Us NUTTIN'

We awoke at 7:00 AM this morning to get down the the Tampa RV Supershow being put on by the Florida RV Trade Association (FRVTA).  It is one of the largest RV shows in the United States.  It has EVERY motorhome, tow trailer and 5th wheel dealer in attendance as well as numerous dealerships from across Florida.  There are literally THOUSANDS of RVs of every size, shape, class and price point available for your inspection and perusal (except the Prevosts - they are AT the show but those are "too good" to allow the "rabble" in.  You have to set appointments to tour them.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if at the time of setting up your appointment you had to agree to a credit check and asset verification before it is granted) and touring.  On top of all of that there are HUNDREDS of vendors hawking every kind of RV related item imaginable (EXCEPT the ONE THING for which I was actually searching).

We once again went through about 14 different high end RVs.  What did we conclude:

1) Our Tiffin 45LP has the BEST FLOORPLAN available on the market

2) Our Tiffin 45LP has the BEST STORAGE of any RV that is over 40 ft when you add both INTERIOR and BASEMENT storage

3) Our Tiffin 45LP is the "PRETTIEST" of all the RVs we saw - Our Custom Color Choice blows the competition away!

It's a wonderful thing to (once again) have your decision validated.

An interesting point - The top 5 selling RVs are 1)Tiffin 2) Winnebago 3) Fleetwood 4) Thor 5) Newmar

What Irene and I find interesting about this is if you go on iRV2 and read the threads you would SWEAR that the Entegra Coach Line (Aspire, Anthem, Cornerstone) are the B-E-S-T coaches EVER made.  Yet they don't even crack the top 5.  Irene and I have thought for over 2 years that Entegra has a strategic plan to swamp RV owner sites with "Positive PooP" write-ups by people actually from Entegra who are doing nothing more than being shills for their products in hopes of getting traction in the marketplace.  Kind of like the statement that: "If you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough it becomes the truth" - Joseph Geobbles, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda

The one item I was hoping to find there was tire shades which keep the UV light from aging your tire sidewalls and making them age, weaken and crack more quickly - NOPE!

Coming home we took a tour of the southwest portion of Marion County.  We learned that Marion County, Florida is called the "Horse Capitol of the World."  Triple Crown winner Affirmed is from a Marion County farm.  Today, Marion County is one of the major thoroughbred centers of the world. It has more than 1,200 horse farms, including about 900 thoroughbred farms, totaling some 77,000 acres (310 km²). Ocala is well known as a "horse capital of the world."

The western portion of the county is much drier than the eastern portion.  I've shared before how with the Oklawha River, the Lakes and the Cross Florida Barge Canal the eastern portion of county is really boggy.  The western portion has more elevation so it's significantly drier.  That's good because you can't have horses standing in water.  They get hoof fungus and CHECKMATE!

Another interesting tidbit.  We got off I-75 and I wanted to see "Ross Prairie State Forest."  I was expecting something like the "Tallgrass Prairie National Reserve" that Irene and I went to in Kansas. NOPE!  Their prairie had trees - lots and lots and lots of trees.  So now I'm going to look up the definition of "Prairie:"

Free Online Dictionary:

prai·rie  (prâr)

n.

An extensive area of flat or rolling, predominantly treeless grassland, especially the large tract or plain of central North America.

Free Miraim-Webster Dictionary

prai·rie

 noun, often attributive \ˈprer-ē\

: a large, mostly flat area of land in North America that has few trees and is covered in grasses

Full Definition of PRAIRIE

1

:  land in or predominantly in grass

2

:  a tract of grassland: as

Online Cambridge Dictionary

prairie

  /ˈpreər·i/ n

› a wide area of flat land, covered with grass, esp. a large area in central North America that was originally covered by grass and is now mainly farming land

YEP!  I'm correct.  I don't know WHERE these people get off calling a "Forest" a "Prairie."

If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough it will become the truth???