{"id":21993,"date":"2011-03-17T13:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:40:15","slug":"a-180-degree-about-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-180-degree-about-face\/","title":{"rendered":"A 180 Degree About Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent about three hours with a friend climbing in and out of a staggering number of fifth wheels and&#8230; I fell in love.<\/p>\n<p>I especially liked the bunk-model one that had two entrances, including one into the bunk area that had a door. Rip out the bunk, add a desk, and suddenly you have a separate office with an exterior access door&#8230; and there&#8217;s also a full bedroom. All within a foot print that is not much longer than Miranda.<\/p>\n<p>Even the worst fiver designs were better than the best motorhome. And those kitchens&#8230; I&#8217;m still not a fan of slides, but they seem to be more useful in a fifth wheel than in a motorhome.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, learning to hook up and back up a trailer made sense, especially when factoring in that a good used truck could come in at five to six thousand dollars and a recent-model high end 5er could be had for under forty grand. Compare that to the minimum $125,000 I&#8217;d have to spend to get a recent-model high end class C or B motorhome when it comes time to replace Miranda. And I&#8217;d only have one engine to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what the &#8220;dark side&#8221; looks like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent about three hours with a friend climbing in and out of a staggering number of fifth wheels and&#8230; I fell in love. I especially liked the bunk-model one that had two entrances, including one into the bunk area that had a door. Rip out the bunk, add a desk, and suddenly you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,635,1037,5,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugene","category-north-america","category-oregon","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}