davidaf-KEY
Senior Member
Finally closed escrow on our home base lot and dropped the 5er off last weekend. Went back yesterday for an overnight. I'd give the night a B-, though little fault of the Montana. We've been RVs for sometime and usually we know what we are doing therefor I have higher expectations for myself than most and grade accordingly.
The day started off good. We arrive and everything was working great. Spent the first hour swapping out all the bulbs with LEDs while the wife ran to town with our adult daughter, who was also staying with us. Hooked up the sewer and did a quick leak test, really like the swing out thing. No more slinky yeah! I will miss the "master" knife that I usually install before installing the hose to protect from the leftover water leaking down the tube. Finished unpacking all the goodies we brought to stock up the unit. I miss some of the storage that my Fleetwood has. They stuck a door or cubby any place they could. Keystone could learn a bit from Fleetwood but Keystone still makes trailers so i guess the same could be said for Fleetwood.
Girls finally made it back with some grub to nuke since we knew we'd be short on time and kitchen goodies. Silly microwave didn't have the turning plate in it. It was noted on the walk through but was never fixed. We cooked w/o and then realized we didn't have any utensils. Woops, town and Wal-Mart are 20miles away guess we'll share the one plastic fork.
Once dinner was finished we sat back to watch some TV but then, the cable went out. No problem i'll break out the new VuQube for Dish network. Uh, something is wrong, it's empty. They sent me the display unit. Oh well TV came back on shortly. CW swapped it out today w/o issue.
11PM, time to pull out the sleeper for the kid. "4 D Batteries, what the.." guess she'll sleep on the couch. New problem, we forgot sheets, blankets and pillows. Good thing it's a warm night. Now the real fun. Ring Ring, work calls at 11pm. The world is falling apart! Spent the next 3 hours sitting on the bed working. Would have been nice to try out the new desk but figure i'd let the kid sleep. Finally got to sleep around 3am.
All and all the trip was okay. Guess everybody is a novice when it comes to a new unit. The Montana did well, i'd give it a strong B for the cardboard mattress and missing Microwave turning thing, but we got a C for our efforts (the work thing didn't help but can't fault anyone but me for my choice of careers). Guess we just got used to everything being in the unit. BTW, the sleep number mattress should be here this week. The stock mattress is probably the worst mattress i've slept on in my adult life.
Looking forward to next weekend when the washer and dryer are installed then it's another week until we go full time. I'll certainly have the kinks worked out by then.
dave
The day started off good. We arrive and everything was working great. Spent the first hour swapping out all the bulbs with LEDs while the wife ran to town with our adult daughter, who was also staying with us. Hooked up the sewer and did a quick leak test, really like the swing out thing. No more slinky yeah! I will miss the "master" knife that I usually install before installing the hose to protect from the leftover water leaking down the tube. Finished unpacking all the goodies we brought to stock up the unit. I miss some of the storage that my Fleetwood has. They stuck a door or cubby any place they could. Keystone could learn a bit from Fleetwood but Keystone still makes trailers so i guess the same could be said for Fleetwood.
Girls finally made it back with some grub to nuke since we knew we'd be short on time and kitchen goodies. Silly microwave didn't have the turning plate in it. It was noted on the walk through but was never fixed. We cooked w/o and then realized we didn't have any utensils. Woops, town and Wal-Mart are 20miles away guess we'll share the one plastic fork.
Once dinner was finished we sat back to watch some TV but then, the cable went out. No problem i'll break out the new VuQube for Dish network. Uh, something is wrong, it's empty. They sent me the display unit. Oh well TV came back on shortly. CW swapped it out today w/o issue.
11PM, time to pull out the sleeper for the kid. "4 D Batteries, what the.." guess she'll sleep on the couch. New problem, we forgot sheets, blankets and pillows. Good thing it's a warm night. Now the real fun. Ring Ring, work calls at 11pm. The world is falling apart! Spent the next 3 hours sitting on the bed working. Would have been nice to try out the new desk but figure i'd let the kid sleep. Finally got to sleep around 3am.
All and all the trip was okay. Guess everybody is a novice when it comes to a new unit. The Montana did well, i'd give it a strong B for the cardboard mattress and missing Microwave turning thing, but we got a C for our efforts (the work thing didn't help but can't fault anyone but me for my choice of careers). Guess we just got used to everything being in the unit. BTW, the sleep number mattress should be here this week. The stock mattress is probably the worst mattress i've slept on in my adult life.
Looking forward to next weekend when the washer and dryer are installed then it's another week until we go full time. I'll certainly have the kinks worked out by then.
dave
