Member Spotlight
 Bob and Ann Rowland
Livingston, Texas, address
"Home is where we park it."
FMCA membership
number:
F206656. We joined FMCA in 1996.
Our current
motorhome is: a 1999 34-foot
Fleetwood Flair
Other motorhomes
that we have owned:
A 1998 Travelmaster and a Fleetwood Bounder
We decided to buy a
motorhome because:
Health reasons — the bathroom is available at all times
Current or former
occupation:
We're both retired. Bob worked for the Minnesota Department of
Transportation for 30 years. I (Ann) was a speech pathologist and an
administrator in services for people with developmental
disabilities.
Children,
grandchildren:
We have two children, Dan and Alice, and one granddaughter,
Isabelle.
The best thing
about motorhoming is:
You always have your own bed and kitchen, etc.
We travel in the motorhome approximately:
Seven months per year
When we're not
motorhoming, we're:
Living in a mobile home (five months per year) in Rio Grande Valley,
Texas
Our all-time
favorite motorhome trip was:
A 44-day trip with Reli Custom RV Tours to New Zealand and
Australia using rented motorhomes
Our favorite motorhoming
destination is:
Upper Michigan
One of our interesting motorhoming memories is:
Being in Williamsburg, Va., on Sept. 11, 2001
(we had planned to go to the Pentagon that day and changed our
minds),
and having jet fuel drain on us while at an RV park
Our “dream” motorhome trip would be:
Europe
Our worst motorhoming experience was:
Having to have our motorhome repaired at the factory in Elkhart,
Ind., and having to stay three weeks in a motel
If we could change one thing about our motorhome, it would be:
More reliability and availability of products and repairs,
particularly chassis related
The best alteration or addition that we’ve made to
our motorhome is:
Adding lots of shelves
A motorhoming tip that we’d like to share with other
motorhomers is:
If the carbon monoxide sensor starts to go off for no apparent
reason, check the converter and the batteries.
Our favorite way to exercise is:
Walking
Favorite book: Too many
Favorite restaurant:
Anything local
Favorite store: "Dollar" stores
Favorite campground: Lowry Grove in St.
Anthony Village, Minn.
When motorhomers visit our state or hometown, they
should be sure to see:
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Also,
the Admiral Nimitz Museum — the National
Museum of the Pacific War — in Fredericksburg,
Texas.
The
item that is always in our motorhome's refrigerator while we're
traveling is:
Mustard
Our
advice to new motorhomers is: Do your homework.
Behind our motorhome, we tow: A 1997
Ford Escort using a tow bar
Our favorite activity to do inside the motorhome is:
Read
Other comments:
We love to motorhome travel, but some things are challenging
— medical sources,
haircuts, newspapers.
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