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Roy said:
They always look like they are having FUN.

This reminds me of one of the funniest (and proudest) times I had when I was driving our 37 foot MH through Culiacan, Mexico, a city of about 600,000 folks in 1995.  I somehow managed to stumble upon rush-hour.  I was driving and my hubby was sleeping (and missed it all!).  As the traffic was progressing so slowly several people on the sidewalk noticed I was driving and stared and pointed.  I tried to look nonchalant, don't think I succeeded too well.  The best though was when a carload of college age girls passed on my left and waved and cheered.  Lots of "way to go" signals.  Should have awakened the hubby but knew he'd panic when he saw all the traffic I'd driven into.    It really felt good though.


On a serious note though it really is important that you at least feel comfortable behind the wheel in case you have an emergency.  I really don't want to end up having to ask someone to move our motorhome because I'm too scared to drive it.  It helps though that I enjoy driving most vehicles. 
 
I'd love it if my wife would do a little driving once in a while to give me a break on a long haul. I guess listening to her grind gears wouldn't give me much rest. Good thing I love driving this rig. I'm going to have to give her a few lessons in case something were to keep me from being able to get the rig home. Probably start with it unhitched!
 
We've had our MH for almost 7 years.  What my hubby said to the salesman back then is she can drive it.  It took three years of white knuckles to being able to drive our 34' as my hubby took me through the coal mining towns of PA.  That is how I learned drivingi this MH.  Oh how is saw those roads getting more narrow....people running from their vehicles (that's the way I saw it) when they saw this monster coming towards their vehicles....scary back then..but a reality moment of how to drive an MH on a roadway that was getting smaller and smalller with each block you go.  That was my driving lessons.  To this day my husband complains that I can't park his GMC Envoy straight but I am able to park the MH right on in any parkiing lot.
Even as of this past weekend a camp owner say "he hasn't seen a woman drive a motorhome. My husband has only driven it for 200 miles and would rather be a co-pilot.  I have driven 27,000 miles and love every minute of it, I am looking foward to purchasiing a 40' motorhome.  I am sure there are many more ladies that can drive a motorhome with no problems.
 
The coal mining towns of PA reminds me of a comment made to us several years ago.  When we visited my mother near Pittsburgh we had always stayed at her apartment parking lot but they were having serious structural problems with the garage underneath the parking lot so we were forced to find an RV park.  The closest one is near Washington PA and we followed the directions in our GPS - not the campground directory - through this little mining town.  At one of the last turns I'm looking at the road and commenting to Jerry that I don't think we belong there.  It was a short but steep descent on a narrow one-way road - it reminded me of the hill our driving instructor took us on when I was 16.  Anyway, we made it to the campground.  When we walked in the office the man said to me "Did you just drive that huge motorhome in here from X?"  I said yes and he and another man just looked at us like we were crazy and the one said, "I don't even drive my truck down that road much less a motorhome.  You've got more nerve than me."  Wow!  It made me feel good that I had impressed a couple of men!  ;)  He told us there's an easier way in, but we always took the hard route.

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