Maiden Voyage with Our Voyage

 

Spring and summer have flown by. We sold our 2016 Winnebago Tour motorhome in early-March to La Mesa RV. All along, we had plans to continue RVing. There are lots of nice state and county parks throughout Florida that we wanted to go back to and visit some new ones too.

We were researching getting a 25-30-foot-long bumper-tow travel trailer. We learned that most of those trailers weighed six to 10,000 pounds. Our 2015 Ford F-150 pickup was only rated to pull 5,000 pounds. In early-April, we traded the 2015 for a 2021 Ford F-150 with the max. tow package that could tow up to 13,000 pounds.

We continued our on-line research and narrowed our search down to about 6-8 travel trailers, but hadn’t actually seen any in-person yet. We decided to take a trip to the Tampa Bay Summer RV Show in early-June. On the way to Tampa, we stopped at a dealer outside of Orlando to take a look at one of the trailers we were interested in. It turned out that they had already sold that trailer, but we could order one for delivery in summer 2022. RV sales are high as families across the country were buying RVs to go on vacation. The RV manufacturers are now only making a couple of their most popular floor plans.

We saw lots of travel trailers at the RV show, but narrowed it down to the Winnebago Voyage. Lazy Days RV of Tampa sold the Voyage, but didn’t have the specific floor plan we were interested in. The Villages Lazy Days RV dealer did have the model we were interested in, and it was much closer for us to drive to. We purchased a 2021 Voyage 2831RB (rear bath) in mid-June. We absolutely love it. We’re thinking about naming it “Hurricane Evacuation Shelter” or “Key West Express”.          

We’re on our maiden voyage with our Voyage to San Antonio to visit Julie’s mom in assisted living. We haven’t seen her in person since last October due to Covid restrictions. We’re really looking forward to seeing her.

Stay safe out there!

Steve & Julie Cornelius