Fall-Break-Motorhome-Shopping Trip

We decided that our university fall break would be a great time to make a road trip to shop for a motorhome.  So we headed towards Alabama, where they manufacture Tiffin motorhomes.  We had targeted several well-respected dealers, and three different privately owned motorhomes that we wanted to see in person on this trip.  We were also hoping to see some pretty fall foliage, but most of the trees were still green.

We scheduled our trip around being in Red Bay, Alabama, for a Tiffin factory tour.  It was really interesting to watch the cabinet shop, the bare chassis, the finished slide outs before they were attached to the frames, and the unpainted gray motorhomes.



After reading a request for pictures on the Tiffin Forum from a couple who had ordered a 2015 37AP Allegro Bus, we searched it out.  The motorhome was at station 18, almost completed, and we took over 20 pictures to email to them.




















 The good news is the road trip was ultimately successful!  After days of very serious shopping, we decided to buy a used 2013 Tiffin Allegro Red 33AA at Davis Motorhomes in Memphis, Tennessee.  We can recommend them as a very fair and easy to work with dealership.  Mark drove like a seasoned pro on the test drive.  We actually made the deal over the phone between Red Bay and Memphis.  The bad news is that they couldn't get it ready for us this weekend, so we will have to come back to Memphis to drive it home. There will be more details later, but here's a sneak peek of our new home.