New Horizons RV Corporation Majestic 5th Wheel Trailer Delivery

Our appointed date and time to pick up our dream home, a 2013 New Horizons Majestic 5th Wheel Trailer Model 102-F36RLTSS, was Wednesday, March 27, 2012 at 10:00 AM.  A date and time very important to us; we have been dreaming, researching and planning for over three years on this project.  The ride was a wild one and I will attempt to summarize it here.

We started the 1400 mile journey staring down the weather barrel of the March 23, 2013 snow storm “Victor” shooting straight at our intended    I-70 path.  After tense monitoring of the approaching storm we decided to leave a couple days early on Saturday 3/23, take the southern    I-64 route and beat the storm to the punch and get as far as we could.  We met the storm with freezing rain and sleet in Mt Vernon, IL.

We had traveled over 900 miles in the new F-450 and had finally become adjusted to the wider truck body, but were happy to get off the highway in the degrading weather conditions.  The morning was cold, but the fury of the storm was passed to our east and our final leg west would be smoother sailing. 

We arrived in Junction City, KS Sunday night covered in road salt, bone tired but as excited as ever.  The next couple of days we cleaned up our truck, Pepe LaPue at the local car wash and generally prepared for the big day on Wednesday.

We arrived Wednesday and started the orientation by 9:00 AM.  We took less than an hour lunch break then resumed the orientation until quitting time around 4:00 PM.  With all of the new information coming at us, we were exhausted by the end of the day.  We spent Thursday and Friday continuing to try and learn the systems, and find any latent defects.  We made progress in learning the systems slowly but surely (and continue to learn at this time and I don't think it is close to over!)  We also found a few defects each of which New Horizons addressed and resolved. 

We were ready to leave the New Horizons factory and ride out to a local state park, but we found out the generator wasn't starting and now it was closing in on Easter weekend.  Try as they did, New Horizons was unable to get generator service that weekend, so we spent a quiet Easter on the New Horizons lot.  Monday the generator techs were on site and had us up and running in no time.  We also discovered a few more defect items and New Horizons fixed those too.

By noon we were off and headed for west St. Louis, MO.  We made it there fine and parked in a Lowe's where we bought a ladder for the RV and a few other essentials.  We also fired up the microwave to cook a dinner, but the inverter batteries died within 60 seconds and our food wasn't cooked.  So we thought, we will use the generator, and we did.  But the inverter started convulsing and we shut the generator down immediately.  Bewildered, we put our dinners back in the freezer, ate some cheese and crackers and went to bed exhausted.

The next day we pushed our way to Lexington, KY.  We got to see our family there and then rolled out of town and made Mt. Sterling, KY and a WalMart for the night.  In the morning we rolled out and pushed to Hancock, MD just west of Hagerstown.  This was our first night to actually hook up in a campground.  We rose early, stopped in Seaford, DE to pick up our Lazy-boy recliners then pushed into Trails End... finally home!  It was an incredibly exciting journey, both ways coming and going.  We made it safely without much trouble and are elated to be finally in our RV full-time.