Chinook Destiny - Bio part 9

The young man who guided MnJ around the various RVs at the Fretz open House turned out to be Chinook's eastern Sales representative. He came up to them as they were about to leave and said that if this deal didn't work out, maybe he could find them another. They exchanged email addresses and they came back home.

Well, as we know, the deal did fall through so Mark emailed John and got a response almost immediately. There was a 2003 Chinook Destiny on the lot at Marty's USRV in Massachusetts. I was a two model year old dealer demo so he thought I could be had at a very good price. Mark emailed Charlie, the salesman up there, and discussions began. When it was all over I was to get new owners and a new home. And I could finally begin to function up to my potential.

As it turned out Marty's USRV did give a very good discount and agreed to a trade-in price such that Concourse Q's depreciate was $0 over the three years MnJ owned him. Now there was a motor home that held its value!

The next weekend, after transferring everything from Concourse Q - including the luggage pod from the roof - to me, I became a home. John, Chinook's eastern rep, happened to be there and was very helpful getting us squared away. He was even able to order a new tow bar and owner's manual that had been lost sometime during my demo phase. We spent our first night together in Marty's parking lot.

I'd like to say here that Concourse Q found a new home almost immediately. He was being taken up to New Hampshire to a lady who'd been looking for a second hand Chinook for a while. She will be happy with him.

I wish I could say that we lived happily ever after but the truth is we've had a sometimes rock relationship. Oh, MnJ liked the larger bathroom and the extra storage but I sometimes got carried away with my pranks - probably due to youth and pent up energy. There were times, maybe not entirely in the past, when Mark wished they'd stayed with Concourse Q. And maybe I can't blame him. Looking back I guess his pranks were fewer and less disruptive but we're beginning to work things out. We all look forward to many more years together.