Our Motorhome

Interior of the motorhome

We have just made our first foreign investment, our new-to-us motorhome.  We came up north today to Sydney RV Centre where we purchased a Mazda “Leisure Seeker” motorhome.  It was built in 2001, but only has 26000 km on it.  It’s built on a truck chassis and has a 4.6 L diesel motor with manual transmission.  Because of the size of the motor it is well powered, and climbs the hills where we test drove it very well.  It will take a while to get used to shifting with the left hand, another thing to learn to do on a right hand drive vehicle, but I didn’t find it too confusing during the test drive.

We spent a bit more on it than we had planned, but it is very nice and clean, and has a layout that we really like.  Anyone that would like to see the details of the vehicle can do so here http://sydneyrvcentre.com.au/slideshow.html?id=494 (at least for a while, though I suppose that this link will someday disappear).

We are now in a small cabin in the Sydney Lakeside Holiday Park where we will be for the next few days.  We should be able to pick up our RV on Tuesday morning, and then the company will host us here for a couple of days so that we can check out the motorhome and make sure everything functions up to spec.  Since there is very good bus coverage from here to Sydney we will be doubtless be visiting Sydney over the next few days.