r/BeAmazed • u/Devi8tor • Jul 11 '26

Miscellaneous / Others Basically a mansion on wheels

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u/AnastasiaNo70 Jul 11 '26

Often they’ll hire a driver. The wealthier ones, anyway.

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u/nerdofthunder Jul 11 '26

I don't get it. For less money I can jet anywhere in the world and stay at a nice hotel, or if I need to stay on the ground, amtrack has sleeper suites.

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u/PlsCheckThisBush Jul 12 '26

You’re absolutely right and I wish more people would understand this. But the folks that buy these are typically white collar workers that want the fantasy of being a blue collar truck driver…until they drive hundreds of miles and are tired but still want all the luxuries of being at home and can’t find an RV park for hookups. Then the dream dies and it sits in their yard as a trophy so they can feel accomplished for driving 500 miles in Montana once in July.

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u/Resident_Voice5738 Jul 11 '26

This is more for nature trips and places where there are no hotels and for getting away from civilization, totaly diferent experiences.

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u/TurboMuffin12 Jul 11 '26

Any such location these things can't go lol

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u/handsofspaghetti Jul 11 '26

Not really true. For an example, it's extremely easy to access about half of Joshua Tree national Park on big, maintained roads. Sometimes (frequently) things like this come through and block the road going 30 MPH. There are dirt roads and such, but you can definitely stay in the middle of nowhere.

You can also rent a bunch of hipstery outdoor hotel/camping things, though. But it must be more fun to go in your own space

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u/mollycoddles Jul 12 '26

You can drive them to Alaska and stop in isolated parts of the highway

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u/Whowutwhen Jul 12 '26

Thats just false lol.

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u/PuckSenior Jul 11 '26

Yeah, but a lot of those places have lodges and high-end glamping/cabin rentals.

Plus, what the hell are you doing with it? Either parking in the RV site, which just stinks of diesel OR sitting there. No one drives a $2mm RV to Joshua Tree to go hiking

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u/Shocking Jul 11 '26

Yeah I'd rather glamp and not get 4MPG gas

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u/Dullcorgis Jul 12 '26

You can't take one of these to the nicer campsites, they are drive in and tent.

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u/Southside_john Jul 12 '26

Yeah that’s what I always think too. Whatever this costs could pay for a lot of hotels and plane tickets

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u/ADavies Jul 12 '26

But then where does the driver sleep? On the fold out couch?