My wife Nancy and I purchased a brand new 2020 Fleetwood Flair 29M Class A motorhome. Before taking delivery we learned about the RV Driving School through the RV Escapees club and decided that we both could benefit from personal instruction in the art and science of driving our shiny new rig.

Arranging for the course was pretty straightforward thanks to your assistance in finding an available instructor close to home. Luckily for us our preferred dates were available.

We took delivery of our new motor coach on 9/13/2019 and drove from the dealer in San Marcos, CA up to Redlands, CA where we boondocked for our first night in the new rig. What a fantastic experience that was.

Our instructor, Rick Bremmer, met us at our boondock site and our lessons started promptly. Rick put us through our paces on 9/14/2019 and 9/15/2019 and immediately had us driving and backing up with confidence in the empty parking lot of a nearby VA Hospital. From there he introduced us to driving on city and residential streets, freeways, mountain and canyon roads, and some really narrow rural roads. Throughout it all Rick was thoughtful and encouraging and explained how driving an RV is different from driving a car. Rick was a fountain of useful information and tips and he helped us to back in to the RV park and oversaw our hooking up at the site we were going to overnight at on 9/14.

Rick met us early on 9/15 and the lessons continued with the emphasis on making my wife comfortable behind the wheel. He was a great encourager and she soon became a confident and capable pilot.

By the time our lessons were drawing to a close we felt we had made a new lifelong friend in Rick. We are looking forward to crossing paths with him at many campsites in the future.

If someone were to ask me if RV Driving School was worth it I would say “You betcha!”