Wait, that's not a Sprinter!
For a NON-Sprinter, I did have quite the trip. I had a friend meet at my place, we took BART to SFO and flew to St. Louis, where we were met by the RV Seller's minion. We drove for like 2 hours and got to the place, only to discover that the RV was in MUCH worse shape than the pictures revealed. After MUCH argument about dropping the cost by $10,000 to cover the repairs we gave up and begged for a ride BACK to the airport where we did NOT have a return flight and spent the day trying to get back home the next day.
Then the RV appeared back on eBay, this time I won it AGAIN only at the $10,000 less price, but the guy wouldn't sell it to me, this happened two times more in the course of almost two months. When I did win and the guy relented to sell to me at that price, I also won an electric car for my wife in the same part of the world. I wanted to pick them up together but feared the guy would screw me again so I had it shipped. Arrived w/i the week for $500, the RV took another month for it to be ready to collect as I was having him fix things I had seen when I first "visited" (cracked windshield, new toilet, new batteries and tires)
I then reproduced my original trip out, alone this time, my friend didn't have more time off work. Got there and after more argument, he fixed the moving entry floor and a baggage door that would not close and I was on my way. I drove thru St. Louis, Kansas City(s), Denver, and a few hours after Laramie I blew a hose. To be fair the engine was 10 years old with 6,000 miles on it. I was putting another 50% on the ODO with this one trip. For only $900 they towed me back to Rawlins, WY, but the shop was closed.
The next day (good thing I was in an RV) when they opened they told me the parts were a week out, so I booked a train that was oddly walking distance and traveled back home to go to work. A couple of weeks later it was ready and I took another train ride out, the biggest adventure of the trip was trying to wind down the Sonora Pass near my cabin in the Sierras, in a 40-foot motorhome with smoking brakes, even with the engine brake going full blast, just no place to stop on that ride. Quite the adventure!
I have since taken that pass in my Volvo and my Sprinter and they also used a lot of brakes. The Sprinter started the shuttering of warping rotors going down the mountain. My new Tesla is the first vehicle that I felt secure going down those steep mountain passes. Barely uses the brakes.
-Randy