Skepticism turned to disbelief Monday afternoon as Patricia Tuell watched the boxy, 26-foot motor home slide into the dirt driveway of her Ferrum home.

Never in her wildest dreams did she think that one click of the mouse would bring $250,000 worth of prizes right to her doorstep.

But as she gazed at the new motor home, her eyes wide and shining like marbles, she had one thing to say:

"They said it was going to be green. But it's brown."

Tuell is the winner of American Online's "Win What You Want Now," an instant-win sweepstakes she entered while online at the AOL Web site.

On Monday, a squad of representatives from the Northern Virginia-based Internet company arrived at her door and presented her with her prize package.

They included all the items needed to take a first-class cross-country road trip, such as a new Land Yacht Airstream with a retail value of $123,000, a $5,000 prepaid gas card and $7,500 in spending money.

For a moment, Tuell's jaw hung open in disbelief. Her 2-year-old granddaughter, Samantha, bounced on her toes, pointing to the motor home, giggling. "Big car, big car," Samantha said, pronouncing car like "cup."

Tuell quickly collected herself; the realization of freedom was sinking in. "I want to go out West. I want to see Mount Rushmore," she cried. "I want to go everywhere."

Her two daughters, Stephanie Menowsky and Angie Nelson, joined Tuell at her home on Swelling Road to admire the prizes. Other family members also were there.

The last 10 or so years have not been easy for Tuell, said Nelson, her older daughter. Her brother was killed in 1993 and her husband died a year and half later of cancer.

And last year, Tuell's mother passed away.

"For a long time, she kept waiting for the next bad thing to happen," Menowsky said, adding that before hearing of the prize, she rarely left the house and even turned down trips to the grocery store. "She wasn't really interested in anything."

"But ever since she got the call about the sweepstakes, she's been more lively," Nelson chimed in. "She's more eager, more adventurous. She always tells us, we can do weekend trips and start putting in for vacation time now."

Tuell said she plans to take a trip to Disney World with her older daughter and her three children, and then another trip with the other half of the family.

"We're going to have to go in shifts," Tuell beamed.

One by one, the family piled into the motor home only to find more prizes sitting on a narrow kitchen table -- a laptop computer, hand-held DVD camcorder and a portable printer -- and a flat-screen Sony television hanging on a wall behind the driver's seat.

Ten-year-old Joe Menowsky had already plopped himself in the front seat, and gripping the steering wheel, made "vroom, vroom" noises.

"When I get old enough to drive, I want to go cross-country," he said.

However, for now, Tuell had a different destination in mind -- one a little closer to home.

"Her first trip is going to be a cruise around town," Nelson said, adding that it would include pit stops at the bank, post office and finally Wal-Mart, where her daughter works.

"That way people can take a look at it on their breaks," Nelson said of the new motor home.