Hi everyone who was super helpful with all the travel (and lots of commonsense) advice; we had to head back east for a wedding and are now in the last steps of packing up our 'old' home.
We postponed our move to mid-September (realtor wants us to finish a few projects first), and I have downloaded and have been working on a few of the routes heading back to the northeast - it's actually fun (in a denial kind of way) to figure out different routes, where to stay, what we could see/visit that will be a nice break from the road. We found an old map of the US in a local antique/junk store and have all the routes set up.
We know this isn't going to be easy, have limited our daily driving to 4-6 hours total, called every RV site to be sure that we can stay overnight with our pets, even made sure that the two of us can handle the roads. We even opted to have contingency plans in case the weather decides to jump in and we decide that being scared of traveling in pouring rain would be a day that we stay in an RV site with a large stack of DVD movies. At the minimum 7 days, at the max, whatever it takes as long as we get to where we're going safely.
We have decided that there is simply no way on Earth that we will get anywhere near I-95. So far, we might tackle Houston (we've driven there several times through the years to know the least-aggravating way to get through the city), probably exit through Texarkana, and probably go through AR, KY, TN, OH, a pinch of PA, then figure out how to go east through NY to VT then fling ourselves into northern NH just before the leaves change (then 3 feet of snow, probably in the same week).
Everyone here has been really helpful with their advice, and we're also trying to figure out other (probably more scenic, less-traffic-jamming) ways, plus going through all the recommended websites.
This is scary and exciting and we know we are way over our head but know that as long as we try to prepare but leave a bit of wiggle room, this may be the first of many RV trips.
