alonalbert wrote:
Hi all
I'm a complete newbie. Never been in a RV before. I'm going on a 30 day round the US trip with my family. We've already secured rental for 2 Class A units but I need help with planning the trip.
I have no idea how to approach this problem. General rout is clockwise circle start at San Francisco around July this year.
Apart for a handful of locations that I definitely want to visit, I'm pretty open to anything:
* Yellowstone
* Mt Rushmore
* Boston Area
* New York
* New Orleans
* Utah Canyonlands
* Las Vegas
* Death Valley
I realize there's a whole lot of empty space between these places which I'm trying to fill out :) For the most part, I don't even know what there is to see most of the way.
Any advice how to go about planning this kind of trip? I signed up with Good Sam and intend to use their online trip planner.
Thanks.
IMO too ambitious and not enough time. We did a similar trip back in 2004 and hit about 1/2 of what you are planning and it took us close to 60days. We do about 1 or 2 roadtrips of around 30 to 45 days twice year and have found several things are almost non negotiable if you want to have a successful trip.
1. Limit your daily travel to around 300 to 400 miles and plan a down day every 2 to 3 days of continuous travel.
2. Plan out what you want to do at each extended stay location and include a "free day" for about every 3 to 4 days and don't sightsee on the first or last day of a stop over. Also try and limit your time each day sightseeing to around 1/2 of the day. We actually like to average an equal number of free days to planned days since that allows us to "ADD" sidetrips that we discover or spend longer doing one activity once we get to that destination.
You really have to be careful in planning these longer "ROAD TRIPS" since you can really exhaust yourself between continually being on the road, trying to squeeze in 10lbs of sights into that 5lb bag, and allowing sufficient "re group" time. IMO this is something some folks that are more or less "weekenders" don't realize and sort of like you are IMO way to ambitious in their scheduling.
Larry
