The Perfect Family Trip: West Coast Edition
We're back! If anyone has followed our other "Perfect Family Trip" installments, you will know that although we don't have years of full timing under our belts, we have done 5 other major summer road...
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Good point on the dry camping. I will put a campground in the middle of the run out west.
Here is one suggestion: Add a 2 night stop at Santa Fe, NM. If you have never been there it will be a good place after three days of driving and dry camping. I'd suggest an RV park such as Santa Fe Skies.
You'd have to adjust the overnight after that (changing Barstow) but you have a 200+ day after that anyway.
I think you said you'd been to the Black Hills, but I'd stay out at Custer rather than in Rapid City, and make that a 2 night instead of the Badlands--but you may have reason to do otherwise.
It is a shame you will miss Crater Lake, but no way will it fit with the coastal part of your trip.
We enjoyed staying at Tunnel Mountain Trailer Court (full hookups) in Banff. Of course, you'd have to make reservations long in advance.
I've admired your previous trips with your sons. This might not be exactly the trip I would take,(in 21 years of fifth-wheel travel I've never stayed overnight in a Walmart or a Cracker Barrel,) but I see no reason you could not do it. So I say: go for it!
