Tips for first time long haul road trip.
Hello fellow RV'ers. Mi wife and I are going to be embarking on our first long haul road trip with our two sons. (13 and 8). I hope this is the first in a long line of annual family vacations. :) ...
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Agree with the others that 5-600 miles/day waaay too much. 350 is my max now, 300 is better. It's a vacation not a quest.
Also STRONGLY urge you to find a way around Chattanooga. We live in North Alabama and Chattanooga is the obvious path to the Smokeys, but last 5 times we have made that trip the interstate has been at a standstill from South Pittsburg all the way to Moccasin Bend. We now go north to Dunlap, TN, and around to Cleveland, TN - 40 miles and 50 minutes out of the way but WELL WORTH IT.
Atlanta interstates are crowded at 2 in the morning for goodness sakes. I would never pull a trailer thru there (but to each his own).
You might consider getting on I-65 at Nashville and taking it all the way south to Montgomery and then a little bit of non-interstate east over to I-75. I don't think this would be much longer, but you avoid two terrible interstate systems, and you avoid most of the hills.
For what it's worth.
Also STRONGLY urge you to find a way around Chattanooga. We live in North Alabama and Chattanooga is the obvious path to the Smokeys, but last 5 times we have made that trip the interstate has been at a standstill from South Pittsburg all the way to Moccasin Bend. We now go north to Dunlap, TN, and around to Cleveland, TN - 40 miles and 50 minutes out of the way but WELL WORTH IT.
Atlanta interstates are crowded at 2 in the morning for goodness sakes. I would never pull a trailer thru there (but to each his own).
You might consider getting on I-65 at Nashville and taking it all the way south to Montgomery and then a little bit of non-interstate east over to I-75. I don't think this would be much longer, but you avoid two terrible interstate systems, and you avoid most of the hills.
For what it's worth.
