Great responses here. Keep those links coming. I looked at some and it is a bit like comparing apples to oranges, since we don't need more than a parking space to stealth camp in. Stop motor. Pull down steps. climb said steps. Pull up steps. Close door. Pull down shades. Voila! Instant domicile.
We have traveled with other friends and found we like to motate at a faster pace than any of them do. So, we do plan to move every day (with a few exceptions) traveling oh, maybe 100-200 miles per day to the next place of interest. Of course this is all about the distance between attractions. It may be like our tour up the Oregon Coast. Some of those days we only traveled 20 miles up the coast to the next State Campground. But, we are not lingerers.
Yes, we are planning on visiting every beach camping experience open to us, from Mass. down the coast to Assateague to the Outer Banks, with our last beach experience being driving the 100 miles down the beach on South Padre Island on the Gulf. We are set up for dune running lowering the pressure in those super singles (and on-board air to get them back up).
I'm hoping to drive a lot of secondary roads and not just interstates from end to end. You see more local color and the mpg's go up. @62 mph we get 15 mpg without a headwind or hills. @70 mph it drops to 12-13 mpg. @ 45 mph (secondary road speed) it can be 16 mpg, which is good for a 10K pound white windbreak.
It looks like leaving around Sept. 1st or so we can time it to see the Fall Foliage in the Northeast by October 1st. With 4 wheel drive, traction diffs and the go-anywhere capability of our rig, only a big hurricane would deter us. Not as likely in October. We've been thru 100 mph winds during a sudden Haboob in Death Valley:
and 4 foot snowfalls with the XTC with no deletorious effect.
I really don't know how much time this will take. I depends on how many whiffs we want to take of the flowers.
But, with your kind input the picture is starting to have much more focus.
regards, as always, jefe
