Motorhome/Toad vs Truck-Trailer/Chase Car
I have been doing a lot of study on the motorhome vs truck-trailer approach to full-timing. There is the issue of having a smaller vehicle to run around in - easily satisfied by choice of a suitabl...
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DutchmenSport wrote:blangen wrote:
Don't overlook the motorhome / chase car configuration. My wife likes to run free in the chase car and meet up when I'm stopped with the "house". There are many more opportunities for the car to get into retail locations like grocery and to-go restaurants while I cruise along in the motorhome to the next stop. When we go long distance, she flies and we ship the car. And, yes, depending on scheduling, there's a rental car at one end or the other but that works for us.
You also have the option to attach the chase car as a TOAD too. You have the best of all options then. If the wife want's to rest, you can then simply tow the car. If she want's to run around while you drive on, she can.
Since we didn't want to mess with the hardware, we bought an all-wheel drive and can't be towed. Nope, ours will only be a chase car.
Someone above mentioned communications and/or the ability to stay together. We both have hands-free phone and text capabilities so we communicate just as well as if we were side by side. We don't even try to stay on the same route as my truck Garmin may take me one way and her google maps may take the car another... but we easily meet up when we want.
