Year long family US history tour
Were planning on taking our kids on a year long tour of the US; we'll be homeschooling and figure that actually getting hands-on with our history will be much better than just reading about it. We ...
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donn0128 wrote:
Keep your clothes to one to one and a half seasons. Make your travel plans coincide with the weather. Washer/dryer? Definitely a yes! Doing a load a day takes no time at all. Start a load and go do what you want. Come home, clothes are done and ready for putting away. This allows you to limit clothes needed,IE more room. Remember, you will need room for school supplies, books etc. Not to mention a place for the kids to work. If you really want to understand how little space you will have available, pack yourselves, kids and yoir clothes into 350 SQFT and try living in that space for a month. Overpacking especially clothes is the absolute worst thing you could do. Clothes can take up a lot of space in a big hurry. And you only have XXX amount of available space inside an RV.
We lived for about 6 months in a 28'(224sqft) Starcraft BH TT without a slide; this was back when my kids were just babbies, so you can imagine how much of their******was everywhere.
There is actually a ton of space (loft bed instead of in the garage), U dinette with a ton of outside accessible storage, full size master closet and the entire 10' garage to play with (planning on a wardrobe closet and bunk beds back there). The loft is about 8x8, so another 64sqft of storage there. This is the one positive about owning a toy hauler and not owning toys. Even with sticking a fridge, beds and wardrobe in there, there will still be room for a W/D with space left over. The dinette will be their desk.
Since we're going to store whatever we want to keep in a chosen local, we may also keep a stash of clothes there, as well (we have family near Jacksonville with some property). We will need to visit periodically, so that may just be the answer. Since I contract overseas with the military so much, I have a ton of all weather gear, and have learned through my travels what works pretty much all year; If I can only get the old lady onboard and convince her she doesn't need 14 outfits for "just in case"
Last thing is insurance and road side assistance; we'll be getting the Good Sam package before hitting the road. Any other recommendations?
