7000 miles and 20 states in 58 days.
I'm posting our trip partly for my future reference. The main reason and only reservations during this trip was for the Albuquerque balloon fest in early October. This is probably our 10th trip out We...
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9600 miles, 26 states, but I took 5 months. Basically a loopof the country FL-NC-WI-WA-CA-FL. Travel days varied from 40 to 350 miles with most in the under 250 range. I do WalMart's when no park is available, but none this year. I also made a direct to home drive from the Balloon Fiesta, but took 8 days to drive the 1900 miles to SW FL.
When I retired I considered 600 miles a normal day, and never made a reservation. My "normal day drive" has declined by about 100 miles every 5 years.
An observation on campgrounds: over the last 10 years many campgrounds have closed, very few new ones have opened, and the last couple of years has had almost a million new RV's added. This year I often found the first couple of parks I called full when I called at noon, and several times got the last open site. "Extended stay" folks occupied from 30 to 85 percent of the sites in many parks, including membership parks. Suspect it may be an indicator of economics - both what folks can afford, and the park owners efforts to have a reliable steady income while local governments overlook the new trailer park. Every RV dealers lot I passed was totally filled. Reservations may become the norm, especially Jun-Sep , and any holiday weekend. Most state parks have weekends reserved a year in advance. RV travel has become less carefree.
Plenty of Forest Service CG's and BLM areas. Many are not friendly to big rigs though, nor to most of the RV's sold today. They are ideal for my first RV - a pickup camper with a one burner stove and an icebox. The "wobble pump" and the 10 gallon water tank would last for days.
When I retired I considered 600 miles a normal day, and never made a reservation. My "normal day drive" has declined by about 100 miles every 5 years.
An observation on campgrounds: over the last 10 years many campgrounds have closed, very few new ones have opened, and the last couple of years has had almost a million new RV's added. This year I often found the first couple of parks I called full when I called at noon, and several times got the last open site. "Extended stay" folks occupied from 30 to 85 percent of the sites in many parks, including membership parks. Suspect it may be an indicator of economics - both what folks can afford, and the park owners efforts to have a reliable steady income while local governments overlook the new trailer park. Every RV dealers lot I passed was totally filled. Reservations may become the norm, especially Jun-Sep , and any holiday weekend. Most state parks have weekends reserved a year in advance. RV travel has become less carefree.
Plenty of Forest Service CG's and BLM areas. Many are not friendly to big rigs though, nor to most of the RV's sold today. They are ideal for my first RV - a pickup camper with a one burner stove and an icebox. The "wobble pump" and the 10 gallon water tank would last for days.
