At what $/gallon would it slow you down?
Not just a B-van question. I've been looking thru videos on RV's overseas. Of course they are much smaller due to fuel costs, road conditions and land values, among other reasons, I'm sure. It's ki...
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I've changed the way I use my C, much less for travel, more for short (less than 50 miles) to local parks or lakes for a week or so at a time. I got a E-350 van for travel, about 10-15,000 miles a year. That puts me with respect to MPG about where you arewith a B. Not so much about fuel cost though (if worried abiut that I can make the trips in my 36 MPG subcompact car), it is just that the C is too big for getting around and parking some of the places I want to go.
Fuel costs rising raise the cost of all travel modes, it costs me more than twice as much to get to Europe as it did 8-10 years ago, Fuel costs hit the cruises too, but total cost of that is so high that fuel costs are still a small part of it.
I don't see myself cutting back on travel anytime soon, based on fuel costs. Just now I live to travel, being away 1/3 to 1/2 the year. I enable this by choosing to live in a very inexpensive place. I can house myself for a year for less than what it costs per month in major urban areas or real estate hot spots. It means I can devote more than half my modest retirement budget to travel, one or two big trips a year and a lot of road tripping in the U.S. If I don't use the retirement income, the IRS is going to take about half of it as a penalty.
What will slow me down will be age and disability, not motor fuel prices.
Fuel costs rising raise the cost of all travel modes, it costs me more than twice as much to get to Europe as it did 8-10 years ago, Fuel costs hit the cruises too, but total cost of that is so high that fuel costs are still a small part of it.
I don't see myself cutting back on travel anytime soon, based on fuel costs. Just now I live to travel, being away 1/3 to 1/2 the year. I enable this by choosing to live in a very inexpensive place. I can house myself for a year for less than what it costs per month in major urban areas or real estate hot spots. It means I can devote more than half my modest retirement budget to travel, one or two big trips a year and a lot of road tripping in the U.S. If I don't use the retirement income, the IRS is going to take about half of it as a penalty.
What will slow me down will be age and disability, not motor fuel prices.
