We are trading our 5th wheel for a DP next week and I am thinking about a trip from CA to IL also.
The last few years (9yrs to be exact) we have drove our truck or suv (not towing anything) back and forth. We would drive straight through going there and then make one overnight stop coming back. Really makes for some long traveling but we are on time constraints and we are traveling to be there not for seeing sights along the way.
I figure if we drive the DP back we will be traveling slower and just stop when we get tired and not try to push it. Figure we will just spend nights at rest stops. Some of the rest stops also have rv dumps.
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