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GHOST1750
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Apr 28, 2013

Driving with air conditioner

How many of you use the house air conditioner while traveling. I'm taking the motor home back to Missouri and Illinois (from California) I'm not sure the dash air is going to work that great if at all. I do know it will be more expensive but what's money.:B Going shouldn't be too bad but it may be a little warm by the middle of June. How many miles per day do you usally drive on a long trip?

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  • I always use my house air while driving in warm weather. I run my genset and run my fridge and whatever else needs AC.

    JKaz
  • 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.

    _
  • We haven't ever driven in hot enough weather to need anything other than our dash air as we usually move more in spring and fall as we workamp so we sit for several months. When we do travel, we try to travel at an easy pace as we don't have time constrains like you do if you are on vacation. We usually drive 150-200 miles per day. Once in a while more, but not usually. We are not morning people, so if we get on the road by 11am we try to stop by 4pm for the night. We take as many breaks along the way as we want, or if something catches our interest we stop.