I've seen several RV's that were headed to NASCAR races, or other venues where it is not necessary to have a toad, and in some cases, not allowed. I am sure that there are also people headed to destination RV parks where they will sit for the season and utilize a rental vehicle.
Personally in all of the years we have been RVing we have never been to what we would consider a destination RV park. In other words, wherever we have parked, it was to see other things in the area, not spend time using the amenities at some RV park. Even when we parked in Trailer Village, in the Grand Canyon, we used the toad to visit several areas within and outside of the park during our 7 day stay. Even with the free shuttle, there were several places we wanted to go to that required a separate vehicle. Keep in mind that we travel with a 100+ pound dog and many times we like to take our dog with us as we explore other sights so this requires that we provide our own transportation.
In a typical 3-4 month trip out West from Florida, we will usually put twice as many miles on our toad than on the motor home.
We travel a lot of the back roads and we consider the toad as sort of our back-up emergency transportation if something happens to the RV. Once, in Texas, a transmission cooling line split and we actually used the toad to push the motor home to a safe area away from traffic. We only had to push it maybe 50 yards, but the toad and the tow bar handled the task. We then used the toad to get more transmission fluid and what I needed to repair the leak and continue on our trip.
We have traveled to and explored many sights that others have never experienced, only because we had our toad and we decided to venture out that day from the RV park. For us it makes the RV adventure much more complete and since we already own the toad, and are paying insurance on it, we might as well take it with us instead of letting it gather dust at home.
