Miles per gallon on a 40 to 44 foot diesel

2gypsies wrote:
Keep in mind that full-timers are seldom, if at all, in SNOW! You're not going to be stranded for days on end and run out of fuel for the generator.

It is not something I would normally do but in a few weeks I will be headed to Northern AZ. A few years ago I was headed up north to a funeral in NY. The weather was fine when I left SC. I got a light dusting of snow at the Virginia N Carolina border. But the time I got to the north end of Virginia it was so bad I had to pull onto a rest stop overnight and hope it would get better. The next morning it got worst and I had to turn around. I never made it to the funeral.

Stuff can happen You can leave home with no reports of bad weather then you can suddenly run into a snow storm.

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I used snow as an example but you can also wind up with roads impassible due to flooding, SC just had the worst rain in 200 years. What could have happened if the roads were closed due to flooding and someone got trapped?

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This happened to me about 5 years ago

I was driving Penske moving van from NY to SC with a 26 foot box with a total length of about 35 feet, I got too sick to drive and stopped at a motel in Maryland. I laid in bed for two days and lived on soda and snacks from a vending machine.

That could have happened while I was boon docking and instead of two days I could have been too ill to drive for a week. One of the many reasons why I like to travel in an RV is that I like the security of having food and a place to stay if I become too ill to drive.

I never get behind the wheel if I am not 100% and traveling in any RV give me an option where I can pull over and rest if it becomes necessary.