I had never driven a MH at all before we picked up ours at a dealer about a two hour drive from home. I already had a toad prepped for it, which we drove to the dealer. We did the inspection, signed the papers, hooked up the toad, and away we went. So my first-ever RV drive was in a big ol' motorhome with a toad behind it (55' total length) on a mixture of rural two and four lane and to our home in the suburbs of a big metro area. We (my wife and I with two sons 10 and 7) then did only two local area weekend practice outings (a state park and a KOA) before setting out on a month long, 8,500 mile circle tour of state and national parks out west all the way across the northern tier to the coast, down the coast, and across the south back to Ohio.
That was eleven years and several big trips ago, and we never had any serious issues at all on any level of RVing, getting there or back, docking, mechanical, equipment-related, etc. Maybe we were lucky, well prepared, RV-compatible, or a combo of each. Being a decade older now I look back on those big cross country trips, especially the first one only a few weeks after buying the MH and with such young, active sons, and wonder if I'd have the nerve (or energy) to try it now. I probably would, because I still believe that we can sometimes psyche ourselves out and make things more complicated and scary than they have to be. Do you research, take things a step at a time, and you'll do fine.
