Traveling in Iowa and Kansas in January
Hi Guys/Gals, Even though I have had travel trailers since 1998, I have no experience traveling and camping in them in cold weather. Would you recommend a trip to Iowa/Kansas in January and if so, wh...
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My daughter and her husband (both) got out of the Navy and moved in with us for a while (Indiana). In January of that year, they moved to Iowa. They rented a U-haul trailer and he towed the trailer with pick-up truck. She drove the car behind with the baby.
Near St.Louis he wrecked the truck on the snow and ice. We jumped into high gear, met them there and they were able to get another another U-haul, got all their stuff moved from one to the other (the U-haul was destroyed too), and we transported their stuff on to Hubbard Iowa.
The weather was unbelievable horrible! We were driving through 20 degree below zero weather in a blizzard. Wind and the coldest I'd ever experienced in my life. We made it to their apartment. Helped unload the U-haul and literally froze ourselves, almost, beyond repair. It was the coldest, dangest, nastiest, snowiest, drifted, near impassible drive I ever made in my life!
Next morning we unhitched. He made arrangements to get the trailer back to U-haul, we headed home ... and said ... NEVER again in January.
Fast forward a couple years later. We decided to visit them again (in February). And I'll be danged if we didn't have a repeat with weather conditions! It was horrible!
That's when we said, we'd NEVER, NEVER, NEVER to to Iowa again after Thanksgiving and before April! And we haven't!
They now live in Kansas City, Mo. It ain't much better there either, and we STILL will not do the drive down I-70 from Indianapolis to Kansas City between December and April!
Take the advise from those how have responded to you so far! DO NOT go to Iowa in January - February! There is no way you'll be able to camp anywhere!
Near St.Louis he wrecked the truck on the snow and ice. We jumped into high gear, met them there and they were able to get another another U-haul, got all their stuff moved from one to the other (the U-haul was destroyed too), and we transported their stuff on to Hubbard Iowa.
The weather was unbelievable horrible! We were driving through 20 degree below zero weather in a blizzard. Wind and the coldest I'd ever experienced in my life. We made it to their apartment. Helped unload the U-haul and literally froze ourselves, almost, beyond repair. It was the coldest, dangest, nastiest, snowiest, drifted, near impassible drive I ever made in my life!
Next morning we unhitched. He made arrangements to get the trailer back to U-haul, we headed home ... and said ... NEVER again in January.
Fast forward a couple years later. We decided to visit them again (in February). And I'll be danged if we didn't have a repeat with weather conditions! It was horrible!
That's when we said, we'd NEVER, NEVER, NEVER to to Iowa again after Thanksgiving and before April! And we haven't!
They now live in Kansas City, Mo. It ain't much better there either, and we STILL will not do the drive down I-70 from Indianapolis to Kansas City between December and April!
Take the advise from those how have responded to you so far! DO NOT go to Iowa in January - February! There is no way you'll be able to camp anywhere!
