Horsedoc wrote:
We owned one 30 foot travel trailer with no slides. It was fine for trips to the local state parks. On the kind of extended, long-range trips you describe the MH would be our choice. Taking breaks for toilet, snacks or stretching legs is so much easier in the MH. If you are doing a long haul, it is so simple to pull into a safe place and catch a nap or even sleep a few hours.
We just wound up a similar trip 6-7months and 8000 miles & 45 travel days. That's about a 3hr average travel day (there was an exception to get out of Texas during the recent weather fiasco but no real problem doing it).
We might swing into a rest area halfway for a bathroom break but really not bad at all. No real need to park and take a nap but if we had to, we could certainly do it with the trailer.
We can set up or tear down as fast as a MH...of course, for a long trip like this, there isn't a lot of pressure to go fast. We usually don't leave until 10-11am and are in by 1-2pm. Even so, from the time we decide to get going until the truck is in drive is only about 15min without rushing. I've yet to see someone in a MH with a toad do it much quicker.
About the only way to significantly reduce that time would be to drop back to a camper van without a toad and don't set up anything. Then you can just hop in the driver's seat and go but once you have a full size MH with toad, there isn't any time savings. (plus keep in mind, I can back out of a gas station if it's tight...with a toad, you have to unhook if you can't go forward)
