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kokotg
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Sep 29, 2015

Finding places to stop along the way (during the day)

We just bought our first travel trailer a few weeks ago and so far have only a couple of weekend trips close to home under our belts. But we're planning on a lot of long summer road trips over the next few years. We have 4 kids and are used to being able to break up long driving days with a stop somewhere to let the kids run around....a museum or mall or park or whatever's on the way. So my question is....how much are we going to need to adjust our travel style to accommodate this big old trailer we're pulling now? Trailer is almost 33 feet and we're towing with a full size van, so total length is....a lot. Do we need to resign ourselves to places that we can walk to from a Wal-mart parking lot from now on? Or is finding places to stop easier than it seems to my intimidated newbie self? Should we call ahead and ask about RV parking for tourist places? I feel like I must be overthinking this since I don't see people talking about it much anywhere. But I'm pretty good at overthinking things ;).

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