Here's what we did for our retirement trip. It ended up being 6 months, 16 states and 6000 miles. We left New England Nov. 1st and returned the following May 4th.
The overall theme was "We don't want to see any snow". 2014 was a brutal winter on the Cape and we were wondering why we were putting up with it when we had a motor home and were planning to retire. I was already there and the DW would retire the same the next year.
That pretty much set us up for southeast or southwest. Seeing that we had friends and relatives in Florida, we went southeast. Friends and relatives in the Palm Beach area, Sarasota, the Villages and Destin got us into the end of January. We made advanced reservations in the places we wanted to be at a certain time and winged it in between. We continued to follow the Gulf coast to Galveston and then headed north eventually to visit the DD in KC Mo in early April, then home. We had very few "have to be there" legs. We found that 5 hours on the road was about the limit. We tried to stay at each stop a week.
I had mail forwarded to my son and called him once a week to sort out the junk and forward what I needed. I set up electronic bill pay for everything I could.
Last summer's trip was 11 weeks and we got as far west as Williston ND. We were headed for Glacier NP, but fires closed the campgrounds before we got there. On this trip we had a vague idea of a plan and made no advanced reservations. The SIL got the mail duty this trip. I did most of the planning using RV Trip Wizard. This app allows you to enter your travel days in miles or hours and draws a circle around you current position. Go to the edge of the circle, find a campground that looks good (trip wizard links directly to campgroundreviews.com - the same company owns both) and call them for a site.
Nothing ruins a trip like you are planning faster than having to be somewhere at a certain time.
