motor home mpg

Floridastorm wrote:
Glad to hear that you are happy with your Prius. However, I wonder when you include hotels (My wife and I would never stay in a hotel that was less than $100 per night as we enjoy comfort and safety) and food (we don't do fast food) at $80 per day, if a MH would not be less expensive. The food you have in the MH is the same as you have at home, so no extra expense. And RV parks are 1/3 the price of a hotel. Also, do you do tent camping? You talk about a Pup. I guess if you stay in tents things would be less expensive.

We value safety and comfort, too, but it is very rare for us to pay more than $85/nt on a hotel room. Just takes a bit of advance planning, usually. As for food, I don't think we have ever spent $80 in a day. We always bring our own breakfast foods, utensils, plates, and cups. Sometimes we take advantage of the free hotel breakfast, if it's decent. Our big meal of the day is always lunch and I'm like you--we don't do fast food, except for McDonald's coffee and choc chip cookies (fast food crack!) We find a nice enough restaurant and we always share a meal (neither of us can eat an entire meal alone.) Or if we really want different things we'll order separate meals and take half of it back to the cooler in the car, to eat for dinner later. We always carry fruit, salad & dressing, grilled or fried chicken, cheese, and bread. Oh, and boloney. Gotta have my boloney sandwiches!

We save a blue TON of money on gas by driving the Prius and it rides well. Would we rather be towing again? Well, that's complicated. Some days we sorely miss having the truck and camper so we could just pack up and go. But, realistically, our health has taken some big hits in the last 3 years. I don't really know how much we would actually use the camper and truck now. Better for us to just park it at a place we love and use the Prius (and requisite cooler) for day trips.