Need opinions .....Drive the RV home?
Hello fellow RV folks. Looking for an opinion. My family and I are from Northern Maine. We have traveled to California with our 2004 Forest River Sierra 27' 5th wheel RV (is not a 4 season rv) Fami...
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It would depend on if you want to use the 5th in California again.
If you don't want to use it in California again, head east along the southern US. When you get in the eastern US, start heading north and see what the weather is doing at that time. If the roads are bad, winterize it and put it in an RV storage place. You can make a run down from Maine when the weather is suitable.
If you want to use it in California again, no need to drag it all the way to Maine and back. Put it in storage and drive on home. If you have other vehicles at home, leave the truck there also. The fuel, food and maintenance savings will pay for most of the plane tickets - depending on how many of you there are.
We're in Alaska, so we never take our MH home, we usually leave it in the EL Mirage area west of Phoenix under covered storage and then just catch Alaska Airlines in and out of Phoenix. Pretty painless and a lot cheaper than driving the MH home all of the time.
Studs are nice on really icy roads, but not necessary. When I went to buy new winter tires for my truck the dealer had studded all of them so I had to go with studded tires to get the ones I wanted.
Bill
If you don't want to use it in California again, head east along the southern US. When you get in the eastern US, start heading north and see what the weather is doing at that time. If the roads are bad, winterize it and put it in an RV storage place. You can make a run down from Maine when the weather is suitable.
If you want to use it in California again, no need to drag it all the way to Maine and back. Put it in storage and drive on home. If you have other vehicles at home, leave the truck there also. The fuel, food and maintenance savings will pay for most of the plane tickets - depending on how many of you there are.
We're in Alaska, so we never take our MH home, we usually leave it in the EL Mirage area west of Phoenix under covered storage and then just catch Alaska Airlines in and out of Phoenix. Pretty painless and a lot cheaper than driving the MH home all of the time.
Studs are nice on really icy roads, but not necessary. When I went to buy new winter tires for my truck the dealer had studded all of them so I had to go with studded tires to get the ones I wanted.
Bill
