Where get gas with trailer attached

pitch wrote:
Question for you guys that know your gas stops before you leave. How? Why? Is it that you always travel the same route? I just cannot imagine that level of planning. You never get stuck at an accident scene or in construction that messes your schedule up?
Never are distracted by an alternate unplanned attraction?

I don't know, I am out to relax and explore, tight logistics and planning would kind of take the fun out of it for me.

I can only speak for myself. I have a 26 gal tank so I'm buying gas every 150-200 miles. I know my final destination for the day and what road I will travel.

How? I go to google maps and determine what town is 150 miles away. I prefer Chevron, Exxon, Conoco in that order so I'll search Chevron Gas, city, state in google maps and it shows me where they are. I'll click on one on the road I'll be on, if available, and select street view. Then I see what I would see if I was sitting there in front of it. Can I get in and out? No, I'll look at the next one. Can I get in and out? yes, if come in this way I can get to that pump and have room to get out.

It only take about 10 minutes to find my two or three valid gas stops for the day.

Why? Because I don't want to be stressed out driving around looking for a pump I can get to. I don't want to pull off the interstate only to realize I can't get to that pump and then have to get back onto the interstate, burning more gas and wasting more time.

Furthermore, we will pull over at one of those stops for lunch. I will use the map to locate a large parking lot or somewhere we can park for an hour or so. How many times have you been blindly rolling through a town looking for someplace to stop for lunch? Have you ever passed though an intersection, looking left and right down the side street and say "Oh, there's a _______, we could have parked there"? Too late, you passed it up. I know where I'm going to stop for lunch before I hitch up for the day.

To me, I find this much less stressful.
Schedule doesn't matter because I will pass that point sometime in the day regardless and I'll have some reserve for the unexpected.

YMMV