Are we Nuts? Travel cross country in 7 days?
.Hi, what do you think about some virgin RVers taking their 2 boys (ages 5/11) from central Florida to Arizona within 6 days? We can rent an 25 foot Class C for super cheap if we do it that way. My hu...
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That is certainly a reasonable amount of time for the one way trip if you believe there is nothing to take your time to stop and see. When was a child we made many trips at an even faster pace, kept track of what we found so we might visit those places on a later trip. moved about as fast through our working lives, it was not until retirement that we could slow down and visit more of the places we discovered on our on road trips, e.g. Michigan to Central Florida as six days instead of two (or one very long drive). but always, even in those 50s and 60s cross country road trips, we took time to stop and visit one or two interesting places each travel day. It was easier then, because there were no Interstates, everything was advertised right alongside the road, and we were moving most of the time at 45-50 mph rather than the 70-80 people move today.
I suggest your trip be planned as a loop, coming back a different way than you go, particularly since one of your interests (Grand Canyon) is on the I-40 route following old Route 66 which is wealthy in natural, historical and tourist attractions, and the other (San Antonio) is on I-10 which has long "empty" stretches if you don't know what attractions to seek.
If you can work it into your route, I suggest a visit to the meteor crater site east of the Grand Canyon. As an earth feature, this is really more important to the interaction between man and Earth than a canyon that took millions of years to carve.
Renting a RV for the trip is a good idea, since you are not sure you'll like that mode of travel. It is not really camping, unless you want to make it camping, as you take a house with you. But you may not find that house as comfortable as your own home, and only by trying it at least once will you know whether or not it is comfortable enough. That's a lot better than buying one to find out that you don't like the lifestyle; I got my RV at a good price from a family that bought, made one trip, and decided they just couldn't live that way. You just won't know until until you try.
I suggest your trip be planned as a loop, coming back a different way than you go, particularly since one of your interests (Grand Canyon) is on the I-40 route following old Route 66 which is wealthy in natural, historical and tourist attractions, and the other (San Antonio) is on I-10 which has long "empty" stretches if you don't know what attractions to seek.
If you can work it into your route, I suggest a visit to the meteor crater site east of the Grand Canyon. As an earth feature, this is really more important to the interaction between man and Earth than a canyon that took millions of years to carve.
Renting a RV for the trip is a good idea, since you are not sure you'll like that mode of travel. It is not really camping, unless you want to make it camping, as you take a house with you. But you may not find that house as comfortable as your own home, and only by trying it at least once will you know whether or not it is comfortable enough. That's a lot better than buying one to find out that you don't like the lifestyle; I got my RV at a good price from a family that bought, made one trip, and decided they just couldn't live that way. You just won't know until until you try.
