DOES THIS BUDGET SOUND REASONABLE?
Planning my first MH trip, 4-5 months. I'll be alone. I'll have at least $5000 emergency cash and will be recieving about $2300 per month while I'm on the road. Guessing 1000 gallons of gas at $5 /g...
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To me it does. BUT it will depend on how far you are travelling from home (across the country in one go or poking along?) and how long you are staying at each place. Make room for boondocking in there as much as possible...the $15 per day in campgrounds is low (but passport America would help that and boondocking will help a lot). The $15 per day for food is fine and should allow some eating out here and there (national average for food is about $7 per head daily last time I checked and that is usually our food budget). Currently $5.00 per gallon for gas is generous but you will have other things that might eat that up.
Squish those pennies and you should be okay. On long trips we have spent between $75 per day to $130 per day over the length of the trip depending on how far we went and how much we moved.
Planning my first MH trip, 4-5 months. I'll be alone.
I'll have at least $5000 emergency cash and will be recieving about $2300 per month while I'm on the road.
Guessing 1000 gallons of gas at $5 /gallon.
I eat cheap and am budgeting $15 / day for food.
Budgeting $15 / day for camping. I don't plan any private campgrounds. I have a senior pass for National Parks and can get 50% off federal campgrounds. Also plan to use small city parks along the way, some Walmarts, Forest service campgrounds.
Does this sound reasonable over the length of the trip? I do realize that on some days the actual costs will be higher as well as lower. But, on the long term average, does this seem doable?
Squish those pennies and you should be okay. On long trips we have spent between $75 per day to $130 per day over the length of the trip depending on how far we went and how much we moved.
Planning my first MH trip, 4-5 months. I'll be alone.
I'll have at least $5000 emergency cash and will be recieving about $2300 per month while I'm on the road.
Guessing 1000 gallons of gas at $5 /gallon.
I eat cheap and am budgeting $15 / day for food.
Budgeting $15 / day for camping. I don't plan any private campgrounds. I have a senior pass for National Parks and can get 50% off federal campgrounds. Also plan to use small city parks along the way, some Walmarts, Forest service campgrounds.
Does this sound reasonable over the length of the trip? I do realize that on some days the actual costs will be higher as well as lower. But, on the long term average, does this seem doable?
