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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Where you going? Budget sounds reasonable for Oklahoma, rural Texas, most of the rural midwest, so long as you can find city-county parks and COEs. When you get into heavily populated areas, or places extensively developed as suburbs, parking cost is going to go up, if you are welcome at all.
Haven't eaten on $15 a day, on the road, since I got back from China in 2004. Can do it at home, if careful to keep to staples, but meat and fresh produce, packaged drinks, processed convenience foods can push me to $20-30. I tend to fast food it on the road, to save time, but that pushes my food costs way up, compared to eating in. However, a $2 bag of trail mix can go a long way with the day's nutritional needs while moving, and I don't even have to stop to eat.
In the RV, I have to pay to stay or pay to move. If the stay is too expensive, I'll move. lf the stay is cheap, like $8-12 a day, I'll stay, though most of those places have time limits. Get to a popular destination, or RV park close to an urban area, staying might be $25, $30, $50 a day, so I avoid those. Needless to say, your budget won't work for luxury resorts or premium destinations.
Haven't eaten on $15 a day, on the road, since I got back from China in 2004. Can do it at home, if careful to keep to staples, but meat and fresh produce, packaged drinks, processed convenience foods can push me to $20-30. I tend to fast food it on the road, to save time, but that pushes my food costs way up, compared to eating in. However, a $2 bag of trail mix can go a long way with the day's nutritional needs while moving, and I don't even have to stop to eat.
In the RV, I have to pay to stay or pay to move. If the stay is too expensive, I'll move. lf the stay is cheap, like $8-12 a day, I'll stay, though most of those places have time limits. Get to a popular destination, or RV park close to an urban area, staying might be $25, $30, $50 a day, so I avoid those. Needless to say, your budget won't work for luxury resorts or premium destinations.
