Heading west?
Just starting to think about a trip west. Leaving from CT, heading to possibly Colorado, or Wyoming, or Utah. Just looking for some very basic info at this point, and I know there are a million var...
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Going to be very difficult making reservations for every night with a trailer. 6-8+ weeks, especially if you only average 50mph and only drive 6-8 hours/day. It’s 2000 miles to RMNP so that’s 6 days of finding CGs and setting up each night even if it’s just putting a slide out and cooking. Are you really going to unhook the car and go exploring each night?
Even though we’ve been doing this for decades, our objective is still to get to CO (or WY) and then slow down. Left GA Monday evening (5 days ago) and made the mistake of not using the Interstates as much…trying something new that everyone raves about, the black roads. I’m surprised I still have a driver’s mirror (over width load on narrow road with no shoulder) and that the windshield didn’t pop out…narrow 2 lane roads and a closing speed of 125 mph with only 2-3’ of separation with the 18 wheelers.
Still made it past Denver (1500 miles) by Wednesday afternoon…we never stop before a big city as inbound traffic in the morning will be worse. Got into our 1st choice of CGs by being there Thursday morning at 9AM…forget doing that on Friday.
We are no reservations types and even last summer it worked out with 2 big rigs…should be easier with only one this summer despite it being busier than normal. Helps that we are fully self contained for a week or more.
Even though we’ve been doing this for decades, our objective is still to get to CO (or WY) and then slow down. Left GA Monday evening (5 days ago) and made the mistake of not using the Interstates as much…trying something new that everyone raves about, the black roads. I’m surprised I still have a driver’s mirror (over width load on narrow road with no shoulder) and that the windshield didn’t pop out…narrow 2 lane roads and a closing speed of 125 mph with only 2-3’ of separation with the 18 wheelers.
Still made it past Denver (1500 miles) by Wednesday afternoon…we never stop before a big city as inbound traffic in the morning will be worse. Got into our 1st choice of CGs by being there Thursday morning at 9AM…forget doing that on Friday.
We are no reservations types and even last summer it worked out with 2 big rigs…should be easier with only one this summer despite it being busier than normal. Helps that we are fully self contained for a week or more.
