How did you decide which area to go to first?
So you've decided to full time RV, you are not restricted to visiting family or because of any work commitments, and not into being somewhere for a specific event, how did you decide where to go and w...
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Old Biscuit, do you mind me asking how many miles you travelled each of the years you were FTing and typically how long would you stay in one location to explore. 6 Coast To Coasts in almost as many years seems a tremendous amount so looking forward to hearing :) Appreciate some areas require a lot longer than others to comfortably see and do and get a true flavour ie; Portland versus maybe Las Vegas hypothetically. I would assume that maybe you travelled more in Year 1 than 2 and so on?
Noplace2 - likewise how many miles would you typically cover per year, how long on average do you stay in one location,and out of curiosity what drives your whims on where to point and go at any one time? Being planners by nature, we will need baby step adjustments to initially plan looser to maybe one day going with no plan, the latter I just can't ever see being the case for us - that would be like taking a road trip with no GPS or road map. I'm most envious of your ability to do so for so many years. Ironically if we hadn't of set out plans years ago, we wouldn't be in the position today to hit the road as we intended. For sure we always allow some wiggle room for unexpected incidents, like mechanical breakdowns, but to have no "kind of" plan I can't begin to imagine.
We've touched for at least a couple of nights in our working/family rearing lives over 40+ states including Alaska and Hawaii but in those days we were target destination geared for shortened vacation trips. You don't get a true flavour and quite rightly we missed out a lot of wonderful places I'm sure enroute or weren't able to savour many being restricted on time back then as you say trying to reach the next goal.
We had thought for our first full snow birding season allowing approximately a month to month and half in each of the following states Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Does that seem realistic? We are just not the type (YET!) to go and sit in a destination RV park for weather alone for 3 or 4 months doing set planned activities. If we enjoy locations or specific activities in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico areas and want longer we'll just basically drive through versus exploring AZ and NV our first full winter season. Of course we have to be in Canada for half the year as well, so thinking a different tangent as well, it'll be interesting how we handle finding enough days to explore the more northerly states for the summers over the years! PNW, Maine, NY, Michigan UP, Smokey Mountains etc
Truly do value your input based on experiences and thanks for your time.
FTW.
Noplace2 - likewise how many miles would you typically cover per year, how long on average do you stay in one location,and out of curiosity what drives your whims on where to point and go at any one time? Being planners by nature, we will need baby step adjustments to initially plan looser to maybe one day going with no plan, the latter I just can't ever see being the case for us - that would be like taking a road trip with no GPS or road map. I'm most envious of your ability to do so for so many years. Ironically if we hadn't of set out plans years ago, we wouldn't be in the position today to hit the road as we intended. For sure we always allow some wiggle room for unexpected incidents, like mechanical breakdowns, but to have no "kind of" plan I can't begin to imagine.
We've touched for at least a couple of nights in our working/family rearing lives over 40+ states including Alaska and Hawaii but in those days we were target destination geared for shortened vacation trips. You don't get a true flavour and quite rightly we missed out a lot of wonderful places I'm sure enroute or weren't able to savour many being restricted on time back then as you say trying to reach the next goal.
We had thought for our first full snow birding season allowing approximately a month to month and half in each of the following states Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Does that seem realistic? We are just not the type (YET!) to go and sit in a destination RV park for weather alone for 3 or 4 months doing set planned activities. If we enjoy locations or specific activities in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico areas and want longer we'll just basically drive through versus exploring AZ and NV our first full winter season. Of course we have to be in Canada for half the year as well, so thinking a different tangent as well, it'll be interesting how we handle finding enough days to explore the more northerly states for the summers over the years! PNW, Maine, NY, Michigan UP, Smokey Mountains etc
Truly do value your input based on experiences and thanks for your time.
FTW.
