On the road observations
We just returned from a 3 night stay on the Gulf Coast. I would say the campground was 95% booked. The weather was great. You would never know the price of fuel is up. No shortage of campers and a...
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Wade44 wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Of course, in the big picture, fuel costs are not a big driving force. If you've already bought an RV:
- You still have the $500/month payments (assuming typical people who get loans).
- You still have $100/month insurance.
- You still have $500-1000/yr in maintenance costs.
- You still pay $25-60/night for a site.
- We are looking at a Michigan to Yellowstone trip later this fall and over the 2 months, we have it calculated as maybe around $300 extra for fuel.
While annoying, fuel costs hardly move the needle in terms of the overall RVing costs.
I sure hope you didn't straddle yourself with a $500 monthly payment, a $1200 per year insurance bill, and $1000 maintenance budget on a 2021 Cherokee Gary Wolf? That's ridiculous.
Since we were talking about the larger industry, I was listing some fairly typical numbers. I would consider them ridiculous but I see people doing it all the time. We are well below those numbers but I wouldn't consider us typical.
Even if you cut the numbers I list in half, $300 doesn't move the needle enough to make your average RVer not take the RV out. It's certainly not going to leave our kids (not that we have any) going hungry at lunch time for 3 months.
