Tool: how far can I travel in x hours?
Many RVers have a rule of only driving x number of hours a day (they choose what x is). I was curious how many camping locations were around my home within a half day drive. I went in search of on...
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TucsonJim wrote:wbwood wrote:
Another thing that comes into play is if you are crunched for time. For many of us, we work (sometimes both spouses like us) and have kids in school. Time off is often limited. So many a time it's about the destination and not the trip along the way.
I've been there, and completely understand. When I was working, I've put as many as 750-800 miles on in a day to get to the destination we were heading such as Yellowstone. Now that we retired last year, it's typically 250-300 in a day.
Yep, and when we go fulltime, we won't be pushing it like that either unless there is a specific reason...
We decided to do a 2 week trip this summer. 2 weeks is the maximum amount we can take. It's easier for me to do it than it is my wife. I get my entire time for the year at the beginning of the year, but she has to accrue it at a rate of a couple days a month. And it includes being out sick or being out for our daughter being out sick. Unfortunately, the corporate world now holds it against you for being out like that. Anyway, I can't even pick my time for the next year until December. So, in the middle of December, we are trying to make plans (for when our daughter is out of school). So it's usually the week of spring break or sometime in the summer. Both which are popular times. And of course where we want to go, is where everyone else wants to go. You can only do the same places over and over without getting tired of them. That's why we have an RV, so we can go to different places. Otherwise, we would just buy a condo or do the timeshare thin. Can you say BORING!? This summer, we are headed to the keys. 2 week trip. Planned on spending most of it down there, but will probably only do a week there and then come back up closer to home. We have a family obligation back home at the end of the trip that we need to be at. We constantly think of places to go, but then change our mind. I may pick some place, but my wife doesn't wanna go there. And then she may pick somewhere that I don't want to spend my vacation at. WE will eventually see those places, but when we are crunched for time, it needs to be somewhere mutual...lol
