Anyone Cancelling Truck Camper Trips Due to Fuel Prices?

mike/kellie wrote:
We're still doing the western states swing. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Home. Home prices set the bar high. Looking forward to sub $6.00 diesel

$5.69 to $5.79 here in Idaho.

No truck camper here, but towing a 13k FW is pretty heavy and we don't plan on discontinuing our trips. We just returned from a trip to the mountains. We planned as we always have, to take one day to check out the local campgrounds, fill up our tank and back to our site where we stayed put for the rest of the trip.

I'm going to be doing the sights and fishing I never did here in Flushington State. Lots of BLM to explore and Forest Service Land. Sweetie is still handcuffed to the worktable but I'm free as a bird.
I was toying with Alaska but not sure about this season. I still have time to decide yeah or nay. Current conditions could make it easy to get into places normally booked full.

We're still doing the western states swing. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Home. Home prices set the bar high. Looking forward to sub $6.00 diesel

Depends on your age...and luck! I say go and enjoy. You may not get another chance.

Still traveling from Buffalo, NY to Fairbanks Alaska and lots of points in between. Traveling July, August, September, and back home sometime in October. We're estimating $10,000 in diesel fuel. Glad we took the money out of our investments before the market started to drop!

Nope, already on trip 7 of 18 planned. Actually with Bahia Honda, 19...

Not really. However then again I don't travel all that far on my trips.

Given the two/three cost items: reservations, fuel and sometimes food/drink, how much extra costly do they have to be to avoid travel and/or abort/abandon a trip?

Reservations? IDK about the rest of you, but I'm booked through September and they are already paid for.

I mention "sometimes" food/drink as these are items that I'd be paying for anyway while staying home. While I may (or NOT!) get items on the road, eating in camp is surely less expensive then eating out.

Unless I'm staying for long periods at expensive places, fuel is almost always the single biggest expense of a trip. However where/what exactly is the 'tipping point'? %25, %50, %100, %200? I suppose here it depends on how much was budgeted in the first place before the magnitude of the % increases are applied.



- Mark0.

every one ,every one just sit on your butt for one month .I mean every one. there be such a drop it,ll wake up the people who made this mess. for those that don,t care about the price, go have some fun.

I'm 80. I don't have time to wait for lower prices. I'm starting Ramblin' 2022 next week for 5 months! :)