How far do you travel per day?

allen8106 wrote:
Like many, we are not retired and have limited amount of time off. As such we usually plan for long driving days any where from 8-14 hours. My wife starts getting the itch to stop at around 10 hours. If, IF I can hold her back we can usually manage the 14 hours when we need to. Back in June/July we completed a 5200 mile round trip to Oregon and back home. We had driving days of 12.0, 10.9, 14.6, 6.0, 7.8, 7.3, 13.3, 9.9. All wrapped around the need to be at a specific place at a specific time. Why? Because we're not retired and right now we have to do it. Some day it won't be so.

We were just like you when our children were young RVing around School vacations and work commitments. Calgary to Las Vegas, leave 3.30pm today straight after school out, stop for few hours sleep enroute then be in Mesquite by following evening. I'd prep food before or during driving for speed (not unusual to be peeling potatoes in the passenger seat with garbage bag, saucepan, peeler and veggies up front to then on next mini rest stop get it on cooking for later. So often 12 and 14+ hour days with little sleep the first night enroute. You gotta do what you gotta do to embrace experiences throughout all stages of life.

Nowadays and 20+ years older we find we are able, and most importantly we have to, take it a lot lot slower. It is not unusual for us to some days only cover 50/100miles or less as we stop and start smelling the roses, aka fishing, more enroute. Albeit we do pull an odd long last day when we are so close to homebase we can taste it so to speak.

Generally speaking today, we don't plan on 'x' hours or 'x' miles per day for the most part, we tend to travel more serendipitously. Albeit are travels are researched and planned, we always allow spare days every 3 days or so for wiggle room in case somewhere appeals more to us to stay longer or mechanical issues occur or "just because".