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".

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.

4-5 hours normally, up to 7-8 on occasion if we don't have to leave early the next day and possibly up to around 12 if there was no other option. But it depends...

Depends on which CGs you want to stay in. We are T/T members and try and stay in those since they are no added cost on a trip. Depends on what other CGs are available along a leg of a trip and what they're like. Sometimes places to stop overnight are far and few between and you have to go farther.

Depends on the road conditions. Towing on an interstate may or may not be tiring and depends on traffic, elevation changes, how many twisty curves, etc. Towing on some secondary highways with a lot of tight curves and speed changes can be quite tiring physically and mentally. Hwy 299 from Redding to the coast & hwy 17 in Ca., hwy 126 in Or. and hwy 7 south of Seattle come to mind. Hwy 101 on the Or. coast is "boring" in comparison. :) You can find out what many roads are like on the internet and sometimes there's a video of the actual road.

Depends on the truck and trailer - WDH brand & type, sway control, HD shocks on TV, shocks on TT, etc. Some TV & TT combos can be a white knuckle drive and some are relatively easy to drive. Our truck and TT are set up well for sway on freeways and handling/stability on twisty mountain highways and is a pleasure to drive. Our first TT (20') and truck (1/2 ton) was a white knuckle drive much of the time and I was exhausted at the end of a leg.

Depends on your age, your health and who does the driving. I'm 63 and do 100 percent of the driving because of a chronic health issue DW has. DW advises sometimes it can get pretty boring just sitting there for hours on end. :R We try and do 1-3 rest stops depending on the distance which can really help. It can be hard to pace yourself and limit the time/distance. Only you will know what works for you but don't forget about others with you.

DW does all the pre-booking of CGs and time/distance calculating weeks to months in advance. Sometimes stuff happens like forest fires, road construction, accidents, weather or breakdowns and will really screw things up. If you pre-plan for 4-5 hours/day and if you couldn't stay in a CG for any reason you *could* go onto the next CG on your trip on a 8 - 10 hour leg.

On the road by 9am. Stop for lunch at noonish. Back on the road until 3pm max. When I was younger I could drive around the clock. Not anymore.

We will do a 13-14 hour day driving from here to our son's house, just us (and the dog) in the truck. Towing I prefer to do much shorter days, but I will leave home in the dark (5am or so) to do a longer first day. I don't like to get in to a campsite in the dark, particularly if I have never been there before.

Next winter I am headed to Tucson for what is about a 17-18 hour drive and I will break that into 2 overnights, hopefully with the longer day as the first day. The way back I might do longer stints.

We made a trip to Alaska and drove 600 miles a day, quote Smokey and the Bandit, "A long way to go and a short time to get there." Not anymore about 300 is max. As I have gotten older I do not like to drive after dark.

I think there is a 2 x 2 x 2 rule. Never drive more than 200 miles. Never stay more than 2 days and always check in before 2 pm.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
About 300 for me. I've done much more but I don't like it.

yup, we take back roads most of the time, I prefer around 250 or so, 300 ok, 350 is a max. Like to be set up by 3pm or earlier, relax, enjoy. To me 350 with the trailer is about the same as 800 not towing.

i go by hours.6 is usually my limit.i get hungry and cranky after that.if we're stopping alot in new places to see what's what i'll go longer.

About 300 miles.