How many trips?

When we first purchased our trailer we took trips that were long weekends of 3-4 days duration. During our first couple years we would probably take around 10-12 of these per year.

Then we started to venture out a little farther from home. We would take fewer trips but the trips were longer in duration, around a week.

The longer trips were good and not as rushed, but I only have four weeks of vacation per year. I need to camp more than four weeks per year! So this year I have reached an agreement with my employer to reduce my work schedule. In addition to my four weeks of vacation I will be taking an additional four weeks of leave without pay. There will be eight weeks of camping in 2018! We will not drive across the country on a multi-week trip. The agreement with my employer is that I limit the extra time off to one week at a time. This is fine because most of the trips will be within our home state of Oregon.

So, as beginning campers we started out with long weekend trips and now we have advanced to eight one week trips during camping season!

Six per year...one to two weeks long...otherwise I work four days a week.

I've always aimed for 12 trips per year. The length of each varies between 4 and 9 days. I'm content if I get at least 6 of those completed.

crazyro wrote:
For those of you who are still working full time and have a family and busy life, what is the average amount of trips you take a year with your TT? I'm just curious. We'd love to take more but we seem to average 8-10 per year.

I have 10 confirmed trips booked this season; every other weekend starting in May and going through August. Here in Colorado, most of the places I want to go don't open until mid-May and close in mid-September. And on both ends, there's a time when they are first come/first served. Also have 1 other planned in season that I can't make reservations (all first come). Might squeeze a couple more in, but also have yard work to do at home the weekends not out!