Traveling from WI to MA with new TT!! HELP!!
We upgraded last year from our pop-up to a beautiful 2015 Sunset Trail 28bh. We just LOVE it! Can't believe we waited so many years to upgrade (13 years in a pop up). We had a wonderful summer camp...
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The problem is, stuff happens! Your timetable doesn't make allowances for stuff that happens, but instead it depends on everything going just right and luck on your side the whole time. Even if life did work out that way, I think you'd be frazzled upon arrival.
If you plan to leave at 4, more likely it'll turn out to be 5 or 5:30. That throws your whole plan off schedule.
A practical plan would assume an average travel speed of around 50 mph, which includes stops for gas and bathroom and food and bathroom and to relieve the sore backside and... you get the picture. So, 1000 miles divided by 50 mph equals 20 hours. How much time have you allotted? It makes no sense to drive faster than 65 (60-62 mph would be better), because trailer tires aren't rated for more speed than that and because it gets a tad unsafe at higher speeds... especially in heavy traffic (of which you'll see plenty) and at night (don't over-drive your headlights! It only takes one deer running across the road in front of you to ruin everything).
DW and I have made the drive from OK to our relatives' homes in MI many, many times. It's just a hair over 1,000 miles. If I can't get out of here by 11:00 am or so on the first day, I know we aren't making it to their place by the second day. It isn't worth pushing the luck, the patience, and the alertness to get there so quickly. After all, it's supposed to be a vacation! Not a torture test.
If you plan to leave at 4, more likely it'll turn out to be 5 or 5:30. That throws your whole plan off schedule.
A practical plan would assume an average travel speed of around 50 mph, which includes stops for gas and bathroom and food and bathroom and to relieve the sore backside and... you get the picture. So, 1000 miles divided by 50 mph equals 20 hours. How much time have you allotted? It makes no sense to drive faster than 65 (60-62 mph would be better), because trailer tires aren't rated for more speed than that and because it gets a tad unsafe at higher speeds... especially in heavy traffic (of which you'll see plenty) and at night (don't over-drive your headlights! It only takes one deer running across the road in front of you to ruin everything).
DW and I have made the drive from OK to our relatives' homes in MI many, many times. It's just a hair over 1,000 miles. If I can't get out of here by 11:00 am or so on the first day, I know we aren't making it to their place by the second day. It isn't worth pushing the luck, the patience, and the alertness to get there so quickly. After all, it's supposed to be a vacation! Not a torture test.
