2022 Trip Planning- Advice for Newbies

30 years of RVing without a surge protector. If you want to run your AC with a generator, you'll need 3,000+ watts. High end = Honda or Yamaha. Decent = Preditor or Champion. A lot of areas (Utah during spring and fall) get full fast, especially near national parks. Gotta have reservations well in advance for those areas. I just fill my water tank before I leave. I usually boondock on the first night of travel. Driving time should be limited...stop and smell the roses. It's those little out of the way gems that people miss that you might remember for the remainder of your life. Got a hobby? Check your route for the obscure towns that have something you are in to. My wife loves to quilt. Hamilton Missouri is nothing but a quilter's paradise. Yea...she made me go there for an entire day, even though it was 2 hours in the opposite direction of our travel. These are the things that make a real vacation more memorable. Slow down. You are retired now. No more having to be home on Monday to go to work. That 4 day weekend? Toss it. Take 7-8 days now.