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Executive45
Nov 22, 2018Explorer III
Following up on my earlier post with some additional suggestions. I'm assuming you're recently retired. When I retired 10 years ago, our adventure started out we us in "vacation mode". We had places we wanted to see and created a bucket list of sorts. This meant we spent our first year going to those places. Jump on the interstate, go from point A to point B, just like we did when we were working. In this mode 5-6 hours, sometimes more made sense. After the first year, we realized how much of the country we'd missed by traveling this way. By staying off the interstates, taking back roads, you see much much more. You also arrive at your campsite more relaxed, are able to set up camp by 3-4PM and enjoy the campground. We usually don't leave until 11AM as we break camp, walk the dog, eat breakfast, pre-flight the coach and take our showers. I'm a planner, so we usually map out our next stop in advance and make reservations. A 3 hour window allows you to move to your next destination and still be close enough to retrace in the toad if you missed something that you weren't aware existed until you happen to see it while enroute. Our preference is to stay a week or so at each stop which allows you enough time to tour the surrounding area and take a couple of 'do nothing' days to re-generate....Happy traveling...Dennis
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