Miles per day.

[GHOST1750]

How many miles do you normally drive per day and what is the most miles driven ? I normally try to do 400 t0 450 per day. A week ago today I did over 600 miles. Not by choice but due to circumstances, long story thanks to flooding in the Midwest. GPS had me on highway 2 in Kansas and all at once the road was closed at the Missouri River then the fun began.

[Mr_Mark1]

We are not usually in a rush. I like to stick around 250 miles in a day but will go 350 to get to the right destination for the night if needed. I'm not the fast one on the freeway, usually 60-65 mph.

We are leaving this Saturday and our driving miles are 226 the first day, 181 the second and 135 for the third day arriving at our destination for 7 days.

Normally, we will leave about 11:00 AM from a RV park and then we try to arrive by 5:00 PM to the next one. And, that includes having lunch along the way and getting fuel when needed. I don't like to arrive in the dark at a strange campground so in the winter months, we might stop by 4:00 PM.

I like to have my cocktail ready around 5:30 to watch the evening news where ever we end up if we can get a signal (99% of the time we can).

MM.

[GHOST1750]

ppine wrote:
How old are you?
I have been a road warrior since the 1960s. Even in slow old cars a normal day was 600-700 miles. If we were in a hurry 1,000 miles.
Now cars go much faster, but I am near 70 and like 250-300 miles at the most.

I'm 86 years old, only been at it since 2001. Recently switched from diesel to gas.

[DarkSkySeeker]

Towing with the rig in my signature, 250-300 miles per day. Last trip was just over 300 miles and it took us 8 hours including rest stops.

As a kid, my brother and I drove to Montana from San Francisco, non-stop. 1000 miles in 24 hours. I was 17 then.

[rogerddd]

What FloridaRosebud said- 330

[camperdave]

I'm still in the working class (4896 days to go, but who's counting...), so 10-12 hour driving days start and end the annual big trip. If you want to show the kids the country, you gotta cross it!

But my preference would be 300 or so miles. Leave around 9a, arrive by 4p, stop and see things along the way. That's how the middle days of the big vacation are, and most local weekend trips.

[Two_Jayhawks]

Been class A RVing for over 20 years & we are younger than many and not retired. We've had many long drive days over the years but present day my choice is a limit of about 10 hours.

[oldave]

ferndaleflyer wrote:
I to have done the marathon drive of 1000+ miles at a time. Now I think 500 would be about the limit as most trips the last few years have been in the 3-400 mile range. 78 years old so I guess I am supposed to slow down some, maybe.

Interesting that our driving experiences are mirrors and

really funny our age is the same ( 78 ) .

Hey its better than the alternative .

Yes I have slowed down too . In many ways I enjoy slowing down .

[sgfrye]

i prefer no more than 300 miles per day but depends on where we are heading. most of our trips are 2 to 3 hour trips but last september we did an 8 day trip from home in north carolina to niagara falls for 3 days than back down to lancaster co. pa amish country for 3 days. spent 1 night going up to niagara falls in pa. and last night in virginia coming back home. longest stretch on one day was 9 hours from nc to pittsburgh area going north. we have a TT. on the 9 hour day my wife took a 3 hour shift driving.

[Matt_Colie]

Don and Dulce,

In the case that you have not gasped the theme here, Miles per Day is:
What you have to do because of the situation....
What you can do comfortably....

Our antique coach is very comfortable to drive, even still, we find 8~9 hours is plenty in any one day. In times past, when we had to do more, we did more. We also frequently co-drive. Having a real navigator in the right seat takes a lot of the load off the driver.

The important thing to always remember is that driving tired is an easy way to get dead.

Matt

[ppine]

Anyone can go fast. Going slowly is the learned skill that takes practice.

[ferndaleflyer]

I to have done the marathon drive of 1000+ miles at a time. Now I think 500 would be about the limit as most trips the last few years have been in the 3-400 mile range. 78 years old so I guess I am supposed to slow down some, maybe.

[DutchmenSport]

Not a MH, but TT and now 5er driving. Over the years the time on the road has changed and it also depends on the circumstances, length of trip, and length of stay.

In the past, when the kids were still little, we'd travel for hours on end to reach the destination point. Long driving days. When you are young yourself, you can do this.

When the kids no longer camped with us because they started their own lives with jobs and college and military service, and everything else, my wife and I learned to slow down. The "rush, rush, rush" wasn't so important any more. The entire travel event was just as important as the destination point. In other words, the "journey" was just as fun (if not more) than the actual destination point.

So, for those week long or 2 week long trips, we pick the end point destination spot, and then break the number of stops along the journey so we don't have to spend more than 6 hours actual drive time on the road. This built in nice cushion for stops along the way, restaurants, and side attractions that grab our attention.

As we've gotten older yet, that drive time is now about 4 hours, because we just enjoy monkeying around so much on our drive. We stop a lot. We'll drive 30 minutes and find another interesting land mark, another interesting restaurant, or need to stop for the dogs to potty (or us). We stop at almost every rest area on the interstates, just to stretch a bit, gab another snack and drink, use the facilities, walk the dogs and then move on.

Now granted, we do have exceptions also. April 2019 we traveled from South Carolina back to Indiana in one stretch and drove through the night because something came up and we needed to get back home. So, we can do it if we need to, we just choose not to if we don't have to.

The older we get, the more we slow down and enjoy the journey and the destination points seem to get closer and closer now.

[dodge_guy]

I've done 14 hours in a day, that's a lot and I've only done it once. I try and keep it between 8-10 max. But with a 2 week time for vacation you have to pack he miles in to get to where you want to be!

[rgatijnet1]

We do not have any set schedule so we drive to the next destination. It may be 50 miles away or it may be 600 miles away. The point is we very seldom spend very much time in any RV park so after we have seen the sights in that area, we are ready to move on. We scan the maps and the internet to find points of interest that we have not gone to before, and then head there. We prefer the back roads instead of the interstates so it is more difficult to determine how many miles we will travel each day. Also when on the back roads, the number of RV parks may decline and for that reason we may travel farther before we stop.
We travel a lot during the Winter so in most cases our only hook up at an RV site is to plug in the electric. we use our water tanks and waste tanks until they need to be emptied. The rest of the set up can be done from the driver's seat so it doesn't bother me to get in after dark or during a rain/snow storm.
When traveling in the Great Plains area of the country, the winds usually pick up fairly early in the day so we hit the road before sun up and then find a place to stop when I get tired of fighting the winds.
The advantage of an RV is that in most cases you can decide how far or how little you want to travel each day.

[oldave]

We used to drive a 1000 mi to get home at midnight Sunday to go to
work Monday . That was crazy but we managed .
No more of that I'm way to old now but still usually drive 300 to 400.
Here in Tx 3 to 4 doesn't get you very far from home