Good plan to ask before you start...
Question 1: You will have to try it to see what your family can tolerate as a daily road time. If you have good kids and two drivers, it may be much longer than you expect. That will allow a great deal more travel than you might anticipate.
Question 2:
No, you have done road trips, you do not need to repeat that.
I would suggest a very short travel (so you can go back into town and get things and several days in the coach (first night can be in the driveway). Before departure for you first excursion.
Question 3:
A very serious issue. I find campgrounds to be problematic in many locations much of the year. If it is the local travel season, they are often booked in advance, and if it isn't the local travel season (like October in the north), then many are not open at all.
For specifically this reason, you have to get and learn to use a navigator package with the overlay data from the Discovery Owner's site. You can then plan a route, locate EOD (End Of Day), fuel stops and campgrounds or other overnight stops. Streets and Trips, Copilot and Street Atlas will all do this. I have only used S&T and SA, I found I outgrew S&T some years ago, but borrow (if you can) and try them out. When you buy, get the GPS with the package.
Question 4:
We have towed, but now avoid it. We do carry bicycles for short runs and rent a car locally when we need. The fuel we didn't buy to tow pretty much always covers the rental cost, and we never have to un-hook to maneuver the rig.
Question 5:
You have a pretty good list in another post, but don't count on Walmart to have much of anything you need. Camping World is probably the bast nationwide supplier and - guess What? There is an overlay for their locations at the Discovery Owner's
Question 6:
I haven't ever bought such a thing from a broker or dealer that I was not disappointed. If you can, make an arrangement to have the vehicle inspected by a completely independent person or shop. If the seller balks at this, there may be a reason. If the seller does not like the person or shop you have chosen, then that is an indication of who you should go to....
Matt
