Questions about RVing

Mailmom wrote:
WOW! So much great information! I can see I am planning in the right direction from all your posts. My goal to stay in an area for a week or so before moving on to a new area. Thank you all for the great suggestions and recommendations for me to look up information. I really liked the suggestion to do a 'test' trip. Great idea. We are 'three' when we travel, myself, husband and our adult handicapped son... he is 27 going on 10!.. always happy as long as he has his sprite and the sports page each day. I plan to use a travel trailer that unhooks from our pickup and take the pickup to adventure to places in the area. Tatest I appreciate the comparison of road tripping compared to RVing - good points. We are avid baseball fans - and want to visit and attend ballparks in our travels. Where we live now we are 500 miles from 7 different parks in 5 directions! We usually just road trip and motel when we go to any of those parks, but they are short trips. I really appreciate the suggestions on finding places to camp in different parts of the country. In Utah we can find camping spots most anywhere!

OT--I just wanted to say Bully for you! We traveled with our handicapped son until he was 17. He is much lower functioning than your son, like a 6'2",134-lb butterfly; he has the mental age of about 12-18 months. Still, he sure did love to go camping. We took him on a 6,000-mile cross country RV trip about 6 years ago and I'm so glad we were able to do it. He had a fabulous time. Our last trip was last September. DS is as big and as strong as a normal young adult male. He pulls me right off my feet now. DH is disabled and he can only handle him about 2 days, and only if I am there to help. On our last trip, DS had a major seizure, which was hard to handle in the confines of a TT. DH & I realized that it was DS's last camping trip. Kinda sad, but it is what it is.

Best of luck to you with your son. It sounds like he would really have a great time on your trip!