RVing in the summer holiday's. HELP?
I have a question mainly to do with the school summer holidays in June/July/August & where we will be in our travels at this time period. We are 2 family's from Australia planning the mother of a trip...
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We have Summer Vacation (mid-May to beginning of September, considering all regional variations) during which families with school age children travel, and we have Holidays during which everyone tries to do their holiday activity. These are Memorial Day ( end of May), Fourth of July (what it says, stretching to nearest weekend) and Labor Day (first Monday in Septempber).
Those three holidays, everything fills up, almost everywhere. Three day weekends, a week eiter side.
During summer vacation, generally, families go off to the "must visit" places that show up in the "before you die" books that now dominate travel planning. Those places will be busy, reservations preferred, for all of the summer vacation peroid. But 95% of the places you might visit or camp will not be on these bucket lists, so you might expect to find someplace, somewhere, away from the prime attractons. Weekends busier than midweek, but not much so, any plsce more than 3-4 hours drive from a major metro area.
During the three holiday weekends, when almost eveyone is trying to be someplace other than home, a camping spot (or hotel room) can be challenging to find. Not as difficult maybe as the two big holidays in China (been there, done that) but getting pretty close, unless you happen to be in the great empty middle of our country, more than a half day's travel from either a metro area or a prime attraction. Half day is the key, about our threshhold travel time commitment for a holiday weekend.
Those three holidays, everything fills up, almost everywhere. Three day weekends, a week eiter side.
During summer vacation, generally, families go off to the "must visit" places that show up in the "before you die" books that now dominate travel planning. Those places will be busy, reservations preferred, for all of the summer vacation peroid. But 95% of the places you might visit or camp will not be on these bucket lists, so you might expect to find someplace, somewhere, away from the prime attractons. Weekends busier than midweek, but not much so, any plsce more than 3-4 hours drive from a major metro area.
During the three holiday weekends, when almost eveyone is trying to be someplace other than home, a camping spot (or hotel room) can be challenging to find. Not as difficult maybe as the two big holidays in China (been there, done that) but getting pretty close, unless you happen to be in the great empty middle of our country, more than a half day's travel from either a metro area or a prime attraction. Half day is the key, about our threshhold travel time commitment for a holiday weekend.
