How We Plan our Travels

Dubravka Romano asked do we have a plan for travel or do we wake up every morning and say “where shall we go today?”

Currently, a little bit of both. We have been touring for less than a month, so how we make our plans is still in flux. We do have targets, for example we want to be in Moab for the Moab Folk Festival from November 5 to November 8, will be in Austin for Christmas, and need to find some time to return to Houston to repair Deb’s BoBo. With a goal in place, we start to fill in. Major considerations are (a) a location we can reach in a day, generally no more than 300 miles away and (b) can we find a park with an open spot. As we are heading west to Moab, our next stops will be in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Once we are in Albuquerque we will pick our next stops. Not sure if we will travel through Colorado along the eastern or western Rockies. We do try to make reservations at least a day in advance - learned that traveling through Europe

A few things we have picked up over the past three weeks.

• Do not plan to go out at the end of a travel day. Driving 15 tons is physically tiring. After setting up the camper, all you want to do is veg.
• Two nights is too short a period for a stop if you want to visit a location. After a travel day, there is generally a need to do some kind of general maintenance like clean the trailer or wash clothes.
• Mondays are excellent travel days. Many museums or other sites of interest are not open on Monday. Also interstate traffic is less busy than on the weekend.
• We have taken heed to the RVers adage given to us by Gus Sterneman and Kevin Hedgecock – “Out by 10, in by 4.”