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Jimandrod · 03-10-2008, 07:23 PM

When you are taking a trip with your trailer (or MH if that's the case), how many wiles will you travel in a day before you stop for the night?

overlander63 · 03-10-2008, 07:33 PM

We go up to 500 miles in a day, depending on where we are going, when we start, and what time we want to get there.

SafariSS · 03-10-2008, 07:41 PM

When I travel I gotta cover some serious ground. I have schoolage kids, so if I want to venture far away and see new things, I generally have to make tracks when I get time off.

All of that said, I hit 900-1100 mile days generally on a week trip at least on one leg of the trip. Suburban with DVD player keeps all four girls entertained and my Safari 30 tows like a dream. Only have to stop to eat/gas/restroom.

Jimandrod · 03-10-2008, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SafariSS

When I travel I gotta cover some serious ground. I have schoolage kids, so if I want to venture far away and see new things, I generally have to make tracks when I get time off.

All of that said, I hit 900-1100 mile days generally on a week trip at least on one leg of the trip. Suburban with DVD player keeps all four girls entertained and my Safari 30 tows like a dream. Only have to stop to eat/gas/restroom.

When we're on the road we do a tag team thing and switch off every 2 hours - tired or not. We can put in between 800 and 1000 pretty effortlessly.

I'm not sure we'll be doing that with the trailer though. I guess we'll have to wait and see. We don't expect to get the trainer before May and our first few trips will be close by.

overlander64 · 03-10-2008, 08:09 PM

Ideally, I like to travel no more than 300 miles per day. Growing up, our family vacations were of the type "if you hadn't covered 500+ miles per day you had been wasting time" -- I promised myself that I would avoid that ideal and actually enjoy my travels at a leisurely rate. My typical travel day begins at 11:00 a.m. and ends around 5:30 p.m. -- the cruise on my tow vehicle is usually set at 55 MPH, and I try for at least two or three rest stops/souvenir shopping stops each travel day. This summer, my rate of travel may even be a bit slower as I plan to enjoy as much of the top-down weather as possible with my Eldorado convertible tow car.

Kevin

Fyrzowt · 03-10-2008, 08:19 PM

'64,
I like that 300 mile max. That's not something we can always do with our vacation time off. Hopefully after retirement we can take the time to do some of the side trips that we normally blow right on by.
Dave

Jimandrod · 03-10-2008, 08:28 PM

Kevin & Dave - I think that's where we're headed once we take delivery on our Safari. We're going to making the journey to the destination part of the vacation. We're thinking around 250 to 300 miles per day.

elolson · 03-10-2008, 08:35 PM

I go by hours and not miles. We like to keep it at 5-6 hours driving but have stretched to 9 when going down to Mexico or Vegas. I guess we like to think we are relaxing on vacation and that is hard to do putting in monster hours behind the wheel and pulling in after dark.

slowmover · 03-10-2008, 09:02 PM

300 feels like a good day ("300 miles or 3 o'clock"), but 600 is a max I don't plan to exceed . . . and if I did, I would do some very careful trip planning. Past 600 miles in any vehicle is asking for trouble in a days drive. One needs to be out of the vehicle at least 15-minutes every two hours, and about an hour every 4-5 hours. Plug that into available daylight hours and a safe towing speed.

catson4 · 03-10-2008, 09:04 PM

I agree with "ELOLSON", hours not miles. I like to travel from 2 to 6 hours a day. That way I am not "too pooped to pop" when I get where I am going.

ARE WE THERE YET ???

I also use the "old" truckers rule. GET OUT OF THAT RIG EVERY TWO HOURS OR MORE OFTEN>
Even if you just walk around the AS and kick the tires. Check all the attachments, air pressure etc etc etc.... you will be safer in the long run.

JMHO

thecatsandi · 03-10-2008, 09:29 PM

It has been as low as 200 or as much as 700. that 4 to 14 hours. Depends on the type of trip and the weather.

Goin camping · 03-10-2008, 10:15 PM

We generally go til we get there. Assuming there is 800 mi. or less.

ESCAPE POD · 03-10-2008, 11:35 PM

Since I do the driving, I try to spend no more than 5-6 hours of driving time, which leaves about 1.5 hours devoted to resting and meals. At 60 mph, that puts me in the 300-350 mile range. The beauty of pulling your own "home" is that you don't HAVE to make it to the next big town/city if there is an otherwise available and safe place to "drop anchor".

-Jerry

Midamrail · 03-11-2008, 07:28 AM

Our record is 1000 miles from St. Louis to Colorado in 15 hours through the night, and it left us drained and irritable for a day or so afterwards. We once drove back from Florida to St. Louis in an ice storm, and it didn't end well, either, because parking a trailer at 1 AM in an ice storm isn't a good idea.

We find 300-400 miles to be easy and 600 or so to be on that edge of making us cranky, and we're cranky enough when we're working - we don't want to be that way on vacation, too.

eubank · 03-11-2008, 08:01 AM

Looks like I'm the serious minority (up to 200 miles per day). But part of that has to do with geography: We live in the southwest and don't leave the southwest for vacations.

Lynn

Jimandrod · 03-11-2008, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by eubank

Looks like I'm the serious minority (up to 200 miles per day). But part of that has to do with geography: We live in the southwest and don't leave the southwest for vacations.

Lynn

Lynn - That's really true. There are so many good campgrounds in NM, AZ and southern UT ans CO that there is no reason to go anywhere else... and that's just campgrounds. There are hundreds of good spots to boondock too!

We don't plan to go too far out of the southwest once the AS arrives. We have one trip in mind to spend a summer in Upstate NY and another to the Pacific Northwest but other than that we expect to stay within a 250 mile radius of the 4 Corners.

InsideOut · 03-11-2008, 09:39 AM

It depends on whether I am by myself or have Mr.InsideOut as a co-pilot.

When by myself, I only drive 250-300 miles or 6 to 6-1/2 hours...when we both share the driving and we wanna "get there", we switch off every 2 to 2-1/2 hours and will go 500+ miles. We've been known to do as many as 700 in a day (a very long day!) but don't make a habit of that. It's not fun...but sometimes work & commitments dictate.

For the most part we stay within 2-300 miles, close to home - so much to do & see here...International rallies and visits to family are the exception. On the long trips we just stop somewhere when we are done and don't make too much of a destination of the stop. I look forward to the days of leisurely, footloose & fancy free exploring - not having to be constrained as much by a schedule.

Shari

eubank · 03-11-2008, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by InsideOut

... I look forward to the days of leisurely, footloose & fancy free exploring - not having to be constrained as much by a schedule.
Shari

Hear, hear!!!!

Lynn

Fyrzowt · 03-11-2008, 11:04 AM

Last month I delivered an A/S to Missouri. We drove about 700 miles per day - Looonng days, and not our normal mode of travel.
Dave

safari57 · 03-11-2008, 01:03 PM

When I was driving 10-14 hours was no problem. I love being behind the wheel and seeing the sights. Stop to gas up and potty down and back on the road and one leisurely stop for a meal about at the halfway mark to where we were intending to go.

Now that Donna is at the wheel and I'm riding shotgun it seems like 6 to 7 hours is about her maximum with stops for gas, potty down, food, more food, pops, views (so now I know why they have pull outs - so you can stop and see the sights). Thus our range is much smaller for now. I think with the new stereo and some good tunes this summer she'll be able to extend that a bit but I'm not pushing - it's too darned hard to remove duct tape from the mustache.

Barry