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I'm about to head out on a big adventure. Really big, like 30 feet big, like sleeps six, I think big. Like drive through parking spaces big. Yup, I'm getting in a motor home. My road tripping companions and I, buzzing from our successful three week adventure from Seattle to Chicago and back, are doing it again only, you get the picture, this time, we're going big. Really big.
I would be lying if I said I'm not nervous. The rig, good lord, it's huge. Our last trip was in a minivan. And while I love the idea of bringing home with me where ever I go, this thing is apparently the size of road tripper K's apartment. Think about that. We're going to drive down the road in K's apartment.
The first thing I did when I learned about this trip was look up driving tips because, well, of course. I'm happy with have a party of three, that means a driver and one person at each corner, hopefully waving bright orange safety flags. I see that some of these big rigs have back up cameras, though I hope never to be driving in reverse, forward, always forward! I also hope never to drive through a narrow city center, parking garage, supermarket parking lot, oh, you name it. Open highway to campsite, that's what I'm hoping for. I'm sure the truth will be very different and twice as terrifying. If you find yourself behind a 30 foot rig at 30 mph in a 70mph zone, be kind, it's probably me.
Truth be told, I've long be jealous of/fascinated by the motorhome crowd. Their self contained yet nomadic lives look ideal to me, though I'm sort of stunned by the range of scale. I'd be totally content with the classic VW camper bus, but at a Campground in Cody, Wyoming this summer, I saw a rig so huge as to be frightening, pulling -- I kid you not -- a Hummer as the buzz around town vehicle. Someone filled in the lines on that picture in such a way as to leave a carbon footprint the size of a small refinery, but believe it or not, I get the intent.
The motorhome dwellers seem to be prolific bloggers -- hey, they have a comfy couch from which to blog every night! They're all over the planet, too.
Here's a newish blog --Peter and Kay on Tour -- by some travelers in a motorhome that's closer in scale to something I can imagine living with -- and how great does this trip sound?
We have decided to start with a five week sojourn to France, as we know it quite well and are comfortable there. Crossing from Dover late afternoon, our first stop will be just outside Calais and from there we will go wherever the mood - or more importantly the weather - takes us. That's the joy of motorhoming.
And here's another newish one, darned cute too -- Live the Adventure.
This blog will show you how you can embark on your own RV journey, whether that would be starting with a short weekend getaway or leaping into the lifestyle full-time. I'll share with you how our dream lifestyle came to be, how we chose our motor home, cost involved in our RV lifestyle, how we homeschool our kids while traveling and how we all manage to keep our sanity!
Odel and Laurie have been traveling since 2003, though their blog -- Semi-True Tales of Our Life on the Road -- goes back to (only) 2007. On this post, they catalog the list of things they decided they had to have when they bought their rig -- and the options they'd now consider must have or okay to go without.
This stuff is totally the tip of the iceberg on the motorhome blogs -- check out this list from Geeks on Tour, for starters. All these stories, all these travelers, roaming around in their moving homes -- I'm excited to see what that's like, first hand.
Pam blogs about travel and other adventures at Nerd's Eye View.
