Rawlins, WY: This is an unusual road trip for the DrsC, we’re doing the suitcase-motel-restaurant thing that many take as normal. Our “normal” is pulling the 5th wheel RV behind the truck and staying in RV parks. While enroute with the RV we’ll often eat supper at restaurants but normally sleep, bathe, lunch and hang out in our own 1 bedroom apartment-on-wheels.
Which do I like better? The RV, we’ve had a series of them continually since 1972. But RVs have start-up labor “costs” in terms of loading before and unloading after. And truck fuel economy drops from maybe 18 mpg solo to 11 mpg when towing.
For a trip where we’re only away 3 nights, and traveling with a third person, it doesn’t make sense to use the RV. So we aren’t, but we do miss it.
Our next RV excursion will be the autumn relocate to CA, when the RV does double duty as lodging and ‘moving van.’ It might not seem like it, but when actually living (not just visiting) in two places there are essentials (paperwork, meds, tools) that are needed on both ends and can’t reasonably be duplicated.
The wealthy who live in multiple places have staff to take care of such things; the merely comfortable (us) schlep their own stuff back and forth twice a year. The RV is a big help with that effort.
