had a nice visit with childhood friends up near Lewes Delaware, they live about ten miles from the coast.
We spent hours going over the trip route, I had taken printouts with me, say 500 mile increments, and we made notes on them about parks to see
or a museum worth being the "shore excursion" for the day. My friends are seasoned travelers who have done this at least five times.
A really good museum and zoo are on the priority list, already picked the San Diego Zoo. And it can't be seriously inner city due to parking the rv.
Plus a car museum or something car related. Might do several of them...
Am passing to West of Los Angeles, no desire to see Hollywood....and now I'm told I can take my rv over the Golden Gate Bridge so for sure I'm doing that unless
there's a bad storm or wind. In which case I might stay at the last stop for another day. Learned to do that with my boat going down the Intracoastal. Stopped at 23 marinas which all have the same connections as rv's. Except they pump your black water out of your boat for you. If you are careful, the rv way is less messy in my mind.
Just remember to store up some soapy dishwater or shower water in the grey water tank, so you have something to wash out the hose after the black tank has been emptied.
Each day I have to eat lunch of course, and while the rv will have a lot of food in it, thankfully I like to cook, I still want to
find some fun restaurants. Even if I have to go in the Texas Steak House for lunch instead of dinner. I can't eat a giant steak anyway.
Unless they allow doggie bags...then I'll bring back as much as I can. It's like those 45 dollar buffets in Los Vegas, I can't eat that much anymore without getting seriously full and uncomfortable, so unless I can take it home, and I'm pretty sure you can't in a buffet (?), I might not tackle the most expensive ones, since it's just bad value. Unless I sought out the most expensive thing they brought out and made a pig of myself, but I'd rather eat what I want...a sampling of many things.
And no baked potatoes...
Later this week I hope to post the first section, I'm working linearly here, and it will be a little different because I've already gone down the Natchez Parkway and I've already gone to Nashville and saw a show. That and anything loud is off limits right now with my tinnitus, still having problems with it so no drag races, much as I would like...
And I'm also headed to Florida this winter to visit friends and will go partly up the Panhandle on the way home.
So I start with standard rv routing, then add in my waypoints which are campgrounds, choosing them in the 200-400 mile range, and usually in the lower end of that.
And then I start finding interesting places to go along that route, knowing I want to go to lunch each day or see a site. If it's raining, maybe I'll do neither, but at least I'll know what's the most interesting thing to see if the weather is nice. I am surely not walking any zoo in the rain...
I always have the option of pulling off into a rest stop, if reasonably level sending out the slide even partway so easier to get into bathroom, mattress is a bit of
poor engineering, but it's how they jammed a walk around queen in a rv this size. And then make myself a sandwich for lunch with a cup of coffee and be on my way in 20 minutes somewhat rested. This rv is easier to drive than my first Winnebago/Itasca class A gasser. Rides better and is quieter. And for sure fits in places better, which
was the whole idea, and is a foot lower in height. So it seems pretty zippy to me. Even accelerates faster than I expected. All good. Now maybe if I kept my foot out of it and annoyed a whole bunch of folks behind me as I leisurely gained speed, I bet my mpg would get to 15. I haven't tested yet what it will do at a steady 65mph, which is the fastest I will drive it unless I'm passing on a four lane. And if the camera shows a bunch of cars behind me at a light, well, I'll try not to disappoint...
