I know I’m late to this discussion but have to say that we totally agree with you. We love to travel, but hate staying in hotels and eating in restaurants all the time, and I will no longer fly. So an RV is the perfect choice for us. All the comforts of home, sleeping in your own bed that you know doesn’t have bedbugs and is the correct type for you, clean bathroom you can use anytime, eating food that is prepared by someone trustworthy and the changing scenery outside your windows are all high on our list.
You don’t have to spend a lot of money on a rig either. Our first one cost $5000 and we totally got our money’s worth from it. Traveled all over the central US, took the grandkids camping, made lots of great memories with them.
It is my favorite way to travel. If you are careful and do your homework before buying you can get a good quality rig that isn’t going to cost you a lot of money to use.
OH, one last thought. $100.00 hotel rooms are on the low end in quality in any area that is touristy, you would need to spend upwards of $250.00 to get anything that has anything close to a spa.
Sounds like we are on the same page.
I know that to many women a real vacation is sitting on a beach and being served tropical drinks. Not for me. That would be nice for about one day.
When my kids were young — 4 boys born in the space of less than 6 years — camping was perfect. They could run around and not disturb people in the next room, and we would eat outside at the picnic table, where spills mattered to nobody but the grateful ants.
At that point in my life, that was the kind of vacation I could afford, but it was great. And my children learned so much
Now, in my golden years, I could afford the hotel, and we have done hotels when camping is not an option, for example, a week in NYC last March. Big highlight of that trip was following the George Washington Trail through Manhattan. Learned so much about GW’s time in NY. And I was so surprised to learn of how much of the great man can still be glimpsed there. (I am currently obsessed with learning about him and visiting places he had been.)Wonderful!
But I digress... :)
Happy Trails to you.