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Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #25 –
I'm a put it in the gas tank sort of guy.   IE tax the gas, that would spread out the cost to all users and pay off the bonds used to build the bridges.    Sadly that would do away with the toll booths and folks working for the toll booths systems. 
I always wonder about the amount of gas wasted sitting in line or slowing down and speeding up at the tolls booths.   That's not even counting the environmental costs .....

Oh well back to my morning cup of coffee.
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Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #27 –
We do exactly what you're doing and have a Kia Soul, too...a manual that *can* be flat towed.  If you have an automatic, you'll either have to trailer it or use a tow dolly.

We were going to get the RV and car set up so we could tow the Soul, but after calculating what it would cost to drive the Soul south in the fall and north in the spring (we're not fulltime, but snowbirds), for what it would cost to set up a towing system including a brake for the car (in the $3,000-$5,000 range), I can drive it back and forth for 8 - 12 years based on the average MPG the car gets and the average we've spent per gallon.

Would it be nice to travel in the same vehicle?  Sure, but we can keep in touch via walkie talkies.  An added benefit is that we each like to listen to different things on our Sirius radios, so......    :)
Linda Hylton
Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #28 –
I didn't know that so many of you are in the bay area! Where are you?

Lisa
1991 22' LD Multi-Plan
Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #29 –
Lisa,
We are jumping topics here. 
Many of us are in the SF Bay Area.  I am in San Jose, and I have detected others in Campbell, San Francisco, Hayward(ish), Oakland, etc.  Most must store their rigs away from home. You and I are exceptions being able to store them at our S&B home.
Rodney
1988 Mid Bath
Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #30 –
Lisa, while I am a native NoCalifornian, I have not lived there for years but have much family in various Bay Area and Sacramento area locations so visit there on occasion. I'm always on the lookout for LD's but rarely see them in the Bay Area.
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
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Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #31 –
HiLola,

With any luck we Bay Area folks are on the road and not at home. That’s why you don’t see us 😂🚐💨
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Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #32 –
Lazy Bones 2
What an adorable emoticon after your post.
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Re: Chasing (following behind an RV) and San Francisco Bay Area Bridge Tolls
Reply #33 –
“Lazy Bones 2
What an adorable emoticon after your post.”

That’s me high tailing it out of town on an adventure 😊
Daughter of the first Lazy Bones
Hitting the road on my own and with a friend 🚐 while reporting back to the Lazy Bones at home 🛋

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