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Caravanning
Yahoo Message Number: 57378
Has anyone ever gone the caravaning route?--one driver in the MH and one in the toad. We could probably do that for a couple of years before the cost of the gas equaled the cost of installing all the tow equipment.


For all the negative reasons one reads about towing, to say nothing of the expense of the equipment, and the vagaries of the towed vehicle, we have always chosen to caravan.

The benefit is that the smaller vehicle can scoot around to scout, block for lane changes, and just generally be more mobile.

It also provides some "apartness" in a world of RV'ing "togetherness"!  ;->

Virtual hugs,

Judie On the road in - Mount Vernon, Washington
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Caravanning
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57382
That is precisely why we would never do it except in an emergency.  I have done it a couple of times to get up extremely steep grades in the mountains.
Other than that, caravanning would really spoil the RV lifestyle for us.  I couldn't even imagine a trip for example from California to New England with my wife driving the toad.  What would be the point?  Might as well fly and rent an RV on the other end.  The fun of travel is to share in the sights on the way.  Doing it by cel phone or radio is very cold and disassociated.
Plus, one of the main advantages of RV travel is that the spouse can use the potty underway, or make lunch, get a cold drink out of the reefer, etc.
When I see people doing this on the highway I just pity them.

Dick
Caravanning
Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57414
Well, Dick, each to his own.  We are retired and travel short distances infrequently.  We have very good Motorola two-way radios, not just walkie-talkies, and find communication to be entirely satisfactory.

As for using the potty, making lunch, or raiding the icebox while hurtling down the highway in a large metal box, well I won't comment on that.

Virtual hugs,

Judie On the road in - Mount Vernon, Washington


That is precisely why we would never do it except in an emergency.  I have done it a couple of times to get up extremely steep grades in the mountains.
Other than that, caravanning would really spoil the RV lifestyle for us.  I couldn't even imagine a trip for example from California to New England with my wife driving the toad.  What would be the point?  Might as well fly and rent an RV on the other end.  The fun of travel is to share in the sights on the way.  Doing it by cel phone or radio is very cold and disassociated.
Plus, one of the main advantages of RV travel is that the spouse can use the potty underway, or make lunch, get a cold drink out of the reefer, etc.
When I see people doing this on the highway I just pity them.
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Caravanning
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57417
We are also retired, and as a ham radio operator I have more communication equipment than one person ought to have.  We would have NO problem communicating by radio if that is what we chose to do.  It's still  a case of the two parties might as well be on the opposite sides of the country.
It's just not the same as being together inside the same vehicle.  I agree that if only short trips are made (50 miles or less) it really doesn't matter a great deal.  When you get up to several thousand miles it's a different animal.  Like you say, to each his own.  After 50 years of marriage I still like her right beside me.

Dick
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Caravanning
Reply #4 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57418
We just ran up our credit card getting the towbar & brake thingie put on our new Jeep.
Can't imagine not traveling with John next to me. I couldn't 'back-seat-drive' with quite the same intensity on the CB that I can in person. ;^)
 Besides, if I have to drive the Jeep, how can I take a nap? I mean, reeeally...

Ilene
In Oregon

2004 26.5MB 'Red Zoe'

Towing 2000 Green 'Zeke The Jeep'
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Caravanning
Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57419
There is a certain amount of risk involved in walking around in a moving vehicle, but if we were to never accept that risk we might as well take out all the restrooms in tour buses and bungee the tour directors down in their seats.  Of course there is always the retired couple who purchased a new motor home and turned on the cruise control and went to bed.  Didn't work out too well for them!  :-)

Dick
 
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Caravanning
Reply #6 –
Yahoo Message Number: 57424
I agree.  We got this Lazy Daze to TRAVEL and travel we do, we just hit 70,000 miles on our 2001 and it was in the 4th country on Tortuga's travel list.  I have no problem taking a nap on the couch or in the overhead bed, going to the bathroom, making lunch and even cooking dinner while we travel.  I wander around all the time while we are going down the road.  I would not like it at all if I had to drive the jeep separately all the time and it would get very expensive as well. Our tow bar and brake have long ago paid for themselves, even when gas was cheaper.  Plus, Mimi can't read a map if her life depends on it and I can't read maps and drive at the same time so we would be stopping all the time to figure out where we are. Bleh! Then there is the music, we couldn't blast the music and sing along together if we were in different cars.  I don't know, it just sounds like work not fun.  We are having fun and it is an important part of why we bought a motorhome and not a trailer.

Jonna in Tortuga, 2001 Teal RB find us here http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1013 '