jimroach wrote: I have been reading motorhome magazine, I have learned about a lot of destinations that are within a days drive of me, which lead me to see how others plan their itineraries, or do most of you just wing it?
Are there any other magazines any one uses for destination ideas. I know the States have web sites and books.
we don't have real destinations, just yet. like from the southeast way over to Oregon or anything fancy like that yet.
our destinations is usally the beach. we are water people and right now due to kiddo and work situation, we take long weekend trips to the beach. And we take our longer 10-12 day weeks at the beach also.
one drive. straight thru. not much to see.
I am interested in this thread also and will bookmark what people post.
Never have to search for destinations, just search for time so we can cross them off our mental list. We want to go to Yellowstone, The Ozarks, Virginia, etc, etc. The list gets two or three new destinations added for every one we take off.
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We plan around grandkids, golf courses, or isolation and head out accordingly. Usually we will stay somewhere near a golf course we like or want to play.
I also stop at the border rest area as I enter each state. I get a chance to stretch my legs, and check out the brochures for commercial places I may want to see while in the state. They're usually not listed on a state's tourism site. Mostly tourist traps, but the brochures are free, and there might be something I want to see.
Retired and visiting as much of this beautiful country as I can.
I have 3 major trips I want to do as soon as I retire (unfortunately 16 months away
One is to Los Angeles. One is to Yellowstone. and one is to the Canadian Maritimes and Maine.
I already have the major planning done for the LA trip. Some fine tuning still needs to be done. Once I more or less settled on a route, I added places that we want to see. Places like Vicksburg National Battlefield, The Alamo, National Museum of the Pacific War @ Fredricksburg, TX, Carlsbad Caverns, Tombstone, AZ, Hoover Dam/Las Vegas, 2 or 3 days in Death Valley, then nearly a week in the "belly of the beast" LA. There a bunch of things I want to see and do in LA. I understand about traffic there, but I'll just have to deal with it.
From LA, I plan to head to Regan's presidential library and museum. Then through Santa Barbara, and up to Hearst Castle. Weather permitting, (and I'll be in CA to early) I'd like to visit Yosemite. If I can't do Yosemite, we'll turn back east and retrace as much of US 66 as possible. Then stop outside Detroit to visit our daughter, and then home.
The beauty of being retired is we can add and subtract stuff as we go along, since we do not have a deadline to meet to get back home.
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CincyGus wrote: Never have to search for destinations, just search for time so we can cross them off our mental list. We want to go to Yellowstone, The Ozarks, Virginia, etc, etc. The list gets two or three new destinations added for every one we take off.
Loved Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. DW had never been. We spent about a week there and still shake our heads that we didn't see everything
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Arizona is great for all types of RVing. We typically use the national forest maps looking for trails in the wilderness and roads that are not too rough to get us to the trailhead. But we don't always go out to the wilderness areas.
This last weekend we visited the Pima Air and Space Museum, an impressive collection, then drove a short jaunt over to the East Saguaro National Park and visited the beautiful visitor center.
We had not planned to stop at Colossal Cave Pima County park, had not even heard of it. But when we passed the sign, we looked it up on the Internet (Verizon mifi) and it was perfect for the night. There were few campers. It was the first park we visited that locked the gates from 5-8 though. We had no intention of leaving overnight so it did not bother us. We counted only 3 other campers that night and we were all at least 1/4 mile away from each other. We noticed signs for the Arizona Trail so I pulled out the Arizona Trail guidebook from a collection we have in the RV and read a description of the segment.
The one interesting thing was that the staff and the signage were very conservative about turning radius for RV's. There was a pretty good asphalt road all the way to a large camping area and we were cautioned that we could not turn around if we went down the road! We camped in a nice spot just before the sign that said do not enter if more than 20' in length and walked down the rest of the road thinking it was a pretty good road and there were several turn offs. Then there was a sign on the road up to the Cave that said stop and turn around if you are over 30'. But when we got up to the parking area, there was BUS parking! There were several tour buses parked up there so any RV could easily have made it to the parking lot and turned around. Thought that was odd.
The next day we visited Sabino Canyon for a good hike and then came home. We had planned to go up into the Santa Catalina mountain national scenic area for our overnight but we had already camped there once. We could do something like this in Arizona every weekend for several years and never visit the same place twice I bet!
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