Hello all friends,
Sorry that I was not able to response to many of your advice in the last few days since I was at places that cell data is not available until now. Since too many good advice came through. I do recognize and thanks for all of your input.
I guess that since this is my first "extra long" trip and never have the opportunity to get familiar with boondocking at Walmart, rest stop, etc.
On this trip that I began almost a week ago and had the opportunity to boondock 3 nights so far and 2 nights at a campground. I start to get a hang of the boondocking. For the boondocking, one night was at the VLA in NM tourist parking and two nights were at the interstate Welcome Center. Both of the night at the Welcome Center, I was able to pull to the curb side so I could have one of the slides out without interfering with any people walking or traffic. For the next 50 nights, I already had the reservation at various places. I may squeeze in few more nights boondocking on my way back home in late June.
Like many of you said on this topic, once I get a hang of travel and boondocking, I will be more relax on the planning.
On the next trip, like some of your advice, I will combine some of the reservation where necessary like California, etc. and may have some extra days in between reservation for cushion.
As far the Alaska trip, I do know that there are few RV tour groups that go there, however, since my wife and I both are photographers, we need to have more flexible in time to be able to stop along the way as we see fit to photograph the sceneries since I heard a lot of the good photography locations along the way. The experience of boondocking will come very handy on the Alaska trip next year.
On the Walmart Parking, I do agree that we should keep the limit stay at Walmart as overnight and should not leave the RV unattended at all. If I would like to sightseen or visit a certain town on my way, I would rather book couple nights at the RV park then drive the tow car. This way I would know for sure that the I will not taking any parking space at any business to benefit my own self.
On this trip, on my way back from Silverton Colorado to Texas, I will drive through Taos and Santa Fe, NM. Since the wife would like to visit the two towns, I am in the process of booking two nights at each town. This makes us more comfortable to leave the RV in place that secure and comfort enough to extend the slides and full use of the RV. That is what we bought the RV for in the first place.
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Tam & Ha from Willis, TX
2016 Georgetown XL 352QS
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee
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