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Another reason I'm glad I kept my Minnesota residency. Not only because I will come every year regardless, to see family, but insurance rates were lower than Arizona.
Another reason I'm glad I kept my Minnesota residency. Not only because I will come every year regardless, to see family, but insurance rates were lower than Arizona.
Hey meo I enjoy reading your posts.
Just maybe something to check out. I am former Mn resident and a nomad. I found out about South Dakota residency and switched over.
They have a really easy system that encourages nomads.
I drove to Souix Falls and Set up a mail permanent address with a company there. That costs me $150.00 a year and they hold your mail and give you the address. They help register your car and plates.
Stay one night in a hotel. Take the hotel receipt to the DMV and get a license right there. Use your new address which they accept.
My car insurance is less. Registration for car is less. Medicare plan is less. No state income tax.
I guess a lot of Rvers use SD. Anyway Im happy. Maybe Minny works best for you. Just an idea to check it out.
Safe travels and enjoy the rest of the season in Minnesota.
I've heard of the South Dakota solution and do think about it. Right now I'm staying with MN because of my doctors.
That is a factor not often discussed.
After years of bouncing around medical establishments, I found a doctor I really-really like. I also have a vet who has been a wonder at treating the medical conditions of my dogs. They are a breed whose genetic defects include heart/respiratory problems. The town has a compounding pharmacy for their meds.
I'd fulltime in a red hot minute, but sometimes you get tied to a place that doesn't make it easy to domicile and RV. We compromise by using it as a winter spot, owning a condo. That came in real handy with the COVID lockdown. We have several RV friends who were in a tight spot, resorting to mooch docking in family driveways for as long as they were allowed.
Escapees is a good source for details of the easiest states from which to domicile. However, sometimes the circumstances don't line up.
the OP, FWIW, was spot on. going to the hershey rv show next month and the dealers are taking order for 2023 as 2022 are sold out unless shifts are added at the plants.
the bright side is, I can get about 2x for my class C than I could have when the OP started this...
The other thing that has pushed many to buy RVs in the past year is the sky-high price of motel/hotel accommodations. In addition, you can prepare many or most meals in an RV instead of eating at restaurants or buying fast food, and the potential for cost savings really adds up.
The other thing that has pushed many to buy RVs in the past year is the sky-high price of motel/hotel accommodations. In addition, you can prepare many or most meals in an RV instead of eating at restaurants or buying fast food, and the potential for cost savings really adds up.
I wouldn't do it with cost savings in mind. Gas mileage, park or RV park costs, and such. Depends on what you do. I like having the convenience of all my stuff with me, ability to stay clean and such (vs camping), I DO like having my type of food with me, and..... our dog goes everywhere with us.
I can dry camp for a week, but after that I prefer hook ups. We had to buy lots of stuff once we got the 5th wheel, like generators, etc.
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We just came home after almost 6 months on the road in our 5th wheel camper. It was cheaper than staying in hotels/motels would have been, but that's not to say it was cheap. We stayed in 38 different campgrounds and covered almost 8,000 miles towing (Florida to California on a southern route up to Washington state and then back along a northern route).
We spent $2,600 on fuel and $5,800 on campgrounds which comes out to about $50 a night. That sounds like a bargain compared to hotels, but consider we also invested $80,000 on our camper/truck rig and it's depreciating (in normal times, maybe not so much right now ) all the time regardless if we use it or not.
I wouldn't know how to begin figuring how much we spent on food in the camper versus what we would have spent on restaurants, but that would add up. Also, insurance and a pile of other small expenses would affect the final calculation.
IMO it's kind of a wash. If you want a camper and you're going to actually use it a lot, it can make sense versus hotels. You will need to tie up significant money in the equipment, though, with no guarantee how much you'll get back when you're ready to move on.
One last thing, I don't see any shortage of RVs for sale. We must have passed hundreds of RV dealers and all of them seem to have a good amount of inventory sitting in plain view.
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We just came home after almost 6 months on the road in our 5th wheel camper. It was cheaper than staying in hotels/motels would have been, but that's not to say it was cheap. We stayed in 38 different campgrounds and covered almost 8,000 miles towing (Florida to California on a southern route up to Washington state and then back along a northern route).
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We spent $2,600 on fuel and $5,800 on campgrounds which comes out to about $50 a night. ..
Thx for the detailed info,
Would be nice to see an estimate for average cost per day and cost per mile for different RV classes, then each type of traveler could plug in their preference and miles / day / month. Is there such a website?
I do this with a spreadsheet that includes RV types, (campervan to Class A) as well as side-by-side comparison for car / hotel, and Fly-rent-drive. (Hitchhiking as per youth years always wins on cost).
$2600 for fuel during 6 months 8000 miles seems pretty reasonable. ($14 / day). I seem to often spend 5x / day that much in my 20mpg RV. I need to quit wandering around and learn to stay off the road.
Congrats on your safe trip and return home. Diagonally /circular across USA lower 48 is a long and interesting trip. Glad you could cover that distance during Covid.
$2600 for fuel during 6 months 8000 miles seems pretty reasonable. ($14 / day). I seem to often spend 5x / day that much in my 20mpg RV. I need to quit wandering around and learn to stay off the road.
Congrats on your safe trip and return home. Diagonally /circular across USA lower 48 is a long and interesting trip. Glad you could cover that distance during Covid.
I figure it costs us $70 in fuel each time we hitch the truck and move the camper a couple hundred miles. Moving days are expensive so we like to stay several nights at any campground worth staying in. We have a diesel F350 that averages 12 MPG when towing and maybe 20 MPG unladen on the highway.
This is our travel map from this year. The circled numbers are the number of nights at each stop.
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) all the time regardless if we use it or not. 
