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Originally Posted by Rok
Well, yesterday I just finished my most ambitious trip in our 2013 Great West Legend SE. 2200 miles from Seattle to Indianapolis....and then another 2200 miles back. I did this one solo--my first solo trip. ...
The heat was awful, a number of things on the van broke down, and I spent most of the nights in hotels or motels for one reason or another...
... the heat causes a lot of problems and can totally eliminate the pleasure of travel, and in the case of my trip, it almost turned traveling into a nightmare scenario.
I am a little shell shocked from the experience--to the point of re-evaluating RV camping. I'm not going to give it up, but I'm certainly re-evaluating the purpose of having the Class B.
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Dude, I drive each summer from incinerator hell itself, aka Houston Texas, to far northeastern Nova Scotia.
The trip, with the distance being almost 3,000 miles and the nightmarish congestion in the New York - Boston corridor, takes me five days to do safely as a solo driver.
Depending on the prevailing frontal boundaries, 95 degree temperatures can follow me as far north as Portland Maine.
OH HELL YES, this annual trip of mine - and yours which you described here - can become life-changing nightmares if not managed properly.
But it can also be very do-able without high stress if done properly. I've got an older Sprinter than yours, without some of the NCV3 creature comforts, and this is still possible.
So by all means, if you'd like to talk specifics on that kind of venture - questions, points of debate - fire away. I'm not the only one here who can speak directly from experience on those challenges.