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As full time travelers, the “so, where y’all headed?” questions has to be one of our favorites of all time. So, for real, thanks for stopping by and asking it.
Here’s the answer.
We put together a Google Map to help us keep our answer up-to-date. Right now, it’ll show you:
- Parks we’ve already visited since hitting the road in November 2021 (in green)
- Our top 10 favorite destinations so far (in blue)
- Places we’re actively working on incorporating into our route plan (in maroon)
Isn’t this map super cool? If you’re having a hard time viewing it, try it on desktop! It’s free and user-friendly to create your own maps, too, using this link.
But we know this world has so many wonderful places to explore and we certainly don’t know about them all! If there’s a spot you think we wouldn’t want to miss, we hope you’ll get in touch.
And, while you’re here, we figured we’d respond to a few related questions we get every so often:
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Other Questions We Get
How many miles do you put on your truck?
I had to call Mitch over to help me write the answer to this question. He does all of the driving and maintenance, so even though I definitely keeps tabs on it, Mitch is the expert.
In our first eight months on the road, we put a total of 12,000 miles on the truck. That’s about 1,500 miles per month if we continue traveling at our current pace.
(We won’t continue traveling at that pace, though. We plan to slow down a bit as we head out west because we’ve never been there.)
How long do you stay at each park you visit?
(This answer will also change based on the places we’re visiting and how familiar we are with them.)
While we were traveling in the South, we typically only camped for one week at any given campground. The longest we ever stayed in one spot while visiting Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida was two weeks.
I work regular business hours, so in order for me to truly experience a park (especially a large one!) we really need to stay for at least one weekend.
As we get to some of the bigger parks out west, our guess is that we’ll need at least two weeks to really experience the places we’re visiting as a family.
How do you decide where to go?
This is another fun question. Unfortunately, the answer is: it depends.
If we need to be somewhere at a specific time (i.e. trips with extended family, work conferences, etc.) then we tend to make most of our decisions based on the most efficient and interesting ways to get between where we are and where we’re going in the timeframe we have to get there.
If we don’t have an anchoring event coming up in the future, then we have more flexibility to choose where to go based on destinations that we want to see. We prefer to avoid RV resorts in favor of state and national park campgrounds, so we plan our trips based around those destinations.
We use two main tools to help us find awesome campgrounds and plan our routes:
- Campendium
- Roadtrippers
How long are y’all going to be traveling for?
This is always a fun question to answer, too. And, if we’re being honest, the answer has changed a few times since we started.
Here’s how we’re thinking about it for right now: we’re going to travel until we’ve gotten to experience all the places that we want to see. Right now, it’s looking like that’s going to be another 4 years or so.
But the kids will outgrow our current camper before then. So, if we want to travel that long, we’ll have to look into purchasing a larger RV.
And we just aren’t sure about doing that. Plus, we’re all looking forward to gardening and chicken-keeping again someday. And we all still want to build a yurt or a cabin in the mountains. So we’ll see.
