it can be a slight pain, but we've done all sorts of things without a toad. museum in downtown dallas, beaches, shopping, and tourist traps of all sorts.... there have only been maybe two times when I've had to drop DW and the kids off at some museum or something and drive elsewhere to wait....maybe a time or two when we just didn't do...
and there are times when the large vehicle parking is a bit further away but never has it been unreasonable.
we're vacation type travellers so if stopping at a campground when I know we'll be driving into town later for dinner, or whatever, I'll not even bother to hook up except maybe power for the AC....and we tend to keep the "patio" and chairs to a minimum in those cases so sometimes this turns the rig more into a hotel room than a "camp site"...but not always.
In my thinking, a toad makes total sense for someone parking in a spot for a week or more before moving on....lots of day trips, shopping, exploring, etc....but for a day or three before moving onto the next city not so much.
I've considered setting up DW's car as a toad many times, but seems to me for our style it would be more trouble then it's worth...making our rig significantly longer would make parking while enroute at "cracker barrel" or at any shopping or attraction much more difficult...and make simple overnight stops much more difficult too, forcing us into larger spots, pull through spots, etc... not being able to back up at gas stations...etc....
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