We are 4 weeks into a 6 week trip and currently near Burlington, VT. We planned this trip in March and made all the reservations then including tickets for the COG Railway up to the summit of Mt Washington. Many years ago on a family vacation with the kids doing a seat of the pants thing broke me from the spontaneous stuff. No RV then and started looking for a room at 6 PM and everyplace we stopped for over a hundred miles was booked. At 2 AM came across a place that rented by the hour from the looks of it. Got a room and did not even take our clothes off. Up at 5 AM and back on the road. Granted with the RV there are options like truck stops, Walmart, etc., but being an OCD engineer I tend not to be spontaneous.
Many folks do not like KOA campgrounds but we tend to use them a lot. They vary all over the map from dumps to downright nice places. We just left the Twin Mountain KOA in New Hampshire and it was a great campground. The reason we like KOA so much is you can log into the website a year ahead of time and reserve a site without ever talking to a person. We are up very early and have made reservations at 4 AM. Many campgrounds require you to fill out a form and mail in a check and do not allow online reservations.
Besides the new storm of young RVers with families taking over the campgrounds on the weekend there is the old weather chasers who monopolize sites in campgrounds with season long reservations to camp in the north in the summer and Florida, Texas, etc, in the winter. Walking around the campgrounds in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont you would think you were in Florida due to the number of Florida license plates.
We tend to be travelers and don't like to stay in one place very long. Where we live the weather is a good compromise and we tend to travel for the adventure and not the weather.
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Bob
2022 Quantum JM31
2023 Colorado Z71
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