My 19,000 mile, 87 day road trip
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Topic: My 19,000 mile, 87 day road trip
Posted By: CAPTKIDD
Subject: My 19,000 mile, 87 day road trip
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2022 at 1:25pm
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I just got home two days ago from my big around the country road trip. The following is a breakdown of costs and stuff. Total days on the road 87 Total miles driven 19,024 Total dollars spent $20,201.03 Total gas cost $5,821.57 Total camping costs $6,975.18 Total miscellaneous $3,496.37 Total accident pay out $3,907.94 Total cost per day $232.20 Total cost per mile $1.06 Total countries visited 2 Total Canadian provinces visited 8 Total states visited 23. I had allocated $20,000 for this trip and I was almost on the money. So all in all it was a great adventure and I am really glad I was able to do it. I have three more road trips in mind, one to visit the remaining 27 states I didn't get to this trip, one to go back up into British Columbia and go to Williams Lake, Bella Colla, and Vancouver island, one just a short 4 or 5 day trip down to Visalia, CA and across Sherman Pass (the only pass over the Sierra's I haven't been over) to Coso Jct. on hyw 395. This is the way my great grandfather traveled in the late 1800s to mine gold on what is now China Lake Laval Weapons station. Hopefully I will be able to do all three. HAPPY TRAILS! ------------- CAPTKIDD |
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Posted By: poohbill
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2022 at 2:14pm
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A good trip, then. I'd like to do the Canadian piece myself. ------------- 2016 179 Gastropod 2017 Ridgeline |
Posted By: poston
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2022 at 2:44pm
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Sounds awesome!
But you can't get away with just a line item for that! Details (& photos) please! ------------- -- Jim Virginia City, Nevada 2016 R-pod 180 2015 Nissan Xterra Pro-4X |
Posted By: CAPTKIDD
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2022 at 10:12am
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I was turning right out of a parking lane at Costco and did not pull far enough out before I turned and clipped a car that was parked at the end of the line. Only damage to the RPod was to the small black fender. Had to replace it. The damage was to the car. I thought the price to fix it was high by about $1,ooo but as I was leaving the area that same day I said oh well and paid it. ------------- CAPTKIDD |
Posted By: gpokluda
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2022 at 2:54pm
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Sounds like a great trip despite the accident. Glad it wasn't worse and you made it home safe. How did your Rpod and tow vehicle hold up? Any major issues? ------------- Gpokluda 2017 Rpod 179(sold 2023) 2022 Escape 5.0TA 2022 Ford F150 4X4 3.5EB Kawasaki KLR650 |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2022 at 4:06pm
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Sounds like me at a concrete island at a gas pump. I straightened the fender as best I could. There was some yellow paint on the water heater access hatch and at the strip on the bottom of the trailer as well. That taught me to not try to squeeze in at a gas pump without making sure there was adequate room to clear both the truck and trailer. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
Posted By: CAPTKIDD
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2022 at 5:22pm
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Other than the ding to the fender there were no issues with either the RPod or my 2016 Dodge Durango which now has 130,000 miles on it and I figured my mileage at 13.5 mpg overall. That's with me driving 55 mph. ------------- CAPTKIDD |
Posted By: poston
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2022 at 3:15pm
That's a bummer! When I was towing my Rpod back home from where we bought it, I turned too sharply getting out of a gas station bay in a crowded, cramped tourist trap (Death Valley Fruit & Nut, Beatty, Nevada. I didn't hit anything, but came very close to the roof pillars (single-digit millimeters!). Very little room to back up or pull forward. After about a dozen back-and-forths, I was able to pull out with no damage, except to my pride and stress to impatient tourists.  ------------- -- Jim Virginia City, Nevada 2016 R-pod 180 2015 Nissan Xterra Pro-4X |
Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2022 at 4:26pm
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I've bought gas there several times too. It's a really tight squeeze and lots of cars in the way. Glad to hear that you were able to get out safely. ------------- Never leave footprints behind. Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
Posted By: poston
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2022 at 5:28pm
Yeah, it's really not designed for trailers. It's a good thing my wife and I are chill, or it would be quickie divorce time in Reno! (after 30+ years!) ------------- -- Jim Virginia City, Nevada 2016 R-pod 180 2015 Nissan Xterra Pro-4X |
Posted By: lostagain
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2022 at 5:53pm
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Since my wife doesn't drive, she never even notices stuff like that. We did buy some walkie-talkies and she's getting the hang of telling me to stop before I back into a rock or a small child. ------------- Never leave footprints behind. Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
Posted By: gpokluda
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2022 at 7:53pm
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We've been fortunate to never get in a situation like that, although we have been boxed in by folks who fill up then go inside the convenience store do a weeks worth of shopping and use the restroom. We do carry an empty 5gallon gas container in the event we have to shuttle fuel to the TV but have never had to do that. ------------- Gpokluda 2017 Rpod 179(sold 2023) 2022 Escape 5.0TA 2022 Ford F150 4X4 3.5EB Kawasaki KLR650 |
Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2022 at 11:49am
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The day we picked up our Rpod, I was immediately not happy with the trailer brake controller (TBC) that the RV dealer had installed. It was screwed to a bracket that bumped my right knee. We had let them install it, as they had promoted it as being "plug-n-play". We assumed (incorrectly) that it was the OEM TBC from Ford. It was not. As there was a Ford dealer just a few blocks from the Rpod dealer, we decided to pull into the Ford dealer parking lot and see if we could just pick up a TBC from them. What we had not anticipated was that the Ford dealer parking lot was JAMMED and NARROW! Oh my! I feel happy that we got out of that lot without banging anything up. ------------- bp 2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2022 at 12:03pm
What I get a kick out of when towing is the guy in the car who pulls up nose to nose with you while your filling up at a gas pump and then expects you to back up for him when he wants to leave.  ------------- 1994 Chinook Concourse 1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
Posted By: anniefranz
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2022 at 9:57am
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We recently bought our 180. I had a 16 Scamp that followed the TV perfectly. This is taking some getting used to with the necessary wide turns. But we can stand up staight and stretch out in the bed and bath! Totally worth it! ------------- Anne |
Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2022 at 2:16pm
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My worst experience was pulling into a narrow lot thinking that there would be a connecting road that would allow us to go out. It took many minutes of minutes of back and forth to be able to turn around in that lot without running into buildings, trees, other cars, etc. It was not quite miraculous that we got out of that unscathed, but it was close. Welcome and congratulations Annie! I hope you have many fun adventures and make many great memories with your RPod. ------------- StephenH Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=7712 - ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |