Reflection: What I learned in my first 5,000 miles of driving the RV

  1. I completely underestimated the miles.  We predicted 5,000 miles for the whole trip and we hit that in 30 days
  2. Very few people let you merge in when you are in a 30ft motor home.  No one lets you merge in when you motorhome is plastered with “RENT ME” signs all over.
  3. No matter how many times you check, things fly all over the camper the first time you accelerate
  4. Driving on the highway is similar to a car.  On local streets, it feels like you are driving a boat.  In parking lots, you feel like the cow with all the flies flying around your head
  5. This thing is not a smooth ride.  It feels like the Apollo lift off every time you get near 60 mph
  6. Going from city to city, we mainly travel on boring interstate highways.  When traveling from one desolate area to another, there are no major highways, but some of the most beautiful landscape you could imagine.
  7. The human brain can withstand more “row row row your boat”, “Old McDonald”, and “The wheels on the bus” than you can possibly imagine.
  8. You don’t truly know convenience until you can take a shower in the parking lot of a Safeway because you arrive somewhere early