If we asked this question at any time of year, we’d get varied answers. But now is an especially interesting time to ask it.
When coronavirus hit and sent many states into stay-at-home orders, were you forced to drive your RV back to your stick-and-bricks home? Did you stay out and continue traveling? Did you leave your sticks-and-bricks home for an RV trip?
In the last month alone, how many miles have you driven your RV? Have you taken it on a drive just to “get out of the house?”
Please vote in the poll below and tell us. Feel free to leave a comment too, of course.
Returned home from Arizona.
It has move from storage to outside. So it count as moving it around.
Similar story. Finished awning repairs Thursday, moved it 200 feet from the shed to the driveway to add a little water. Plan for now is to visit friends nearby where we can sit outside to social distance and have our own bathroom to use.
Still in the Barn, I see it everyday.
Monthly “ walk” around the city
To get the kids out of the house for a change of pace we take a country ride and if we find an unoccupied rest area we stop . If no ones around we will do lunch or just get out and relax a bit.
After all ,(we are self contained).
Here’s a good one: Delaware State Parks are closed to camping. Under normal conditions, you have to make a reservation online and pay online. The sites are really large and spaced very well. When you arrive, you just go to your site and setup. You stay in your own self contained RV. 95% of the time there is no one at the office. The whole system has always been perfect social distancing. So why are they all closed?
MD opened state parks 5/7…no sites are going to be available until 5/30. Makes just as much sense.
We took one trip to a small resort we belong to about an hour from the house. It’s closed but they let us spend the night. Took walks, happy hour and enjoyed sleeping in the RV. We also use it now for afternoon naps, happy hour or eating dinner. Can’t wait to hit the road.
Moved from a park in NewCaney Texas to Fredericksburg Texas for a new workamping gig.
Lakeland, FL to Orono, ME to Hyannis, MA. Took some planning, found open RV parks every night.
42 miles to round out the tires…….
Can’t really vote as we’ve yet to take delivery on our new Micro Lite. COVID delayed it’s production by 6 weeks and transportation another 10 days. Hopefully will bring it home this week.
Just took the Beast in to get new tires. Old ones were 7 years old and time to replace them. Driveway looks really empty. Neighbor happy his grass will get some sunshine.
Just like a generator the motorhome needs to be exercised. I take our small class C grocery shopping first thing in the morning. Wife is still in bed, there’s less traffic and I have my own clean bathroom…
Left southern Arizona 3 weeks ago & travelled with our fifth wheel to southern Alabama (2000miles) to wait awhile until we can visit our kids in Michigan after the virus settles down in that state. Close to the normal volume of trucks, but cars were almost non-existent, & rare rv sightings.
The virus is keeping us home
We’re traveling from Ocala, FL to TN & SC and then back to FL, to see our kids. Spent one night each way at a Cracker Barrel enjoying their “closed but doing takeout “ so lots of room in their parking lots! Rest of the nights were in private or COE campgrounds where there were very few people. Wore our masks and gloves anytime we went outside RV. Good trip…we’re snowbirds who have been “stuck” in Central FL for the last 3 years due to several issues…we had to get out to see kids for 2 graduations, 2 birthdays, and a wedding (and, thank God, no funerals)!
Haven’t taken the RV anywhere but we’ve home camped twice over the past 30 days when scheduled reservations were cancelled on us.
I did get a 9 week trip in this year to the south east before covid 19 hit. About 1600 miles.
Our 5th wheel has only been towed to our local dealer for minor repairs. That would be approximately 8 miles each way! Not nearly enough for us!!
Needed some minor work completed, so why not while unable to travel, thus less than 100 miles.
A little over 150 miles. Had an outstanding time at Anchor Down, TN.
Have travel trailer and 5th wheel. In last 30 days retrieved both after loans to medical professionals and took 5th wheel to dealer to consign.
That is really kind & cool~ thank you!
We have gone 0 miles. Left Myrtle Beach 3 1/2 weeks early to get home (CT). Have been staying close to home.
We were scheduled to leave for our summer place on the Oregon coast this coming Wed. Now it looks like the coach will set in its garage for the rest of the summer…at least.
In the last 30 days zero miles. In the last 3 days of March I towed the nearly 2000 miles from West Texas to Pennsylvania to start our summer workcamping jobs. So the pandemic had no effect on my travel plans.
We moved from one site to another in the same RV park – so we “traveled” about 1/4 mile!!😆
In a way, my answer is not fair. We were in the process of buying a new to us class A when Covid hit. We finally went last Monday to pick it up. So, the only miles it was driven was to go pick it up and bring it home.
In March we traveled almost 2,200 miles from south Florida to Winnipeg in 4 days. Under normal circumstances it usually takes us 7 -10 days (because we take our time) but we were told to get back home to Canada before they close the border.
We left AZ as snowbirds to come to WI. About 1900 miles. This time it was nice to have our truck camper because of uncertainty of open campsites and Covid 19. 2 nights at paid campsites,2nights at Camp Walmart. Should have stayed a while longer in AZ. Although it was getting into the 90’s it has not been that nice here. 47 right now.
Wisconsin is OPEN for business!
Took trailer from Albany NY to CT and back for yearly maintenance.
This ‘once bulletproof kid’ is staying home.
0 miles in months.😔
1800-mi from mesa, az to home in the western chgo ‘burbs.
Now you’re a prisoner of the Supreme Ruler of Illinoyed……shoulda stayed in AZ, they’;re open!!
Our trailer is sitting in the lot, sad and alone. I’ve thought about just going over and sitting in her for a while to make us both feel better. This was the one summer I’d have open to travel and then all this crap happened. Not sure what plans I can make now as many campgrounds still are not open on the east coast (my destination).
Just waiting to get some time to go somewhere. I would even take 3 or 4 days somewhere. Camping on weekdays is easier then weekends. Maybe with everyone going back to work here in Texas we will be able to get to go somewhere.
What is the purpose of wearing gloves if you’re just on a walk outside your rv other than while pumping gas? I thought this virus was spread by sneezing and/or coughing (and the occasional person who can be a carrier and not show signs)?
The virus can retain viability for up to three days on hard surfaces such as plastic or metal. If touched, then transferred to the face, the virus can then infect you.
I’ve given up on thin nitrile gloves for coronavirus protection. I’m using garden gloves–those with the knit back and the front side dipped in a thicker nitrile.
Two big advantages:
1. They’re easy to take on and off. I can pick up a package from UPS, walk to the porch door, take off one glove, open the door, put the glove back on, and put the package inside to quarantine. I let the package rest until I need what’s inside. If it’s less than 3 days, I put gloves back on to unbox it and wipe it down with peroxide or bleach. Alcohol is too hard to find. I do the same at the gas pump. Glove for nozzle, take one off, open the truck door, put the gloves on the floor, close the door.
2. I can sanitize the gardening gloves several ways:
– soaking them in soapy water for awhile. Twenty seconds should be enough but it’s usually a lot longer. Rinse, dry, reuse.
– If soapy water isn’t available, I can use hand sanitizer on the nitrile touch surfaces. Or spray with peroxide or bleach.
Sanitizing garden gloves rather than my hands prevents my hands from getting chapped from all the washing and sanitizing.
Currently about 100 miles away from home. Have been here for 5 nights. Looks like many others had the same urge, the RV park is full! Going home tomorrow but will be coming back soon after taking care of business at home.
Last week l moved our trailer out of the driveway where it had been parked since we returned from Florida in late March.
It’s now parked in the side yard begging to go somewhere, any where.
Drove about 15 miles. Gased up with fresh gas. Drove to my son’s house to put in new water pump and dewinterize. Now where I park it they tore the road out and seem to be widening the road a sheriff’s deputy said I can’t drive it on the tire up road or I could get a ticket.
Towed trailer back to Alaska from SE Washington. 2700+ miles, 5 days. New rules thru Canada for returning snow birds. will finish 14 day AK quarantine on May 20th. Getting lot’s of yard work done…
Living in Montana, we put it to bed for the winter until May every year. By this time the last couple of years we’d taken our “shakedown cruise” less than 20 miles down the road to a USFS campground where we’d test all systems for the season, but were close to home in case of problems. With our yo-yo weather (it’s only been a week or less since the last overnight freeze) and the COVID 19 closures, we haven’t even dewinterized it yet. Looking forward to a few short trips locally before our fall Bucket List Trip to Grand Canyon.
Headed to FL early March for a month of sun, spring training baseball and visiting friends. Turned around 5 days in and returned to MI. Two additional trips cancelled due to closed parks. Been doing small repairs and patiently waiting for the okay to head back out.
We left camp in Mt Vernon the end of April. Three days to get to West Yellowstone (we took a leisurely drive). Now at our summer jobs, working but waiting for the Montana 14 day quarantine to be lifted by the Governor and the west gate to open. Going to be an interesting summer at Yellowstone NP.
Up until today I haven’t moved the rig since getting home from the last trip in mid-March. Today I drove it to the shop for scheduled maintenance (I didn’t count that). Waiting to see what happens before planning our usual summer trip. Getting antsy, though.
On the road next week, got trapped at home in
March.
Today I drove it 160 miles to the nearest dealer that could do my warranty work for us. Hope to be able to use it sometime this summer.
Drove it home from AZ in March and don’t know exactly when we are going to use it again.☹️
I answered 0, but actually it moved 2 miles from my driveway to the storage lot.
Same, but storage to RV repair shop.
Drove about 220 miles to central coast of CA to do some yard work at in-laws place. Being self contained and social distance.
Well it actually did move, from the front of the house to the RV pad in the back after they finished the landscaping.
Couldn’t stand being cooped up anymore so drove down to Paso Robles area for a Boar hunt. Got my bore and drove back the next day.
I answered less than 100 miles to the poll question because I have driven my MH 15 miles once a month just to exercise the drive train and my generator under load. I can do it while parked, I just prefer to drive the 15 miles or so….
It’s sitting on a seasonal site, so we drive down to it. But it does get towed about 400 miles total when we use it for our real vacation during the summer.
Drove from winter storage barn to summer storage lot. Minnesota state parks and all private campgrounds except permanent/seasonal camp sites are closed, no where to go until our governor says they can open!
Maybe 4 miles. Teaching my wife all of the steps necessary to hookup. She then towed our TT around our neighborhood and back home. Too frustrating, though, for her to back it back into place. We’ll keep trying.
I bought a new truck in March retired the end of April waiting for my wife’s school year to finish we had plans to use the fifth wheel and go to Italy who knows
Only took motorhome to top off diesel tank while fuel is cheap. We live in our motorhome… House being built. Had to cancel our 19 day trip to Lake City, Colorado and hope to be able to go in late summer. The motorhome is sad!
During this COVID-19 it seemed like a great time to take it to a shop for some repairs to the little things that we often put off. Saying that … what we thought was a small repair to our fridge, became a need to purchase a new fridge. Glad we had purchased a warranty, so no extra $$ from our pockets. Our rig is new to us; but it’s a 2009 Georgetown, so I’m sure we’ll be seeing some other things go defunk in the future.
New cooling unit would have been cheaper from J.C. Refrigeration or David ford out of Ark. That is where I got mine from and I change it out while I was on the road from MD, to S,C, Had it delivered to the RV park where I pull in for a couple of days. Did the work there on site.