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I do totally get wanting to get better mpg. We do this game all the time with our almost annual pilgrimage to Yellowstone park. Luckily we live pretty close, 300 miles or so each way. When we make a quick 3 night trip the math on bringing the camper starts to be tight. We used to be lucky to get 8 mpg and gas a over $3/gal so it cost $260 in gas and $90 for 3 nights at the campground. That is pushing the cost of 3 nights hotel in West Yellowstone and no stress towing. Now I can get 13 mpg, diesel is less, and we may downsize to a popup where we could get over 20 mpg. So camping is a no brainer, especially considering the better location than where the hotels are.
Someday when it's just my wife and I and I'm retired we will get a class B diesel van and go all over the US and Canada and Alaska.
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