Portland to Florida trip round 2

[redpoint5]

I once packed everything for a week in Hawaii in 1 carry on, and 1 backpack, and that included all SCUBA gear besides a tank and weight belt. With family, carry on only is no longer feasible, so the luggage fees add up quickly.

I'd say about 1/3rd of my flights go wrong enough that I'm extremely inconvenienced, lending me to want to drive even more. Zero of my drives have been wrong enough to extremely inconvenience me so far.

CO (24hrs) is about the limit of what I'm willing to drive by myself in a single push... roundtrip tickets to FloRida can fairly regularly be had for around $500 or a little more.

[freebeard]

But yeah the hotel thing sucks. Usually use rewards for hotels or book super cheap crappy motels in and out. Wish my car was better for car camping

The longer the boat tail, the more room you'll have; if it's configured like Aerocivic.

I have a six foot rack in the SUPERBeetle. Last time I overnighted in it was at the summit of Donner Pass. (I took a wrong turn coming home from Bonneville)

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Originally Posted by redpoint5

I once packed everything for a week in Hawaii in 1 carry on, and 1 backpack, and that included all SCUBA gear besides a tank and weight belt. With family, carry on only is no longer feasible, so the luggage fees add up quickly.

I'd say about 1/3rd of my flights go wrong enough that I'm extremely inconvenienced, lending me to want to drive even more. Zero of my drives have been wrong enough to extremely inconvenience me so far.

CO (24hrs) is about the limit of what I'm willing to drive by myself in a single push... roundtrip tickets to FloRida can fairly regularly be had for around $500 or a little more.

I do the drive from Oregon to Colorado every February for snowboarding. It’s really scenic and pretty. You miss all the gorgeous sights if you just fly. Oregon ti Colorado is much different of a view than say Illinois to Louisiana lol.

I may even be going to Colorado in July for some gold panning and adventures

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Originally Posted by freebeard

The longer the boat tail, the more room you'll have; if it's configured like Aerocivic.

I have a six foot rack in the SUPERBeetle. Last time I overnighted in it was at the summit of Donner Pass. (I took a wrong turn coming home from Bonneville)

I still have no idea how I am going to do the boat tail with the shape of my rear spoiler and opening and closing the trunk/hatch with the boat tail.

It seems like building a boat tail for the new 2023 Prius would be soooo much easier with that roofline and barely existing spoiler

[ttrainxl]

I’ve done a lot of car camping and figured some things out. Especially if you’re driving alone, you could do it pretty easily.

Another option (and it might not be too late to realize a savings) is to just buy a cheap tent and air mattress or something and find places to do real camping. You generally see more attractive scenery this way, which seems like something you’d enjoy if you like the different foods of the areas you’re in too. A cheap single burner stove and a thrift store pot and pan gets you making coffee and breakfast in the morning and reheating your dinner that you didn’t finish the night before. A cheap tent would be fifty bucks. Less than $100 would have you sleeping for free or for $25 a night or less for basically the rest of the trip, including the way back. Camping has gotten expensive lately but I’m sure you could slip in somewhere after dark, set up and sleep, and break down early and go. Hotels definitely add up.

Just like ecomodding, there are tons of ways to make road trips cheaper. You can make it a game just like hypermiling.

[redpoint5]

I slept most nights for 2 years in the back of a Subaru Legacy. Just fold down one of the rear seats, crawl into a sleeping bag, and I'm done.

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I also have my cat with me so hotels are nice to set up his litter

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Alabama stateline ro birminghsm metro with cc set to 75 gave 59 mpg over the rolling hills. That’s nice because last time my mpg at 75 with ac on was 52mpg in the same region last year

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Birmingham to Georgia stateline with cc set to 75 gave 56 mpg in light rain. I took off the rear fins and taped over front wheel covers because of “ appearance” and just higher population areas and the tape issue

[freebeard]

Add small magnets spaced as you would rivets, and the tape just smoothens the edge.