Planning your adventure

When you decide to go how do you decide where to go? Do you use the old fashion semi reliable paper map? Or a GPS device such as a Gamin or a Tom-Tom? Or do you do a search and then print the map?

What about the weather where you are going? Click on edit to change the zip code of where you are going

Ok, you know what the gas/diesel costs at your house how about where you are going?

Search for gas prices by US Zip Code

What about supplies, food, soda, sun screen, and all that stuff. Think it will be cheaper at a resort or a camp ground? Hummm...

Before you go a little check list of things that are very important:

• Fluids - check the oil, coolant, brake fluid, all batteries topped off (older lead acid batteries)
• Tire pressures, check those spares too!
• Lights - check the brake and turn signals, marker lights (better to do it at night).
• Load - secure your load inside and out, nothing like that awing coming loose when you turn a corner!
• Tanks - water, gasoline, propane/butane full? The place you are going may not have these consumables or may be very expensive (I went to Lake Powell for a day, we took a boat but didn't fill up the gas tank before we left that little mistake cost us almost three times what we would have paid at home!)