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Your longest Pop-Up trip?

Started by Zagami, Mar 30, 2006, 07:22 PM

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tlhdoc

Our longest trip was going to be this summer, PA to SD, but due to gas prices we had to cancel.  Our longest trip was 15 days to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.  It was also our furtherest towing trip.  Around 800 miles each way.  :)

Kelly

Quote from: tlhdocOur longest trip was going to be this summer, PA to SD, but due to gas prices we had to cancel.  Our longest trip was 15 days to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.  It was also our furtherest towing trip.  Around 800 miles each way.  :)


Oh man, Tracy!  I'm so sorry you had to cancel ~ that would have been an awesome trip.  I hope you get to actually make it sometime.

Back when I wasn't a single mom ... we did 2 different long trips with the PU.  The first looped out from home to Wyoming and back ~ we were gone about 2 weeks.  The other was almost 3 weeks long and looped out through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc.

The kids had a great time.  I'm hoping in a couple years we can manage another 3 week trip ~ maybe even 4.  In the meantime we are heading to South Dakota this summer ~ we'll be gone for about 10 days.  It's a much shorter drive for us than Tracy!

ForestCreature

Our longest trip was a 3 week leisure jaunt around Lake Superior. Funny, I don't know how many miles we went. But It was a great time with fantastic scenery, good hiking and would not hesitate to make that loop again. We had no schedule or reservations other than to be home in 3 weeks, so we were able to stay at each spot till we got our fill. There are spots we diddn't get to that will be seen next time.
 We've returned to Lk Superior Provincial park twice since that trip. And would like to return to Pukaskawa to make the hike to the suspension bridge weather diddn't allow us to make.

homecrew

We have spent a few years where I take my two week vacation all at once and we will spend it camping in different areas. A couple of the years one of the weeks was spent at Pop-Up Times Rallies. Other years didn't match up to the area we were going so we were unable to meet up with everyone.
 
I would say that our longest in the pop-up was 17 days and about 1,600 miles when we went to Niagara Falls and then camping in New York before coming back home to Charlotte.
 
Last year we had the hybrid and spent 17 days going to Bar Harbor. That was about 2,700 miles all together.

Gone-Camping

Longest trip in my PU wasn't all that big...Virginia to Maine for a week. On the way home I stopped at a quaint little diner in Stowe Mass and let some feller named Zagami buy me a bagel & a cup of coffee...

fdtd

SW PA (near Steelers summer training camp ;> ...Yes I can see it from my house) to Freeport, Maine (Freeport KOA) and back over the course of a week.  Wife, Daughter (2yo), Wife's cousin (adult who wanted to see Maine) and of course, me.  It was our 3rd trip to Freeport, but our first trip with the pu and the first family camping trip....All went well, but from my point of view since I didn't have to sleep on the ground, as I normally did, so much the better.  We had bought the pu about 2 weeks before, had a "practice" campout in the driveway ( to see how DD would do) and decided let's goto Maine...packed and off we went.  A much more enjoyable trip than the previous 2....more able to experience nature.  Beautiful cool nights and plesant days....A good time had by all. (DD loves road trips, thank God for a Hemi)

campingcop

The longest trip was 6 weeks.( over 30 years ago belive it was 1977 but not sure)
Was married to my first wife at the time.
Had a Plymouth Van(forgot what year.)
A Krown Pop Up
4 kids 3 boys 1 girl
 
Headed out west from Detroit Mi. had no set places to stay except Yellow Stone and the Grand Canyon.

If memory serves we camped in north Dakota can't rember were.
South Dakota Custer State Park, Grand Tetons, Brice Canyon, Yellow Stone,think we spend over a week in Yellow Stone, and the Grand Canyon, also stayed in some KOA's both going and coming home but don't rember which.(it was a long time ago)

Don't rember how many miles I but on the Van but it was a lot.

Have to add at that time you didn't need reservations

DoubleD

At age 11, we packed 6 kids and 2 adults into a 1966 2 door Chevy Impala and all of our camping gear into the trunk and a car top carrier and drove from Omaha to Pontiac, MI, the Upper Peninsula, and Eau Claire, WI.  Not sure how many miles, probably close to 2000.  I think we were gone close to 2 weeks.  That poor car was not loaded, it was overloaded.  Dad had to install helper springs on it to keep it from dragging in the rear.  We didn't camp the entire time, we did stay with friends and relatives in Pontiac and Eau Claire, but did camp near the Mackinaw Bridge for 4-5 nights.
This year DW and I got 7 nights in a row, 2 of which were 3 miles from home for our 'dry run' which was snowy and cold, then 350 miles and 5 nights in Moab.  Looking to get another 8-9 night trip before the end of the year, possibly Yellowstone from Denver.

kwatson51

Way back in our tenting days, a friend at work let us borrow their pop-up to take on vacation. It was sitting in their back yard for years and had grass grown up around it.
   Well, by God's grace I got it home (100 miles away) and spent the next month getting it road-worthy: new tires, lights, axle-grease, cable lube, washed the drapes, cleaned everything twice.
   So the day came to depart. We borrowed 2 kids to go with our 1 and struck out North -- from central Texas to Wyoming -- Yellowstone to be exact.
   Along about Lubbock, a tire fell off (tire place didn't tighten the lug nuts well).
Fortunately, we found 3 of the lugnuts on the side of the road and was able to put the tire back on well enough to get to Lubbock and an RV dealer.
   That ordeal set up behind about 4 hours, so we were late getting to Amarillo where there we NO campsites available. So we kept on driving and wound up in Raton, NM. where we spent the remainder of the night in the van behind a fast food place.
   Next day - onwards north. The rest of the trip was a blast. Had a great time and still talk about it today. The longest part of the trip was getting from Austin to Amarillo (Seemed long anyway). But then as they say, once you get out of Texas, you're half-way to anywhere.

Dwayne N

Our longest trip was the first one we ever took.

About 3200 miles round trip from Phoenix to LA to Big Sur to San Fran to Crescent City and back.

All in about two and-a-half weeks last Summer.  Big fun was had by all.