You’ve probably heard the expression “it’s about the journey, not the destination”. In the case of RV travel, those words have never been more true.
Time slows down on the road - not necessarily by choice but because it takes forever to do every little thing. Navigating a parking lot takes extra time in order to find the wide turn openings. Windy roads are driven at a snail’s pace. A 2-hour leg of the trip takes 5 due to an hour of stand-still traffic on a 2-lane road, yet another stop at Walmart for supplies, and then lunch (2 stops because we can’t all agree on one fast food restaurant).
Leaving our campsite means unplugging and unhooking hoses, locking down loose items, and closing up the pop-out wall. And then we have to find parking for our 27-foot vehicle wherever we go.
It’s a process. But that was the point.
There’s no hurry to get anywhere. The Grand Canyon will still be there when we arrive (ideally before dark so we can find our campground). In the meantime, there’s plenty to see and do along the way. The table setup in the RV allows for hours of card games. We celebrate every time we avoid hitting something on a tight turn. Sometimes we read poetry and talk about philosophy (JK, the boys just spent 20 minutes talking about their nuts). And I can tell everyone was as excited as I was when I found the “Roadtrip Sing-a-long” playlist on Spotify, with karaoke-style lyrics!
The journey is happening the whole way. The destination is the icing on the cake.
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