Hi All,
Thank you for reading my post.
I am from Brisbane Australia and we have our dream family holiday "planned" (I say this loosely) and booked coming up soonish in Dec. I say dream as we have been talking about it for something like 12 years, lol. My husband and I got married in Vegas 14 years ago and said we would take the kids back one day so we are super excited to be able to take them finally now that they are a bit older.
We are a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children, aged 10 and 11) and have flights and the RV booked. We fly into LA mid Dec and plan to stay in Anaheim for 4 nights doing Disneyland etc. We will then pick up the RV and head off. At this stage I am not planning to book into any parks as I don't want to have to stick to a schedule, I just want to take it easy and stop where ever we find a nice spot, however I am concerned about pulling up on the side of the road so to speak to set up & stay.
At this stage our plan is to head from LA to San Fran, Las Vegas (Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam as we missed those 14 years ago) then to San Diego and back up to LA to return our RV in Jan 2017. We have 19 days in the RV so my questions are:
1. Is this 'doable'?
2. Do you think we would have too much time and should we plan to head from San Fran to Salt Lake City and then down to Vegas?
3. Are we crazy not booking in any parks?
4. Where can we stop in San Fran? Somewhere that we can somehow get into San Fran to look around as I have heard driving an RV in San Fran is not really a good idea.
5. Any suggestions on "must see" places along the West Coast to stop at?
6. What should I pack/buy to keep the kids happy in the RV while we are driving?
7. Weather wise in DEC/JAN will we need to pack coats, summery clothes or a mixture of each?
Thank you so much for your help! I am feeling very anxious about the trip as I really want it to be all that I have thought it could be all these years.
P.S We have booked an Eclipse Camper so I am hoping its suitable and "not too big"!
Thank you for reading my post.
I am from Brisbane Australia and we have our dream family holiday "planned" (I say this loosely) and booked coming up soonish in Dec. I say dream as we have been talking about it for something like 12 years, lol. My husband and I got married in Vegas 14 years ago and said we would take the kids back one day so we are super excited to be able to take them finally now that they are a bit older.
We are a family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children, aged 10 and 11) and have flights and the RV booked. We fly into LA mid Dec and plan to stay in Anaheim for 4 nights doing Disneyland etc. We will then pick up the RV and head off. At this stage I am not planning to book into any parks as I don't want to have to stick to a schedule, I just want to take it easy and stop where ever we find a nice spot, however I am concerned about pulling up on the side of the road so to speak to set up & stay.
At this stage our plan is to head from LA to San Fran, Las Vegas (Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam as we missed those 14 years ago) then to San Diego and back up to LA to return our RV in Jan 2017. We have 19 days in the RV so my questions are:
1. Is this 'doable'?
2. Do you think we would have too much time and should we plan to head from San Fran to Salt Lake City and then down to Vegas?
3. Are we crazy not booking in any parks?
4. Where can we stop in San Fran? Somewhere that we can somehow get into San Fran to look around as I have heard driving an RV in San Fran is not really a good idea.
5. Any suggestions on "must see" places along the West Coast to stop at?
6. What should I pack/buy to keep the kids happy in the RV while we are driving?
7. Weather wise in DEC/JAN will we need to pack coats, summery clothes or a mixture of each?
Thank you so much for your help! I am feeling very anxious about the trip as I really want it to be all that I have thought it could be all these years.
P.S We have booked an Eclipse Camper so I am hoping its suitable and "not too big"!