We usually drive to CO once a year (except for last year). Now that my wife's best friend moved up there, and she has two little girls that my 2.5 year old was good friends with, we'll probably drive up once in February and an other in August.
Since we have a 2.5 and 2 month old, I see our International trips (we did that a lot before the girls), on the backburner for a few more years.
So, I was thinking of getting a camper to pull with my 2012 5.7L 4X4 Tundra, and with my 25 days of vacation I get per year, piggy back on holiday weekends or just take Th/Fr off and start driving to CO on Wed after work (from Conroe). I figure we can be packed up ahead of time and so I just get home around 5:45 PM, and hopefully hit the road by 7 PM. I can then drive and make it to the Amarillo area (I truly missed my calling to be a trucker with the 20+ hour road trips I've done many times before), pull over in the camper to get a few hour nap, and by Thur. noon-1PM be in Alamosa, CO (our favorite stopping/coffee shop).
We've also done more trail walks in the Sam Houston Forest area and would like to start camping (I didn't get to experience that as a kid so want the girls to have that opportunity). We could hit up all those spots in the hill country as well of course.
Sooooo, does anyone else do this? This wouldn't be a cost saving venture, as hotels are cheaper, but I feel I have enough time off to justify these trips to CO and a used purchase (wife is stay at home). Plus we'd have a free place to stay in CO so we wouldn't have to spend the whole time in a camper.
Since we have a 2.5 and 2 month old, I see our International trips (we did that a lot before the girls), on the backburner for a few more years.
So, I was thinking of getting a camper to pull with my 2012 5.7L 4X4 Tundra, and with my 25 days of vacation I get per year, piggy back on holiday weekends or just take Th/Fr off and start driving to CO on Wed after work (from Conroe). I figure we can be packed up ahead of time and so I just get home around 5:45 PM, and hopefully hit the road by 7 PM. I can then drive and make it to the Amarillo area (I truly missed my calling to be a trucker with the 20+ hour road trips I've done many times before), pull over in the camper to get a few hour nap, and by Thur. noon-1PM be in Alamosa, CO (our favorite stopping/coffee shop).
We've also done more trail walks in the Sam Houston Forest area and would like to start camping (I didn't get to experience that as a kid so want the girls to have that opportunity). We could hit up all those spots in the hill country as well of course.
Sooooo, does anyone else do this? This wouldn't be a cost saving venture, as hotels are cheaper, but I feel I have enough time off to justify these trips to CO and a used purchase (wife is stay at home). Plus we'd have a free place to stay in CO so we wouldn't have to spend the whole time in a camper.