My husband and I are just beginning to start our "investigations" into buying an RV (Class A Motorhome) in approximately 4-5 years, with the idea of living in it permanently, and are using the time between now and then to educate ourselves on all aspects of rv life. We have absolutely no experience/knowledge so we need this time to learn.
I hope you can put up with this long winded email, but I thought I should explain my situation to you.
We spent the past weekend at various RV sales locations and found the style/type of motorhome that we think would suit our needs (36" or 38" Class A). When we got home, we started researching the costs to operate/run it and also the costs of staying long-term in campgrounds across the USA, only to have our excitement promptly extinguished when we saw how much the cost of renting campsites with hookups was going to cost us. I have a medical condition that requires me to keep cool, so the air conditioner would be utilized quite a lot (if not constantly) during warmer months. So rather than use fuel/generator and camp "off the grid" so to speak we would need to hook up to powered sites in campgrounds. Obviously the cost to run the generator to keep cool would cost far too much in fuel costs.
So my question to you is: Are you aware of campgrounds across the US that not only allow long-term camping, but have sites with full hookups at a reasonable daily/weekly/monthly rate (eg. less that $20 per night)?
Also, do you have any suggestions as to how we could save on fuel costs/generator if we were to camp "off the grid"?
If there is any information you can give us that would help us to be able to get back on the "excitement track" so we can continue to plan for our future RV life, we would be really grateful.
It feels like that in one weekend we climbed "Excitement Mountain" only to fall of "Disappointment Cliff"!
