Our 2022 Music Cities Motorhome Trip

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D-Day

Tuesday is "D Day" (Departure Day). Today, we'll do a preliminary food shopping trip and begin to load the motorhome with our clothes and other supplies. Tomorrow, we plan to leave about noon. We'll stop at the Allentown service plaza on the Turnpike to buy enough diesel to get us to Bloomsburg where we can top off the fuel tank at a better price. Our first overnight stop will be at the  Clearfield, PA Walmart where we'll buy whatever we need to continue the trip then on to Mansfield, OH on Wednesday. Our plan is to drive 3 hours or less per day, with our first major destination being St Louis.





Once we cross into Ohio, diesel fuel will be over a dollar less expensive per gallon and even less as we get into the heartland and the South, so we'll stop more frequently to top off. We neeed to keep the fuel tank at least 1/2 full so we can run the diesel generator into the night if necessary to keep the AC going.

Overall, we'll be out for at least 20 days, put over 3300 miles on the motorhome (more on the Jeep) burn over 400 gallons of diesel and an indeterminate amount of gas in the Jeep.

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Joe

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  1. AnonymousJune 21, 2022 at 8:14 AM

    Frank K - Are you back yet? Did you enjoy your trip?

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