For me to travel to the east coast to participate in the Chesapeake Bay cruises, it's 18 hours and 1,000 miles each way. I'm not up to driving that straight through, so I break it up over two days. The first few trips, I would stay in a motel. Eventually, I realized I was towing the same living quarters I'd be using for the next week or so. These days, I just hide out on a Wal-Mart parking lot with rest of the RV crowd. I'm not up to Connie's standard of living (my ship's fine china is a Correll lighthouse pattern), but even so, that has been known to raise eyebrows. On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:59 AM, chbenneck@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi John,
If you go back in the Montgomery archives, you will find an article by an M15 owner and his wife about their several weeks long trip up the West Coast from Seattle, ..north. They carried all they needed for the trip; food; fuel; water; and augmented their supplies with fish that they caught.
So, if it can be done by two on an M15, doing it on an M17 should be almost luxurious.
As for staying at KOA camp grounds with the boat on the trailer, and sleeping aboard, it's worth the price of admission to see the faces of the regular campers when you climb in and out of your M17 cockpit. They have never seen something like that before.
My wife and I spent a night aboard on our Bolger MICRO at a Rockland, ME camp ground years ago, and it was extremely do-able. However, we didn't want to eat in the cockpit, so my wife sent me off to get a proper table cloth for the picnic table we had next to the boat trailer. I drove to Rockland; found a Thrift Store; bought a nice table cloth, two linen napkins; and a glass protected candle holder, with candle - for the proper ambiance.
Then we unlimbered our propane stove, cooked dinner on one end of the picnic table, and ate in splendor off china plates with good wine glasses, by candle light, as the other campers gawked at the strange birds in their midst.
The campground showers, toilets and sinks made life simple and pleasant.
Connie ex M15 #400