Howards write up about mileage per year had me going back to our own records.  We definately put more miles on both our motorhome and tow car then Howard and Linda do.  Then I watched a YouTube video of a couple driving their big motorhome from a workcamping assignment in Connecticut to the Albuquerque Ballon Festival in 6 days (added the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpVnrOvZoD0, it is almost 15 minutes long).  These both got me thinking.

I thought it might help others if we posted our numbers from 2004 to 2015 as a comparison.  We started fulltiming in July 2003, so 2003 was not a full year.  We are not done traveling in 2016, so that year is also out. 

From 2004 to 2015 we drove our two motorhomes 136,549 miles or 11,379 miles per year average.  The most miles was in 2006, the year we started in Florida, went to Alaska, then to Michigan and ended in California for a total of 19,464 miles.  The least miles was in 2015, when we stayed on the West Coast and only drove 7,713 miles.  The last few years we have driven less than 10,000 miles each.  This will probably change the next time we go to Alaska, which we intend to do in a couple years now that my mother has passed away and we are free to be out of communication overnight.

During those same years we drove our two tow cars 200,613 miles or 16,718 miles per year average.  The most miles was in 2004, 19,238 miles, when we did a lot of exploring of places new to us.  The least miles was a virtual tie between 2008 and 2013, 15,032 and 15,056 miles respectively.  As you can see, our car mileage per year does not vary that much.  We drive somewhere most every day, it is our nature.  When we were working and had two cars, we would drive each car about 10,000 miles each or 20,000 miles combined.  

We have known people who put 20,000 to 25,000 miles a year on their RV, mostly due to work.  But some do it because they go back to their "home" area multiple times a year, even as fulltimers.  One set of friends drove their RV from Florida to Washington State and back to Florida in three weeks and thought nothing of it.   They could not see why many of us thought they were crazy.  They had reasons, but most of us would have come up with alternative plans.  

On our campground moves, we normally travel under 200 miles a day, but push this to the high 200s a few times a year and about once a year we travel over 300 miles.  We have done 400+ mile days, but they are rare and normally because of avoiding bad weather.  That is true of our longest one day drive, 437 miles, when we were getting away from severe weather.  On those days we trade drivers every 100 miles or so, it is great that both of us drive.  

Each of us has to figure out what works for us.  Some find going more than 200 miles stressful, while others will drive over 700 miles in a day if they find it useful. 

How about you?