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Dick_B wrote:
Chicago to Florida: Camp Lakewood in Effingham is open all year as is Whittington Woods in southern Illinois. We like to make our first stop in Paducah, KY (about 380 miles) and stay overnight at Duck Creek RV park a Good Sam park. From there we go to Chattanooga then to Cordele, GA our last stop before our destination in Bushnell, FL at Blueberry Hill R V Resort just off I-75. The first day is about 8 hours but each succeeding day is more like 6 hours to four hours on the last leg.
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โApr-20-2017 07:02 PM
djgarcia wrote:rk911 wrote:
Looking for some guidance from experienced snowbirds.
Up until now my wife and I had to spend winters at our home in west suburban Chicago. We have been able to leave Chicago around March 1st and head to Mesa, AZ for at least part of spring training. That has changed and we're now able to spend much more of the winter away from the cold and snow but we still have a few family commitments that will require us to stay home until roughly January 10th. We're trying to plan this as best as possible without having a date certain when we can leave home as weather at home will play a huge part. It's not so much when we can leave Chicago as it is IF we can leave Chicago as planned.
If reservations are needed must they be made months in advance or are the parks full of others like us meaning making reservations now? But if we can't lock down a departure date from Chicago how can we make reservations anywhere with the certainty of an arrival date? Bad weather that crops up along the way can play havoc with a schedule.
How do you experienced folks deal with that?
Using your cell phone will allow you to cancel or reschedule any reservations. Check each RV parks cancellation policy.
โApr-20-2017 06:28 PM
rk911 wrote:
Looking for some guidance from experienced snowbirds.
Up until now my wife and I had to spend winters at our home in west suburban Chicago. We have been able to leave Chicago around March 1st and head to Mesa, AZ for at least part of spring training. That has changed and we're now able to spend much more of the winter away from the cold and snow but we still have a few family commitments that will require us to stay home until roughly January 10th. We're trying to plan this as best as possible without having a date certain when we can leave home as weather at home will play a huge part. It's not so much when we can leave Chicago as it is IF we can leave Chicago as planned.
If reservations are needed must they be made months in advance or are the parks full of others like us meaning making reservations now? But if we can't lock down a departure date from Chicago how can we make reservations anywhere with the certainty of an arrival date? Bad weather that crops up along the way can play havoc with a schedule.
How do you experienced folks deal with that?
โApr-20-2017 05:08 PM
luckyd wrote:
We have travelled across the states both directions
several times and found no problem booking into a park.
We use Passport America quite a bit.
January through March are usually the busiest times for
RV parks, but we have found that if we call early
in the morning we can get a reservation.
That being said, we have arrived at a park, got set up
and found the park is totally full by four o'clock.
Early bird gets the worm, I guess.
โApr-20-2017 05:07 PM
jplante4 wrote:
Chicago to Florida you will need to research RV parks that are open year round. The alternative is to push through the cold climes and stopping overnight without de-winterizing (Walmarts, Cracker Barrlel etc). Allstays, RVParky and freecampsites.net will help). If it's very cold, find a hotel/motel with a large parking lot.
Florida availability depends on how far south of I-4 you go. Most snowbirds make reservations for next year when they leave this year, but these are generally snowbirds that stay in the same place all winter. If you move around, you can get spots.
Once on I-10, you should have no problems on short term/short stay stops. The way we did this was we were staying at place A, had reservations at place B and were figuring out place C. We stayed 3-7 days in each place.
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