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Traveling to the Fort ?s - The DIS Discussion Forums - DISboards.com
We just purchased our first tt and are planning a trip to the Fort next year .
We will be traveling from Michigan.
I'm am wondering, with this distance, how many travel days would people recommend.
Also, when you stop for the night, do you unhook or leave your rv hooked up to your tv?
TIA for your opinions.
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We travel from Texas, and I think it depends on your driving habits.
How many hours can you drive safely.
I have been driving non stop to Fla.( about 12 hours,) first leg, but not this year.
This year we will take 3 days.
I might note we travel with dogs so we make a lot of pit stops.
Keep in mind, hauling a trailer is a little more stressful.
We usually unhook as some times we go out to eat depending on our location.
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We travel 1300+ miles from NH.
It's just DH and I and our dogs, and we like to just get there .
We drive about 10 hours the first leg, stop at a WalMart for a nap and something to eat (4-5 hours)
...then drive another 8-9 hours and stop for the night around Jacksonville - usually at a WalMart so we can do our grocery shopping in the a.m.
Before we make the final 3 hour trek to the Fort.
Since we're generally stopping at WalMarts, we don't disconnect.
It's just a quick sleep stop for us.
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I use a program call Microsoft Streets and Trips, it can help you plan your trip right down to the cost of the fuel, There is a free 60 day trail you can download to play with before you buy.
Just Google it...
Quote: : We just purchased our first tt and are planning a trip to the Fort next year .
We will be traveling from Michigan.
I'm am wondering, with this distance, how many travel days would people recommend.
Also, when you stop for the night, do you unhook or leave your rv hooked up to your tv?
TIA for your opinions.
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As with most answers, "It Depends" .
We usually leave about 2:00 am on a Thursday, ( from N.
Of Chicago, its about 1,200 miiles) and drive thru the nite and get to Valdosta Ga.
Around 5:00 pm on Firday.
Stay overnite, and dirve to the Fort the next day.
Get there about 11:00 am and hope for early check in,which we usually get.
Google, Trips and Streets, and Yahoo can give you great guidelines, but its really up to you, your family and what you want to do.
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I only have about 12 - 13 hours, so I usually shoot to leave about 2pm in the afternoon and get myself South of Atlanta the first evening.
Usually stop in Georgia somewhere between Exit 60 and Exit 40 on I-75, then finish up the trip the next morning, getting to the Fort about noonish.
If I'm solo, I stop at a campground with a pull through and don't disconnect, just plug in electric and go to bed.
However, I usually have someone with me, either my spouse or a friend.
My spouse doesn't like just overnighting in the camper, so we get a hotel, and when I'm traveling with a friend, we stop at a hotel also, because we don't want to mess with a tent for just one night.
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We are located in SW Michigan, it's just under 1200 miles from here.
Last time we left at 10:00 p.m.
And drove straight thru and checked in at 7:00 p.m.
But that's not for everybody.
Two 10 hour days will get you there.
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We are in South Bend, Indiana.
Our trip in June, we are making it in 3 days.
Kind of breaking it up and doing a little sight seeing on the way.
Now coming home, we plan on 2 days leaving early on a Friday morning and getting home late Saturday.
That gives us Sunday as an option if we get to wore out either Friday or Saturday.
we drove straight thru about 8 years ago and if I recall correct, it was about 22 to 23 hours.
But we were not towing a travel trailer.
So no way doing that with this trip towing.
At any rate, have a good trip!!
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It is 800 miles for us.
We always make it in 2 days.
First because we had young children and now because we have pets.
We are not so tired when we pull in the 2nd day and can then spend time in DTD before we head to the parks bright and early the next morning.
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There will be a lot of different answers to your "How many days travel" question.
We've been traveling to FW for almost 30 yrs and our travel days have changed drastically over the yrs.
When we were young and traveling with an infant who slept the whole time we could drive non stop to get to FW in 20 hrs.
H , where did all that energy we had back then go to??
Then we hit middle age and had 3 kids playing, fighting, arguing, in the back and we found it necessary to make a lot of stops just to let them get out and put some distance between each other.
At this time we'd spend 2 nights on the road, usually in a rest stop or Walmart type shopping plaza.
Back then, money was tight and going to Disney for us was a big expense and we were not gonna spend any extra money getting there.
We'd drive a good 10hrs the first day and slightly less the second day--planning on staying somewhere near the Ga./Fla.
Border. Today its just my DH and I and we like spending our winters in the warm south so we still drive hard the first day--and then once we hit warmer temps we slow down and take in the sights along the way.
It took us 9 days to get to FW last Dec.
As you see, everyone has different needs but one thing I'd like to point out and stress its never fun to push hard and get to FW as quickly as possible if when you do get there;
You are exhausted!
After all you didn't come all that way to sleep or grouch at the family did ya?
That's one reason we found it worked out well to spend the night before arriving someplace that left us with only a couple hr drive.
Good luck and happy planning!
Never unhook in a rest area or Walmart.
Rarely unhook when simply over nighting in a campground.
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We just went down in April (from Massachusetts).
We left about 7:15 pm on a Thursday, drove until about 3:00/3:30 pm on Friday, stayed overnight in Waltersboro, SC (just outside of Savannah, GA) , and checked in to Disney on Saturday early afternoon (a day earlier than we had planned!).
On the way home, we left FtW at about noon on a Monday, and we were home around 2:30/3:00 on Tuesday afternoon.
Even though we had 4 kids with us, and we were towing our TT, we made much better time than we had expected.
Have fun!!!
(And be sure to write a trip report when you get back)
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Thanks for the replies.
We are leaning towards making three stops along the way.
We'll have our 8 yr old daughter and our 7 yr old son and I'm afraid if we drive to long each day, they'll make it unbearable for me.
Any recommendations for places to stop along the way?
Leaving from Flint, MI area.
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We're 980 miles away from the Fort, and we take three days to get there.
We leave really early the first morning and make it a big day.
The second day is shorter, and we stop about 3 hours from the Fort.
The third day we get up and check in by lunch, then have the rest of the day to go to a park and make it to any dinner reservations.
We take two days to get home...The excitement just isn't there when we know we're headed towards Ohio!
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When we stop over night on our way to thr Fort, we do NOT unhook the TT.
We do hook up the water and electric.
Any time I can save to help me get me back on the road the next morning is a help.
After all, the sooner I get to the Fort, the sooner I can go fishing !
Don't forget to pack your fish'n pole !
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We're a little north of milwaukee and we stop two nights.
Most of the time the second night we are very close to the fort.
it just depends on you.
We drive more hours in one stretch, on the way down than we do on the way back.
Not as excited to come home..
you may run into traffic like we did coming home in april.
In that normally only 3-4 hour drive, it took us like 5 hours.
We pulled over and stayed the night.
Storms were going through atlanta and kentucky.
Keep an eye on weather and traffic because that will make a difference, too.
but, in reality 2 nights is just right for us.
We sleep in truck stops or rest areas...
You may also want to at least print out or save on a disc the flying j, pilot truck stops.
Let's you know where they are on the interstate and approx.
Fuel prices.
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