It would mainly haul our temporary “home.” The other thread is here
To illustrate, suppose Mrs. L and I roll into a place outside San Diego on day 1. We check in at the campground. We level the rv, set up hoses, plug in, etc. Then we drive the truck to get groceries, come back. Maybe we have a glass of wine by the fire ring or maybe we relax and go to bed early, catch up on some emails, read a book, whatever. In the coming 2-3 weeks we go see San Diego’s famous zoo, get some fresh seafood, see Balboa Park, check out the naval shipyard, do whatever things appeal to us. Then we haul stakes. Next stop? We head north toward Los Angeles. LA is 120 miles, less than 2 hours away. So if I have to drive that much every two weeks…? Not bad! My commute to work right now is three times that.
So basically it’ll tow the trailer and get us around the area we’re visiting. I’d like to do this for six months to a year.
Sure we could use it to bring home bags of mulch from the Home Depot but I think it’ll be a solution looking for a problem to justify itself. Man, these things are expensive! I do the build and price and I don’t think I can get away for less than $60,000. We can avoid the fancy wheels and such but still…
So yes, a lease might be a good alternative. We would try to keep the route as compact as possible so hopefully the mileage charge wouldn’t kill us. I’ve never leased…do they offer certain models and setups (engine, transmission, trim, etc.) or can you strike a deal on anything you want to lease?
Along on the trip: the wife and the chocolate lab. We’d like to see various places in the US, and our favorite is the mountains so I’d expect to see places in the Rockies, Appalachians, etc. If we moved every two weeks, that would be 13 sites in six months or 26 in a year. We’d want to be in New England in the fall. We’d winter in the southern areas—I grew up in the Midwest and the cold doesn’t scare me, but towing in ice is best avoided.
Maybe I need to generate some proposed routes just so I can figure how many miles we might need in a lease. Wife and I had* a small campervan and we’d take it on weekend trips or extended runs but we always came back home, you know? We put on 32K miles in 5 years but I’m proposing something a little different here.
*In the process of selling it, already have an offer, probably a done deal but it’s still ours as I write this.