Real Cost To Camp | Average Daily Expenses Breakdown | Maintenance and More!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In Episode 261 of Luv Subbin, we breakdown the real costs for camping using three years of data. We break it down by per day expenses, including fuel, campgrounds, tours and eating out. We discuss what we spend on insurance, maintenance, and internet. We also talk about the actual cost of being a Harvest Host member and whether it's worth it.
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Thanks everyone for watching! This is a video three years in the making. We hope you find it interesting. Feel free to ask us anything from a budgetary perspective - you know we'll have the data!
Another great video!
Thanks for sharing the info; we love to play with numbers and analyze what it means.
Really looking forward to our first ever International Rally in October!
Thanks so much for watching! We are glad that our video was helpful to you. We will be at International as well so we will look forward to meeting you. Make sure you stop us and say "Hi".
Really good info. We love COE parks and use our geezer discount with the America The Beautiful pass. Most COEs are $15 with the discount.
We totally understand your frustration with things breaking and wearing out. We had to replace our converter today. Scuttled our fun plans to go out and about.
We’re really looking forward to the James Island video. 😉😊
Thanks guys! Yup, when our converter last failed we had booked a campground near Green Bay, Wisconsin with the intent of touring Lambeau Field. Instead, it was a day of Fixing Things in Beautiful Places...
Some great information right their - thanks for taking the time to put it all together 🍻
Thanks for watching! Actually, getting the data together was pretty easy as we've been diligent to keep up our files. This one was just a bear to edit...
You guys are the reason that we went ahead and got the airstream. You guys are very helpful and informative informative and great. Thank you for your service. I appreciate it.
Thanks so much for watching and the super nice comment. We hope you love your Airstream as much as we love ours. Safe travels and we hope to see you down the road.
Love the data! We keep spreadsheets on our travel as well. Senior America the Beautiful pass gets you 1/2 price at COE 👍🏻
Thanks for watching! From what we have learned, even the "non senior" America the Beautiful pass can take 50% off. We'll certainly try that next time.
Yes! We have the Senior America the Beautiful Lifetime pass and get half off our COE reservations. The pass has now paid for itself in with those savings.
Rich my 22 international fridge did the same thing. It was the Thermostat control module . I pulled the fridge and put it in my basement. I think the part was about $120 . Way above my skill set. But I figured it out and it works just fine now. I turned it on a few days ago..
Thanks for watching and the tip. What baffles me is that it works perfectly when connected to shore power. If it were the Thermostat control module, wouldn't it have problems then as well? Let me know what you think because we have quite a bit of boondocking planned started in April...
Love the data!
As my boss used to say "In God We Trust. All Others Bring Data". Thanks for watching!
It’s all about the data. I do something similar and it’s always interesting to compare trip to trip. I did find diesel to be less this year than last. We just returned from FL and it’s time to extract the data.
Thanks for watching! Definitely time to extract and analyze the data...
Thanks for your information - it is very well presented, informative and fun! We are new to Airstreaming and appreciate your UA-cam’s. One topic we would appreciate help with is trip planning. We find this topic daunting, especially finding campgrounds. Having to book camp spots months in advance seems contrary to the idea of living on the road and takes away the spontaneity. You mentioned you don’t book a lot in advance - how do you manage?
Thanks so much for watching and the super nice comment on our videos. Maybe we need to do a video on this topic but here is a summary:
1. We first put a "Stake in the Sand" for any trip. For our summer 2024 trip, it was the International Rally in Rock Sorings, Wyoming. Vermont to Wyoming. Check.
2. Next, we maintain a spreadsheet of all the places we want to see in life. We get these ideas from locals or - in many cases - from watching other UA-cam videos. Great examples for our Wyoming trip were the St. Louis Gateway Arch, Route 66, the Golden Spike Railway Harvest Host, and Devil's Tower. All of those had been on our list for years but were plugged in for this trip.
3. Next, we take out our big Rand McNally paper atlas and highlight those places (with an actual highlighter - no app yet). From there, we sketch out a basic route. For the most part, we stay on the Interstates for travel days. I have a set of dividers that I set for 250 miles and put one point on our current location and draw an arc 250 miles away. We look for anything interesting (or a good state park or COE) +/- 50 miles from that arc.
4. Once we find something within our radius of travel, we finally open the Campendium app and search for nearby campsites. We follow our "Hierarchy of Campgrounds" which we mentioned in this video.
5. As we said, we don't plan more than 1 week or so in advance and, in some cases, that hurt us. We thought we could get into Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons due to a cancellation but that didn't happen. Still, our system works for us.
We hope this tidbit helps. Congrats on your new 'Stream and we hope to see you own the road.
Great breakdown.
Thanks for watching! We hope our breakdown was useful and/or interesting.
Another great episode. I use google sheets for long trip planning, cost estimates and actuals. Since it is collaborative I share out the planning tab with our family so they know when and where we are anytime during the trip. YES! Your insurance cost is insanely low!
Thanks for watching! That's a great idea to share your documents on Google Sheets. Hopefully we'll never need the insurance but I'm betting if we do things will not go well...
Thanks for another great video. We are almost exactly the same expense wise. 114 days on the road in 2023.
Thanks for watching! That's good to know that our numbers are similar.
Excellent video and info! Thanks!
Thanks for watching and we hope it was helpful.
Great Video, very informative! You mentioned you do your own maintenance, where do you change the oil on your truck when you’re on the road? at the campsite? Safe travels.
Thanks for watching! Good question. I don't do oil changes at campgrounds. We still have a house so I try and time things so that the oil is changed while we are at home. The mileage timing worked well this year. If it didn't work and I started to push 8,000 miles without a change, I would indeed go to an oil change place.
Very informative! Wow! We had 3 main trips last year and covered 7000 miles! I guess we’re real wanderers!
Thanks for watching! Having 3 main trips covering that many miles sounds like you had a great year as well. Safe travels in 2024.
Good video on tracking expense. Do you have a blank expense sheet you can post. Thanks
Thanks for watching! I'm going to try and upload a blank version to our website tomorrow. Stay tuned...
Nice video. Curious, how often do you repack your bearings time vs mileage?
Thanks for watching! My bearings are on a mileage based maintenance schedule. Every 10,000 miles. Now that we're retired, that works out to about once per year. Before we retired, it could have been 3 - 4 years between repacking.
America the Beautiful Pass gets you 50% off per day at COE’s. Great video! Safe travels
Thanks Cotton Tales! Yes, it was the last C.O.E. that we stayed at where I saw that the America the Beautiful offered a 50% discount. We'll remember that in 2024.
Great
Good one
Thanks for watching! Hopefully all of our data will be of assistance.
interesting stuff.
Thanks for watching! We hope you find it useful.
Did you mean Henry's Lake State Park Idaho, not Stephen's Lake?
Thanks for watching and a big Oops on my part. It is Henry's Lake State Park. We try and be "Detail Orientated" here at Luv Subbin but we messed that one up.
Cindy, where did the black eye come from? Right side.
Thanks for watching! The Make-up Department here at Luv Subbin Productions failed us. No black eye - just an eye shadow smear that caught the light very badly. In final edit Cindy said "I look like I have a black eye!". I'm like: no one will notice. I stand corrected.
I think a combination of makeup and lighting is causing the false impression of a black eye
@@LuvSubbin I looked for scratches on your face but didn’t see any!
@@rothresorttravels8804 You called it.
We need a UA-cam wall.🤣
You don't have one?!?! Keep making great videos and there may be a Silver Play Button on yours someday...
Annual insurance on your Airstream is under $16?!?
Thanks for watching! Yup. Hopefully we'll never have to file a claim but if we do, we'll take the $16 premium into account if USAA tries to mess with us.
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