With this post I want to comment about our trip. Do’s and Don’ts … tips and tricks to make your RV vacation experience easier and I will relate everything to our Yellowstone trip.
We certainly had an AWESOME time. We were 9 people: 6 adults and 3 kids (10, 7, and 5). It was an 9 hour trip but with stops a bit longer.
Planning Food for Yellowstone RV trip
I have posted our “menu” or at least what we ate while we were in our trip. Here I have to say that it was a great idea to bring already cooked or easy to cook food. This way we spent more time enjoying our trips than spending it in the kitchenette or BBQ. For breakfasts choose easy to cook or non cooking stuff: cereals hot or cold, proteins like cheese, hams or eggs. For Lunches easy to carry in backpack stuff; you can make great sandwiches or do hot dogs with chili. They are hearty and you can wait to eat until dinner time. For dinner you can get more luxurious here, but make sure you bring everything ready to cook! Season everything in advance! I truly recommend put EVERYTHING in ziplocks and keep them in ice coolers. The RV fridge is not worth it! It will not keep your food safe (the cooling system is not enough to keep it from spoiling). So bring
some coolers: one for drinks, one for food and another one for snacks or kids stuff. Bring extra ziplocks, they are handy for everything. For snacks, granola bars, trail mixes, crackers, cookies, COFFEE! To make the coffee we used what we call a “Greca” aluminum coffee maker. This way we didn’t use the generator for making coffee. Water, lots of water, you can bring your own water mega bottle and refill your water bottles as you go.
You can go for paper plates, it will save you a lot of water from the water tank when doing dishes, but bring reusable utensils, you can wash them really fast and use them over and over again. Paper Towel and cloth towels are a MUST! Specially when going with kids! Disinfecting wipes are also handy! They clean and disinfect when cooking!
Going to Yellowstone in an RV
Plan your RV trip and locating gas stations along your route. This way you can stop for gas and bathroom (to save some water from the water tank). Use the generator only when using the microwave, turn it off as soon as you are done! Also use it to have warm water for bathing. Turn one the water pump, when going to the bathroom, doing the dishes or getting a bath and turn it off as soon as you are off!
Bring a floor carpet and a towel for the bathroom. It will make cleaning time much easier! :) Hand soap and toilet paper for the bathroom. Extra batteries, the portable DVD player, and board games. Insect repellent and sun block (fragrance free please! it will keep bears away). Pots and pans (just what you need).
Campgrounds usually have times where you can have your generators ON. One day we arrive just in time to the campground and we some of us couldn’t get a bath because of it. So, we moved to a parking lot nearby and there we finished getting baths and headed back to the campground! Also we had a delicious meal and along with it DELICIOUS SMELLS! So we drove around to get the RV vented so the smells go away, just in case! We didn’t want any bear asking for recipes!
A great think of going in an RV is that you have your house with you (like a snail). If you can’t get to the campground to eat, you can stop literally everywhere to have a great meal with great views!
Yellowstone sightseeing
If you are willing to see wildlife, don’t just stop to see the BIG ANIMALS! There is a lot going on in the prairies and the trees that you are missing! Take a time to do your research and look for smaller things too! :)
Bring waterproof jackets or an umbrella… just in case! It rained when we went there! Flash lights, and a lighter for the stove.
Bring some binoculars and “scan” the big areas around! When we were looking at the pictures in the computer we noticed when photographing an elk, there was a bear in the background that we didn’t noticed at all! Take your time, plan your trip… make a list of things you want to see…
Wrap up!
We would do it again and again and again. It was around $250 per person or $660 per couple (we split it this way to not count for the kids). So it was an awesome deal! 5 days 3 night!
I think we didn’t forget anything. If something I would’ve brought more paper towel. :) Everything else was just perfect! :D
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