Covering your bases
When the kids where young and we didn't have as much as we do now, but one of the things we made sure to always keep was roadside assistance. We often drove older, or hand-me-down vehicles and even staying relatively close to family for the first few years it provided us peace of mind and saved our bacon more than once.
As we got older we found that there was even more of a need for it as we moved away from Michigan and away from family and friends there. We keep roadside assistance on our vehicles, but we added AAA as well. After reaping some of the benefits it provides over the years we purchased it for our kids when they started driving and got their first vehicles.
Now with the addition of our trailer we have overlapping protection when we go on trips. Delilah (my truck) is covered by our insurance with roadside assistance and AAA. The trailer itself is covered by the same insurance, AAA, Good Sam, and the warranty we got when we purchased it. We haven't had to use any of those with the trailer yet, and don't want to, but we have them in case we have a problem.
In addition to those, should something happen with our tires we are adding a second spare. I figure that the cost of buying it outweighs the headaches if we get stuck somewhere with two flats, or even if one tire goes flat on a long trip having that extra is just a good feeling.
One thing that you can count on when you are on a trip, something will go wrong. You have to plan for some of those things (can't really plan for all of them) and deal with it as it arises.
Last fall we made a trip to MD and stayed at a great campground, but because of heavy rains it flooded and we were unable to leave the campground for a few days. There were those that were also stranded that wined and complained non-stop until the roads opened back up and had a miserable time. It ate into our site seeing plans, but we didn't let it get us down. We played games, watched movies, sat around the fire, and relaxed. It's an adventure not a trip.
All of life is the same way, if you spend so much time focused on the obstacles and not enough on the adventure then you miss everything around you.
As we got older we found that there was even more of a need for it as we moved away from Michigan and away from family and friends there. We keep roadside assistance on our vehicles, but we added AAA as well. After reaping some of the benefits it provides over the years we purchased it for our kids when they started driving and got their first vehicles.
Now with the addition of our trailer we have overlapping protection when we go on trips. Delilah (my truck) is covered by our insurance with roadside assistance and AAA. The trailer itself is covered by the same insurance, AAA, Good Sam, and the warranty we got when we purchased it. We haven't had to use any of those with the trailer yet, and don't want to, but we have them in case we have a problem.
In addition to those, should something happen with our tires we are adding a second spare. I figure that the cost of buying it outweighs the headaches if we get stuck somewhere with two flats, or even if one tire goes flat on a long trip having that extra is just a good feeling.
One thing that you can count on when you are on a trip, something will go wrong. You have to plan for some of those things (can't really plan for all of them) and deal with it as it arises.
Last fall we made a trip to MD and stayed at a great campground, but because of heavy rains it flooded and we were unable to leave the campground for a few days. There were those that were also stranded that wined and complained non-stop until the roads opened back up and had a miserable time. It ate into our site seeing plans, but we didn't let it get us down. We played games, watched movies, sat around the fire, and relaxed. It's an adventure not a trip.
All of life is the same way, if you spend so much time focused on the obstacles and not enough on the adventure then you miss everything around you.
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| Flooded Campground in MD. (The road out is under that water near the trees.) |
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