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Planning a two-month trip this summer, Ohio to Oregon. For our bigger stops — 4-5 days in Glacier, Yellowstone, etc. — we’d love a small, cheap vehicle to use for day trips once the RV is parked and set up. We don’t want to tow a car the whole way.

we wil in in a 40' Class C RV / yes, folks i know you like your trailer tow so you can disconnect & have a drive around car. responses mentioning that are not helpful. /s

Traditional airport rental chains feel overpriced for this use case. Is there a peer-to-peer car rental equivalent of RVshare or Outdoorsy? Something like Turo, where a local person rents us their car or truck for 4-5 days of light errand running and park exploration?

There has to be a middle ground between towing your own vehicle the entire trip (MPG hit, wear and tear) and renting a car for the full two months. 

What do experienced RVers do for this? 

Planning a two-month trip this summer, Ohio to Oregon. For our bigger stops — 4-5 days in Glacier, Yellowstone, etc. — we’d love a small, cheap vehicle to use for day trips once the RV is parked and set up. We don’t want to tow a car the whole way.

we wil in in a 40' Class C RV / yes, folks i know you like your trailer tow so you can disconnect & have a drive around car. responses mentioning that are not helpful. /s

Traditional airport rental chains feel overpriced for this use case. Is there a peer-to-peer car rental equivalent of RVshare or Outdoorsy? Something like Turo, where a local person rents us their car or truck for 4-5 days of light errand running and park exploration?

There has to be a middle ground between towing your own vehicle the entire trip (MPG hit, wear and tear) and renting a car for the full two months. 

What do experienced RVers do for this? 

We are planning a two month trip this summer, Ohio to Oregon - with plenty of short and longer stops along the way. We dont want to tow a car the entire time, nor have a trailer or car set up to do that.

But for our big tops - 4-5 days in Glacier, 4-5 days in Yellowstone etc - once we get the RV landed and our primary campsite set up, whats the best way to get a cheap, but useable car to drive around for short day trips at these places??

It seems like renting from a National, or Alamo ("Airport") rental companies is a waste of money - and not sure if you can rent from then in one city, and drop at another city - or if we would even want to do that.

I know there are websites where folks to private-to-private rental of their RVs, but are there sites like that where people let you rent their car or pickup truck for 4-5 days for regional/local errand running, or main campsite to waterfall/natural wonder across the otherside of the national park?

help us /GoRVing! you're our only hope! there has gotta be something inbtw trailing your own vehicle the whole time (decreasing MPG, wear and tear on your daily driver) or renting a vehicle for the whole time - but then needing a trailer, or two dolly etc....

just need a quick, cheap, "get around car" for two or three of our major stops on two month trip! what are the pros doing??

howdy all - stoked to join the community, have ordered all the hardware for a wireless water level monitor & stoked for a new DIY project. microcontrollers = ELEGOO 3PCS ESP-32

i'm a seasoned Data Scientist/engineer, work as Dir of MLops in AWS & GCP. have been using GPTs since day 1. so have pretty advanced coding workflows, when it comes to standard python / SQL / Spark etc - data pipelines in the cloud. Primarily use VSCode & Antigravity IDEs as daily drivers.

but i'm not sure how well these skills will translate to the ESP32 projects.

Is there a better IDE? software wise, is there a better setup to use?

looking for pro-tips so I can avoid rookie mistakes & weeks of headache - so if ya have any words of wisdom, please share 🤓

UPDATE - visited the wiki, and lots of good intro info there. will read it thru.

but there has gotta be some tricks of the trade not mentioned there. for folks that have been at this for a while, what's one thing you wish you knew at the beginning that you now know only thru experience??