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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parks 788" data-source="post: 3590069" data-attributes="member: 14646">Our family drive on all our vacations if at all possible.   We drive to OK once or twice per year and to Montana once a year.  All for vacations.  We also do other smaller/shorter vacations, all while road tripping.  it has alway been me, wife son and a dog on these trips. For our family we have almost as much fun on the drive as we do on vacations.  Part of this is because in 2015 i bought a new 2015 Ram Megacab 2500 Laramie.  Its a fantastic road trip vehicle.  We drive on vacations because the hastle, costs and PITA to fly it just not worth it.  THEN, once you get to your vacatoin destination you have to spend a ton of money on a rental SUV for a week or two and that ends up costing another $1500-$2000.  I always make sure my truck is PM serviced before each trip and have all our proper safety road trip gear and have no other worries.  Pack up and head out.  Nothing better than spending hard earned money for a great vacation, having a great time with family and having no worries about a vehicle breakdown.  My wife is currently driving her 2012 Ford Explore with 135K miles on it.  It is running great but I'm not sure i trust it driving it to OK in the heat of summer at the end of August when we finally more to OK.  It really would be a huge PITA if it had a major breakdown in the middle of our trip.   We will be getting her a Ford Expedition, however, new are $80K.  That is not something we what to spend on a nice SUV for her.  She is perfectly content on spending $55K-$60K on a one or two year old Expedition with 20-40K miles on it.  We are looking on Autotrader and on Enterprise Car Sales websites and you can find some nice average mile SUVS that are really nice for a lot cheaper than new.</blockquote>

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