New Motorhome In at the deep end.

[Paddlers]

New to motorhome life. My Wife Karen & I both retired back in September and moved into a 2019 Autotrail Tribute 736 G .
So far done a couple of thousand miles mainly in North Yorkshire & the North East where we hail from. Drove down through Wales last week to visit one of the offspring then ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao . Stayed a few days at Salamanca now in Jaen for a few days then Almeria for 10 then Alicante for a spell then working our way up . France in December then home 11th Caen to Portsmouth .
Christmas/January in the North East then on our travels again.
Apart from Scotland in the 80's for 3 months in a basic VW aircooled this has been a new experience. Loving it so far and hoping to do a couple of years minimum on the road.
Very noticeable how inaccurate our Garmin CamperNav can be at the end of a journey . Much better to pin on Google Maps . Had some awfully tight and incorrect routes in spite of programming the sizes in.
Hopefully we'll meet a few folk along the way. Ex Midwife Karen & myself ex forest ranger.
Tony & Karen.

 

[David and Sally]

 

[Figaro]

 

[gus-lopez]

 

[Go_buddy_go_]

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[Janine]

Exciting times

Welcome to the Fun!

 

[Lenny HB]

 

[Barriesimpson]

New to motorhome life. My Wife Karen & I both retired back in September and moved into a 2019 Autotrail Tribute 736 G .
So far done a couple of thousand miles mainly in North Yorkshire & the North East where we hail from. Drove down through Wales last week to visit one of the offspring then ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao . Stayed a few days at Salamanca now in Jaen for a few days then Almeria for 10 then Alicante for a spell then working our way up . France in December then home 11th Caen to Portsmouth .
Christmas/January in the North East then on our travels again.
Apart from Scotland in the 80's for 3 months in a basic VW aircooled this has been a new experience. Loving it so far and hoping to do a couple of years minimum on the road.
Very noticeable how inaccurate our Garmin CamperNav can be at the end of a journey . Much better to pin on Google Maps . Had some awfully tight and incorrect routes in spite of programming the sizes in.
Hopefully we'll meet a few folk along the way. Ex Midwife Karen & myself ex forest ranger.
Tony & Karen.



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Excellent! You're gonna love it.

 

[f6c]

Welcome aboard

 

[Brize]

Welcome Tony and Karen.

Glad you are enjoying your travels. If you are here for that length of time, try Portugal as well, you won't be disappointed.

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[Jo662]

 

[Riverbankannie]

 

[bigtwin]

and

Very noticeable how inaccurate our Garmin CamperNav can be at the end of a journey

Any inaccuracies will arise as a result of you travelling above/below the average speed used in the arrival time calculation. On our TT Camper we can set our maximum speed and find the arrival time is pretty consistent throughout the journey.

Had some awfully tight and incorrect routes in spite of programming the sizes in.

As well as inputting your dimensions, you need to set up your default route planning preferences. As a minimum, you should ensure that you set the route choice to ‘Fastest’ and definitely not ‘Shortest’. Some sat navs allow you to prioritise different road types.

Most sat nav ‘problems’ are usually down to ‘user error’ rather than any issue with the sat nav.

Happy travels.

Ian

 

[ambulancekidd]

 

[rolosroller]

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[Carolyn and Kev]

Hi there and welcome!!

Kev and Carolyn

 

[MandP]

Welcome to FUN

 

[PaulW2]