Yesterday we left Sauk Centre behind and continued South to our final campground for this trip.
After a long period of juggling the various factors for our exit we have eventually made our decisions.
When we leave we need to weigh up:
Where we will store the rig?
Is it close enough to the airport to drop on the morning of departure, or do we need to get it in the night before and stay in a motel?
How do we get to the airport? Taxi, rental car or lift.
Seems quite simple, but it seems to take some time or organise.
For this trips exit one scenario that looked like it would work included a storage place I had found about 40 miles from the airport. With a Budget Car Rental only 5 miles away and a campground even closer this looked good, as the storage was only $75 per month.
The second scenario was another storage place that is only about 7 miles from airport, but he is charging $100 per month. There is a car rental about 7 miles away and a campground only a 3.6 miles away.
The first scenario looked better until we realized that we would have to store it the night before in order to make sure we could get to the airport by midday (that is another $75).
Then the storage guy in scenario 2 said he would take us to the airport. So although the storage will cost us $75 more for our three months back home, we save $56 on car rental and $35 on staying at the campground rather than motelling it on the last night.
So we have gone for scenario 2, though it got a bit sticky when we tried to book a campsite to include the weekend, but we are here now and things seem OK.
Spent most of today cleaning inside the trailer, as it was raining outside.
Hope it is better tomorrow.
2 comments:
Goodness - I've got headache just reading that! I dont have that bother Roy sorts it all out. So where are you - whats the campsite called? I hate leaving from the trailer, much prefer going to motel the night before then you know everything is done in good time and I get to have a night in a motel and meal out! Hope the sun shines for your cleaning time - we've had a few great days here but its going to rain tomorrow they say!
The R&A. I guess we just don't really like staying in a hotel. We are at the Town and Country Campground in Savage, about 3 miles East of the Canterbury Racecourse. The Shakopee campground you used has closed down and the racecourse only takes storage from its staff. Still all sorted now. Take care and we will be back home all too soon, for a glorious English Summer. Love to all. T&S
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