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| Above, a "pit stop" in Needles, California. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Suppose you, as a man, are driving on a long trip in your RV and begin to get fatigued, but your wife has either never driven or driven it very little. Or, even worse, you get sick on the trip and can't drive. What can you do?
Pulling over is one option. Having the Mrs. drive is another.
RV Travel has posted an article on why it is important that all adult passengers know how to drive the RV.
They start off with:
It may just be a generational thing. Or a leftover from before the feminist revolution in the ’60s and ’70s thing. I’m talking about the fact that it’s usually the man who drives the RV. At least this is generally what I’ve seen during the years we’ve traveled. It would surely make RV life easier if I shared the driving responsibility, but my husband and I also defaulted to the norm. He drove our first RV and from then on, assumed that responsibility.
Things change
It very well may have continued that way until we hung up the RV keys for good. Except for our trip to Colorado. We were on our way home to Missouri—a 12-hour trip. We got an early start to our day and planned to stop after six hours of driving. About five hours into the drive my husband began to feel drowsy. It was, after all, nothing but Interstate road over mostly flat land. Because I’d practiced driving our RV prior to this trip, I suggested that I take the wheel so he could catch a few winks. Surprisingly, he agreed.
To read more, go here.
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