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# What We’ve Learned on the Road
- URL: https://www.rollingnichols.com/what-weve-learned-on-the-road/
- Published: 2026-09-25T15:55:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T14:01:45.000Z
- Author: Phil Nichols
- Tags: #no-home, #RV-Life

After enough years of traveling by RV, you start collecting little rules, habits, shortcuts, and lessons that make life on the road easier. Some came from experience, some from mistakes, and some from simply figuring out what works best for us. This page is where we’ll keep those things — practical ideas about travel days, campgrounds, planning, equipment, overnight stops, and RV life in general. It isn’t meant to be a rulebook. It’s simply a collection of things we’ve learned along the way and would probably tell someone who was getting ready to do the same thing.

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## The Rule of Threes

One of the ideas that has shaped the way we travel is what we call the **Rule of Threes**: try to keep a travel day to around **300 miles**, arrive by about **3:00 in the afternoon**, and when practical, stay **three days** before moving on.

None of those numbers is absolute. They simply help keep travel from becoming work.

### 300 Miles

Three hundred miles is usually enough to make real progress without turning the entire day into driving. It gives us a comfortable travel day without feeling like we spent the whole day behind the wheel.

### Arrive by 3:00

Getting in by about 3:00 gives us daylight and time to get settled, deal with anything unexpected, and still have part of the afternoon left.

**There is no prize for arriving tired and in the dark.**

### Stay Three Days

When practical, staying three days gives us a chance to actually see an area instead of spending every morning packing up and every afternoon setting up again.

We don’t always follow all three. Sometimes the destination, weather, schedule, or campground availability changes the plan. But when we can travel this way, we usually enjoy the trip more — and that has become more important to us than simply covering miles.

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