San Diego mom of two Audrey Patterson frequently vacations in a recreational vehicle with her family. But she’s actually driven an RV only once — a brief stretch on Los Angeles’ tangled web of freeways — en route to Yosemite National Park for their 2021 summer vacation.
“I was super overwhelmed, and I just felt bad for everyone,” Patterson said.
Patterson’s husband usually drives. When it came time for the family’s summer 2022 vacation – a camping trip to Big Sur – husband couldn’t drive because he was arriving a day later.
With the L.A. driving memory fresh on her mind, coupled with the fact that she would be solo parenting her 2- and 4-year-old boys, Patterson was intent on not getting behind the wheel of an RV to Big Sur.
“My husband suggested researching if we could get an RV delivered, and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, yes,’” she said.
RV delivery is one of the latest trends in camping, upending the traditional model in which you exchange your car for an RV at a rental facility.
One of the biggest RV delivery operators is RVshare, a company that operates like Airbnb for RVs. And although not all RVs offered there are deliverable, RVshare said that almost 40% of its RV rentals have been delivered in 2022, up from 27% in 2021 and 16% in 2020.
To read the full story from Sally French of the Associated Press in the LA Times, click here.
