Trip Report: Boerne Tx to Naples FL. Left out and Hurricane Ida was passing thru New Orleans. I know what hurricane traffic is like and took the high road to East of Dallas about 2 hrs and picked up I 20 skipping I 10. Spent the night in an RV park and left my trailer behind for pickup on the way back. Up till then, I was rolling at 20,460 CAT scale and I lost about 3900 lbs when I dropped off my trailer. We cruised on to Naples FL and spent 10 days looking at properties, bought a small horse property there, and headed back and stopped at the RV park and picked up my trailer and then with a layover in Dallas (Grapevine) for 7 days on business, then drove home.

Truck: 2020 F 450 King Ranch OEM, no mods

Miles driven: 3,827

Fuel: Overall 10.1 average

DEF: Full tank on leaving and added 5 gals in Naples (about 1900 mi) which filled the DEF tank. Arrived back home (about 1900 more miles) and used almost no DEF, go figure that...see pic

Speed: About 3550 miles were on Interstate travel. Traffic was generally light and I ran on cruise control at 77-78 mph about 90% of the time.

Weather: Overall it was good, some rain was hit on the way back coming out of Tallahassee and lasted for about 2-3 hrs somewhat slowing down to around 65 mph

Rolling weight(s): With Trailer, I was around 18,800 empty and 20,460 loaded GROSS. This was travel miles 350 mi at loaded weight and about 350 mi unloaded but trailer attached. The Truck Camper weighs 5990

 

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