San Diego-based mom of two Audrey Patterson frequently vacations in an RV with her family. But she’s actually only driven an RV once — a brief stretch near Burbank, California — en route to Yosemite National Park for their 2021 summer vacation. The area northwest of downtown Los Angeles is a tangled web of freeways, tricky to navigate no matter the vehicle.
“I was super overwhelmed, and I just felt bad for everyone — especially my husband,” Patterson says.
Patterson’s husband usually drives. When it came time for the family’s summer 2022 vacation — a camping trip in Big
