2) we also savored it, allowing 4 days to go the 100 miles which gave us time to hike to a lot of cool lookouts.

I get that. On the other hand, you might not want to break in a new rig on it either. 😳 Years ago my friends & I traveled together with our 2 rigs. Theirs a Subaru, mine a Kia Sorento. It went well for us. We had a full array of emergency gear/tires. Didn’t need all that, but it was insurance.