RV vs Residential refrigerator

[EricHarmon]

Hi everyone, I'm very new here and am researching RVs for my wife and I to full-time in, in a couple years. Depending on how much we enjoy it, we may full-time anywhere from one year right on up to the rest of our healthy lives. We love to travel and enjoy cruising, so we're used to small accommodations for shorter periods of time (like two weeks on a cruise ship, for example). We don't expect long time to be a problem.

I'm fairly sold on the Montana, and especially like the 3661RL. I have a question about refrigerators - RV vs Residential.

I don't ever envision us boondocking, but I *can* imaging the occasional stay at an inexpensive RV park with no hookups. For example, I'm imposing on myself a 200 to 250 mile limit per day. If we're heading somewhere that's 500 miles away, we need to find a place to spend the night on the way there. It seems smart to me to stay inexpensively that night, and then spend a week or two at a nicer RV resort once reaching our (temporary destination).

I'm under the impression that I have two options at that point. One is to get the RV refrigerator, and the other is to get the residential refrigerator along with a generator.

Would anyone like to share their experiences with either approach? Is the RV refrigerator simply too small for extended use? We don't mind going grocery shopping every week, or even potentially twice a week if we need to. It may be that it's cheaper and easier to just get the residential refrigerator without a generator, and just stay where there are full hookups every night.

Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome. Thank you in advance!