tahiti16
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stevelv wrote:Maybe it will make me a little more tolerant of other peoples views that may make absolutely no sense to me personally - I can't imagine going back to a tent - but there are genuine people out there who tent and who could not understand my life of 'luxury on the road'
Sometimes our age and what we were able to keep up as we aged. My wife and I used to take the 4X4 as far as we could go set up camp with the dogs. We brought everything we needed and didn't usually see another person all weekend. Go hiking until it got to hot and then either sat under the shade canopy or took the 4X4 with air and went exploring, I know even then tough life. But my wife has gone through some medical challenges over the years and I have not kept up that level of activity either so tent camping is a lot harder on the body than it used to be.
My big challenge camping in a "developed campground is the people that insist on bringing 10KW of lighting with them to the campground.
I can go inside and pretty much live at home but outside I go camping to see the moon and stars and enjoy nature. The bright lights loud TV or stereo really puts a crimp in it for me.
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tahiti16
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stevelv wrote:Almost forgot just slept outside next to the coach to watch the moon/stars at the Grand Canyon(kind of like the 70s but no Pink Floyd).
that is what the boombox is for! Of course it should be low enough so you can hear it but not the neighbors or especially the wildlife, or should that be wilder life?
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tahiti16
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SIX PENCE wrote:Rving, for me, doesn't even come close. Health and age forced the swallowing of the anchor. Sure do miss the sea. Watching it from the shore just ain't the same.
The good thing is you still get to travel, different maybe but still better than sitting looking at four walls. Someday that may be the limit of your, and all of our travels.
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tahiti16 wrote:stevelv wrote:Almost forgot just slept outside next to the coach to watch the moon/stars at the Grand Canyon(kind of like the 70s but no Pink Floyd).
that is what the boombox is for! Of course it should be low enough so you can hear it but not the neighbors or especially the wildlife, or should that be wilder life?
no no, now days we use an iPOD  hours of Floyd, no getting up to flip CD's
We're finding we do more boondocking than Resort, but then I don't golf and my kids like dirt
But if Golfing in a resort is your thing - go enjoy. Leaves more space in the bush for me.
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tahiti16
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stevelv wrote:Hey, we are heading for TT Lake of the Springs for the holiday weekend!!
I might get a taste of 'the other side of life'
We loved it, years ago with our previous MH we did a coastal exploration of CA. came home through Redding and then because of our RPI membership was able to stay at TT resorts for 2 stays up to 10m days total. stayed at Lake of The Springs for 2 nights and when we got home made reservations for 5 days later in the summer. first time ever we bonzieyed up to there parked and never moved all week. Our 2 oldest were like 4 & 5 at the time and loved it. If we lived closer we would probably have a TT membership just because of there. We are over 12 hours away so not a realistic weekend run for us.
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stevelv
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Another aspect of 'Resort' living that I have noticed is that so many of us live our lives inside the RV and rarely talk to people. Being Brits with those weird accents, I tend to strike up 2 minute conversations that last an hour, but usually only when walking the dogs or saying hi to neighbors as we pass in and out of the MH.
Although some people have campfires it's not the norm - people keep themselves to themselves inside their RV because we have all the home comforts.
I noticed in the boondocking State Park how they had a community campfire and seemed to be more of a group - I guess not everyone is like that but it does seem to be more normal.
It's one of the (few) disappointments of our 2 years of RVing - not much interaction between RVers in the CGs and Resorts.
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dav5942
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tahiti16 wrote:stevelv wrote:Almost forgot just slept outside next to the coach to watch the moon/stars at the Grand Canyon(kind of like the 70s but no Pink Floyd).
that is what the boombox is for! Of course it should be low enough so you can hear it but not the neighbors or especially the wildlife, or should that be wilder life?
Actually Pink Floyd's "Ummaguamma" featuring .....small fury animals...is the outdoor wildlife, we always turned the volume up!
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Spur Of The Moment
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We fulltime so the MH is our "home". Most of the time we like the resorts or nice campgrounds. It's the travel and scenery while we fulltime, not so much the "camping". When we had a stick built, we looked forward to getting away and camping. When we want to get away from the resorts, we "camp" by going boondocking for a week or two or to a rally. We like both worlds.
Sometimes it may seem to others (weekenders) that we coupe up to ourselves. We enjoy meeting people and we do meet a lot who have become friends that we stay in touch with and meet up with. But we do enjoy our privacy from time to time. Just lay back and relax having our own campfire sitting outside watching a movie or something. It's not that we don't want to be friendly, but if we socialized everywhere we went, we would have no time to just enjoy each other.
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In the first scenario, I noticed only the difference in power (solar vs. shore) and that great quality of "rolling up one's sleaves and lighting the BBQ". The BBQ route requires one to blank-the-mind and not think about pesky bugs, smokey clothes and messy clean-up, but the experience is worth it.
We are sitting on a site now that could in effect be a storage yard, if not for the very green grass and trees. Not a person outside, just lots of Euro-motorhomes. Like Steve, I have an "accent" in the middle of my neighbors, but alas no neighbors in sight this morning!
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younchem
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There is no special honor or point system for spending hights away from home with no hookups. I'll take what I can get. If I go to the proverbial "middle of nowhere" and find full hookups I'll take it.
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