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06-07-2021, 10:48 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2021
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,258
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Don’t at all enjoy checking into any commercial campground. For a few dollars more you can check into a Hampton Inn. Same experience, but free breakfast. We’d rather lot dock at a Cracker Barrel.
Those experiences are not camping; they’re touring. We like to boondock 75%. The other 25% we become glampers by simply switching on our inverter. But, it’s getting really hard to find places to enjoy the real camping experience. At least on the east coast. Having to book natl and state parks a year in advance has changed the landscape. And on east coast, there are precious few BLM opportunities.
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06-07-2021, 11:15 AM
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#30
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Senior Member
Grand Design Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Middle Tennessee
Posts: 506
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You live the life you choose. If you so un-enamored now with camping using an RV, then choose differently.
I loved camping with just the gear I could carry on my motorcycle, and now I love camping using an RV.
Camping is a state of mind, defined by the individual doing it.
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2023 Grand Design Reflection 337RLS 5th Wheel
I'm totally done with Motorhomes
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06-07-2021, 11:44 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Upstate SC
Posts: 2,949
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"We RVers have lost something."
I didn't lose it. Last time out at a state park all that and more was happening at the site next to mine. They were having a great time. We had a great time in our rolling luxury apartment.
There was a time when I would camp with little more than a pup tent and what few things were packed onto my motorcycle. I still have that motorcycle and a pup tent, both at the ready. Just little to no desire camp in that particular way anymore. I've grown older, my position in life and tastes have changed. I'm fine with that.
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06-07-2021, 12:36 PM
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#32
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Senior Member
Excel Owners Club Winnebago Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Posts: 6,789
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I’ve tent camped my entire life. Still backpack some at 71.
To me true camping is with a tent or just sleeping on the ground. RVing is what I do with a RV. I enjoy both. For many folks RVing is a life style and their home. No judgement either way. We meet good people while RVing.
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06-07-2021, 12:59 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Prescott, Arizona
Posts: 3,564
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Camping is a lot of work. Work doesn't appeal to me in my 70's
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06-07-2021, 03:04 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Oswego IL
Posts: 2,387
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Been there done it! My DW and I started tent camping in the early 70’s, packing everything we could for a week in a VW Beetle. From a borrower 9X12 tent to a cook stove, cooler and everything else that was needed. We than transition to a small pop-up, a COX trailer. We pack that full and by now had a 4X4 Jeep Cherokee. Which we Towed the Cox all over to different campgrounds and state parks. Going off road and boondocking when this was not even fashionable. With three children we went to a Starcraft 8 pop-up and a Chevy Van to travel to different state parks, and Canada.
Since we now are in our 70’s, we no longer need to rough it. I will pay the extra money to stay in a nice RV resort with our Cedar Creek on a firm cement pad with full hook ups and 50 AMP service. We still sit outside having our campfire with coffee being brewed in the Keurig, using the SOLO STOVE RANGER to have the fire in.
I am not a shame to GLAMP!
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Sold: 2010 318SAB Cougar:New: 2016 Cedar Creek 34RL. 2008 Dodge 6.7LCummins the original 6.7L engine, w/68RFE Auto
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06-07-2021, 05:41 PM
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#35
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Moderator Emeritus
Monaco Owners Club Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 13,426
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fogbelly
It's not camping. It's not trees and streams and wildlife and coolers full of ice and beer.
It's not marshmallows and weiners on a stick and ghost stories and losing the flashlight. It's not wood smoke scented clothes and chilly mornings and boiling water on a Coleman stove and kerosene camp lanterns.
Now it's RVs in sterile rv parks with manicured grass. It's pavement and water from a faucet and 50 amp power hookups and satellite TV. It's all dogs on leash and comfortable furniture and clean clothes and hot showers.
There's no cold creek to keep the watermelon cold and yellow jackets to swat.
We RVers have lost something.
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We got a lot of the former at Arches, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park last fall with a little bit of the later mixed in between. It's what you make it. Those who want camping can find it and those who want RV parks can too. It doesn't matter to me what others like.
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2000 Monaco Dynasty
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06-07-2021, 05:49 PM
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#36
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 6,398
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I quit camping when we bought our MH. We now "RV" and enjoy every minute of it.
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08 Winnebago Destination 39W Gas UFO Workhorse Chassis......It's really weird being the same age as old people. I thought getting old would take much longer.
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06-07-2021, 05:54 PM
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#37
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Elk Grove CA
Posts: 1,618
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To each his own. The more people there are in the "sterile" RV parks means more room for us in the more rustic areas. We pretty much use our MH as a big tent with comfortable beds and our own toilet facilities. At 74, tent camping has lost its appeal and my wife is disabled so it's pretty much out of the picture.
In my younger days we tent camped, I backpacked, motorcycle camped and even cross-country ski camped, but that's not in the cards any more.
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2002 Itasca Suncruiser 35U
Workhorse Chassis
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06-08-2021, 01:51 AM
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#38
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: North Texas
Posts: 2,099
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Camping to me, who started camping around late 1950's in a borrowed army surplus tent (with me just showing up, obviously, since I was 2) it is all about being outside. Cooking & eating outside, camp fires, walking & exploring the park. We always slept inside. Just in a tent, in a sleeping bag, on a air mattress (later).
Coleman lantern & 2 burner stove. We were uptown when the MI state parks starting offering electricity at each site! One bare bulb in the tent & one in the eating canopy!
We now have a Tiffin Allegro Bus 37'. We normally still stay at the state parks, cook & eat outside (but not on the Coleman stove), have camp fires, and, most important, explore the park. And we still sleep inside - on an air mattress, no less (if a sleep number mattress counts). We normally use the camp showers & toilets. Old habits are hard to break.
My old camping was in MI. My current camping is in TX. The air conditioning in MI was nature. In TX, we help mother nature out some. I still go deer hunting in MI, with no running water, outhouse, -10 the last few years in the morning.
It's all camping to me.
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06-08-2021, 02:45 AM
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#39
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: MN
Posts: 2,809
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It's not camping anymore.
. . . and thank goodness for that!
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I bought an RV.
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06-08-2021, 03:46 AM
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#40
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Registered User
Newmar Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner Freightliner Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Rosemary Farm, Northern Ca
Posts: 5,444
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This is why I didn’t buy a 45’ coach - I still like to rough it a bit...
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06-08-2021, 04:28 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 5,314
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It’s not that way at many state parks here in SC. Plenty of tent campers, campfires, ropes strung between trees to hang wet clothes, people cooking breakfast on grills. Yes you can still find people camping even if they sleep in a box on wheels. Parking in a RV resort may not be camping but people still find a way to have fun with friends - both old and new. Just spent two days at a 750 spot RV resort in Conway SC with 20+ friends. Mostly talking, drinking, eating. It’s all about what you do, not where you do it.
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2016 Newmar Bay Star Sport 3004
2021 Jeep Gladiator Sport Willys
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06-08-2021, 07:28 AM
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#42
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: McHenry, Illinois
Posts: 392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wildtoad
It’s not that way at many state parks here in SC. Plenty of tent campers, campfires, ropes strung between trees to hang wet clothes, people cooking breakfast on grills. Yes you can still find people camping even if they sleep in a box on wheels. Parking in a RV resort may not be camping but people still find a way to have fun with friends - both old and new. Just spent two days at a 750 spot RV resort in Conway SC with 20+ friends. Mostly talking, drinking, eating. It’s all about what you do, not where you do it.
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Exactly!! We have made more friends in the last few years of snowbirding than I know in my own neighborhood. And very good friends at that! And these people know how to party.
This coming winter we all meet up in the Tampa area and do it all again. Its day trips, happy hour, pickleball, shuffleboard, potluck, casino night, you get the idea. All with people you enjoy being around. This is retirement and this is how we like to camp.
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