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garmp · 03-24-2025, 03:07 PM

To us there are basically two styles of campers. Neither one is right and neither one is wrong. It's just your style. The types are: a tourer or a destinationer.
A tourer travels for a week to a month plus and generally stay in any given site no more than 4 nights at the most then on to the next adventure. Many times one night at a site at a time.
Where a destionationer will travel to a location, with maybe a night or so on the way, and stay for the duration until the return trip.
Just curious.
thanks

asmcivor · 03-24-2025, 04:08 PM

I would put us in the destionationer, we travel to somewhere and then use that as a Basecamp to explore the general area or to find good eats.

Mr. Lars · 03-24-2025, 04:09 PM

We are ‘destination’ style RV’rs. My wife has never been the ‘let’s wing it’ kinda gal, everything must be planned, reservations made months ahead. After we bought our Motorhome I would casually bring up the idea of my taking a couple days off, and let’s hit the road and ‘freelance’ for a couple days. She would nearly go into convulsions at the thought of doing something ‘unplanned’.

PDR John · 03-24-2025, 04:41 PM

Both

It fully depends upon where we are going and what we want to do.

The hard part is getting a RV that is comfortable to do both.

MandK · 03-24-2025, 05:33 PM

Well, I guess we’re both. We “tour” down to Florida every year then “destination” for a month at 4 different rv parks for a month each. Next week when we leave where we are now, we will be “tourers” for 3 months traveling around in the west visiting some national parks and places we have not been yet.
We are not full time, we just spend more time in the rv than the house each year doing that type of thing.

Beamer2022 · 03-24-2025, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Lars

We are ‘destination’ style RV’rs. My wife has never been the ‘let’s wing it’ kinda gal, everything must be planned, reservations made months ahead. After we bought our Motorhome I would casually bring up the idea of my taking a couple days off, and let’s hit the road and ‘freelance’ for a couple days. She would nearly go into convulsions at the thought of doing something ‘unplanned’.

We are tourers. But we are pretty much the same way. The better half won't move from home unless a full schedule is planned, reservations made, and routes planned.
We generally stay at a campground 4 - 7 days, depending on how much is in the area we want to see. We have a TT so the truck takes us to all the area points of interest. The time in the campground is usually late in the day. We'll cook dinner and have a campfire if we are back early enough, but that isn't a sure thing. Then it's a couple hundred miles to the next stop and we explore that area. Most trips are 6 - 8 weeks long.

So far I think the best was a 7 week trip leaf peeping through all the New England states. We have the Skyline drive here, which is amazing in the fall, but the fall colors in New England is a sight everyone should see!

Triangle Drifter · 03-25-2025, 06:59 AM

Missed the biggest group. The weekend warrior. Lives for the weekend. Goes to same CG and more than likely, the same site every weekend.

We are very much in the tourer group. We do in excess of 5 months a year, seldom anywhere more than 4 nights, seldom doing anything less than 12,000 miles each year. We know pretty much where we are going but don't know exactly when we will get there so there is much winging it as far as CGs are concerned.

Third time to Newfoundland this year. Out of storage May 1st and back in storage near the end of October.

SeeTheUSA · 03-25-2025, 07:18 AM

In our 20 years of “motorhoming” we have transitioned from tourers to destinationers.

PushedAround · 03-25-2025, 07:21 AM

As I am still working, definitely a destinationer. We pick where we want to go because I can only carve out so much time. That may start to change as next winter we are thinking about a 6~7 week trip to California via the southern route and will be stopping quite a bit along the way.

Gary RVRoamer · 03-25-2025, 08:40 AM

I've been both in my 20-odd years of RVing. Everything from weekend & vacation camper to regional tourer, then national tourer, then a combo tour/destination and ultimately a dedicated destination-er when my late wife's medical needs made any sort of touring difficult (but we still wanted to RV).

jimcumminsw · 03-25-2025, 09:38 AM

We started out weekend camping and traveling to a destination every year when I was on summer vacation. That was in the early 70's we had two different pop-up trailers that we pulled than.
In 2007, my wife and I transition to a 5er that we would tour the country with. We are now on our third 5er and this unit is presently parked at an RV resort in MI. We drive there whenever we can get away from 1-April till 31-Oct, for the last three years.

MKwilli · 03-25-2025, 10:27 AM

For winter, we are destinationers going to Florida for 3 months.
For Summar and Fall, we are tourers going out for 4 to 6 months, not staying any longer than a week in any single spot/campground. For example, this year we are heading to Alaska.

Duster73 · 03-25-2025, 11:11 AM

3rd big option, weekend warrior. I don't have time to be anywhere for a week at a time. Not yet at least.

High Road Travelers · 03-25-2025, 09:12 PM

Mostly a tourer. We are basically wanderers by nature. One summer we did spend three months at a destination in the mountains where it was cool and we were looking for a place to buy for a home, but didn't find it.
We will wander around checking out an area, state, section of the country etc. and then slowly make our way back home for several weeks, then we're off again.
Thanks,