What's your opinion?

[theboondork.]

You're right Itchytoe asking for people's opinions might not be a wise thing to do because they just might give them to you. But I was really interested in how people are dealing with the changes that I see in the RVing world. Like you I'm a full timer, so everything that happens with RVing affects my whole life. So I thought I'd find out how folks are handling more and more of us baby boomers being on the road.

I'm a boondocker by choice and wouldn't want to live any other way. And as for where to start I would say make your RV as comfortable as possible while living without hookups. That's the most important thing because if you try boondocking and you're not comfortable you're probably not going to enjoy it, and never want to do it again

To keep me comfortable while boondocking for extended periods of time it takes six 140 watt solar panels, and four 100 amp lithium iron batteries. That and large holding tanks in my Arctic Fox fifth wheel allow me to boondock for long periods of time until I have to come in to empty my tanks and pick up some water. You can do it with a generator its just more hassle and a lot more noise.

theboondork.com

[Oct Prime]

We have to watch our money, so we usually choose state parks. It makes for an affordable vacation for us. We book in advance, and we have never cancelled or no-showed.
We won't always play at the campground; sometimes we leave for the day and return at night.

[Dutch Star Don]

Originally Posted by theboondork.

With commercial RV parks becoming more crowded, frequently requiring reservations just to get a campsite at all, and raising their prices ever higher. Are RVers turning more and more to alternate ways of camping such as state parks, Corps of Engineer campgrounds, and boondocking, and finding out they enjoy it more than staying at commercial RV parks?

theboondork.com

When commercial parks become crowded, so do the other types of campgrounds, even places where people boondock. We don't just stay at commercial parks, we camp wherever there is a park that we want to go to, National Park, State Park, County Park, occasional Corp of Engineer, Elks Lodge and once in a blue moon a parking lot. So, busy commercial parks really has no specific bearing on how we camp, because it impacts all places pretty much the same.