Caravan Rant

Ductape wrote:
Sheeple.

A few years back, we were in a CG in Fairbanks that gets a ton of caravan traffic. My wife headed to the shower, and ran into an odd issue with a herd of caravan sheeple. My wife is paralyzed on her left side, but manages to walk with a cane. She was attempting to cross a recreation room of some type, to get to the showers, in the far corner of the room. The room was full of groups of caravaners standing and talking, and they simply wouldn't get out of the way. She slowly marched forward into the herd, with a lot of polite "excuse me" said, to encourage a bit of good behavior from the sheeple. Eventually, she was at a near shout volume as she pushed thru.

She was quite amazed by this total failure of decency from a group of english speaking seniors, as she is a middle school special education teacher, and never had this problem with large groups of limited children. This is NOT an isolated incident, BTW. On another occasion, I walked into a public space of a CG to grab my laundry, and was blocked by a blue haired elderly lady in her "gang colors" ( the cheap matching nylon windbreakers all the caravanners wear) She told me that they were having a "private event". I then had to tell her that, no she was blocking the entrance to the laundry area, and I was going to get my wash"

Bottom line is that the caravan traffic is a very important part of a shrinking group of land based travelers, who traveled from the lower 48 and the more populated Canadian provinces. The Highway is hurting, in some respects, and every time we take the trek (about every five years) there are fewer and fewer businesses still surviving to service the summer tourist traffic. In that respect, all traffic is important. It would be nice however, if some of the individuals, and wagon masters, step back and take a moment to reflect on the fact that they are not special, and the world doesn't revolve around them.