Campground tourists?
I'm enjoying a great weekend, the first for my area at a local state park, and I observed the curious habit of campground tourists.
First off, I admit I myself am a campground tourist from time to time, weather and location permitting, I'll drive through a campground to rubberneck and also wish I was camping.
I've observed three types of campground tourist.
#1: The NASCAR time trial driver. These folks drive the loops as if they were being timed on a qualifying circuit at a NASCAR event. My guess is the passenger wanted to see whats up in the campground, but the driver could care less, or is actually annoyed by the request, and tries to complete the loops as fast as possible, dodging pedestrians and bicyclists as if playing a video game.
#2: The line following robot driver. These folks drive at a reasonably safe speed, and appear to be following some sort of mental compulsion that instructs them to drive down every road in the campground, even those that dead end into a hike-in tent camping area, and another that dead ends into where the refuse collection bins are.
#3: The cursory rubberneck driver. These drivers stick to the outermost loop, driving very slowly and with lots of rubbernecking. I haven't observed too many this weekend, please forgive the brief description.
I myself tend to fall into the #3 description in a busy campground, and the #2 in a sparsely populated campground.
What say you?
First off, I admit I myself am a campground tourist from time to time, weather and location permitting, I'll drive through a campground to rubberneck and also wish I was camping.
I've observed three types of campground tourist.
#1: The NASCAR time trial driver. These folks drive the loops as if they were being timed on a qualifying circuit at a NASCAR event. My guess is the passenger wanted to see whats up in the campground, but the driver could care less, or is actually annoyed by the request, and tries to complete the loops as fast as possible, dodging pedestrians and bicyclists as if playing a video game.
#2: The line following robot driver. These folks drive at a reasonably safe speed, and appear to be following some sort of mental compulsion that instructs them to drive down every road in the campground, even those that dead end into a hike-in tent camping area, and another that dead ends into where the refuse collection bins are.
#3: The cursory rubberneck driver. These drivers stick to the outermost loop, driving very slowly and with lots of rubbernecking. I haven't observed too many this weekend, please forgive the brief description.
I myself tend to fall into the #3 description in a busy campground, and the #2 in a sparsely populated campground.
What say you?
