Drive night Sleep day Boondocking
This Sunday my DW and I took our TC over to Little River Canyon in Alabama for the day (need to run the truck every now and then). Anyways, this area is part of the National Park system, but it is a ...
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It's kind of like this.
When you are a kid, you refuse to go to sleep, but once down, you refuse to get up.
When you're in the prime of your youth, you refuse to sleep, but have to sometime, so you push day and night to stay awake, and once again, you are forced to sleep sometime!
When you get old, you WANT to sleep, but can't. As a kid you use to sleep 12, 14, 16 hours at a stretch. When old, you get ... maybe .... 3 or 4! Your brain switches "on" after 3 or 4 hours of deep sleep, and that's pretty much it! So now you are old, you WANT sleep and can't!
I remember driving 24 hours non-stop and still had energy to go in my late teens and early 20's. Now that I'm past 60, I can barely drive more than 4 hours, and that's with 6 hours dropped in there for potty stops! (Yea, getting older just sucks!)... Diapers when a kid, and diapers when old again! Well, I'm not old enough for diapers, I can still stop every 15 minutes and use the potty in the camper! Darn, getting old sucks!
So you know, if you are young, and it fits your life style and fills a purpose... sure! Go ahead and sleep during the day! And party all night! There are no right or wrongs when it comes to RVing! That's why we drag our homes behind us, so we can use them whenever and wherever we want!
Sleep? um ... what's that. I'm getting 3 1/2 hours a night now.... what do I do with all the spare time? Fix the roof of the house! nope! To dark outside... um... well ... I'm reading RV.net! (cheers!)
When you are a kid, you refuse to go to sleep, but once down, you refuse to get up.
When you're in the prime of your youth, you refuse to sleep, but have to sometime, so you push day and night to stay awake, and once again, you are forced to sleep sometime!
When you get old, you WANT to sleep, but can't. As a kid you use to sleep 12, 14, 16 hours at a stretch. When old, you get ... maybe .... 3 or 4! Your brain switches "on" after 3 or 4 hours of deep sleep, and that's pretty much it! So now you are old, you WANT sleep and can't!
I remember driving 24 hours non-stop and still had energy to go in my late teens and early 20's. Now that I'm past 60, I can barely drive more than 4 hours, and that's with 6 hours dropped in there for potty stops! (Yea, getting older just sucks!)... Diapers when a kid, and diapers when old again! Well, I'm not old enough for diapers, I can still stop every 15 minutes and use the potty in the camper! Darn, getting old sucks!
So you know, if you are young, and it fits your life style and fills a purpose... sure! Go ahead and sleep during the day! And party all night! There are no right or wrongs when it comes to RVing! That's why we drag our homes behind us, so we can use them whenever and wherever we want!
Sleep? um ... what's that. I'm getting 3 1/2 hours a night now.... what do I do with all the spare time? Fix the roof of the house! nope! To dark outside... um... well ... I'm reading RV.net! (cheers!)
