What happened to camping/RVing?
I grew camping/RVing with my parents. Tent camping was too extreme as my Mom didn't want to sleep on the ground and there was always a fear of bears(whether it was rational or not). In the 60's and ea...
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My roots to RVing go back to hiking out in the mountains at an age when most parents these days wouldn't let their kids out of the back yard without an escort. Camping in those days required a canvas tent - not one made of some super light space age synthetic. Later years found me out on weeks long backpacking trips on mountain trails carrying 40 to 60 pound packs. That later became camping out of the back of a pickup truck, then truck campers, travel trailers, and finally full blown motorhomes. But my heart and soul are still out in those mountains with some heavy canvas tent that leaked if you so much as touched it inside on a rainy night.
To this day you will still fine me out along some highway fixing lunch out of the back of my pickup when doing a "high speed" trip back east to take care of a family matter or something. That night I'll be rolled up in a sleeping bag in the back of that truck with no thoughts of "I should of brought the motorhome." I'm happy as hell in the back of that truck. I'm a kid again.
This is probably why I don't do reviews of campgrounds. To me they are a place to park for the night not some substitute for all the luxuries of home. There are a lot of posts on the forums of people wanting "perfection" for everything they do when out RVing. I suspect they never spent much time out in the mountains as a kid struggling with a heavy canvas tent.
I suspect there are many out there absolutely terrified of even thinking of stopping for the night with their fully self contained RV without having a line cord plugged in. Perhaps their days of youth were spent on a skate board out in some shopping center. That requires a different skill set to stay alive.
To this day you will still fine me out along some highway fixing lunch out of the back of my pickup when doing a "high speed" trip back east to take care of a family matter or something. That night I'll be rolled up in a sleeping bag in the back of that truck with no thoughts of "I should of brought the motorhome." I'm happy as hell in the back of that truck. I'm a kid again.
This is probably why I don't do reviews of campgrounds. To me they are a place to park for the night not some substitute for all the luxuries of home. There are a lot of posts on the forums of people wanting "perfection" for everything they do when out RVing. I suspect they never spent much time out in the mountains as a kid struggling with a heavy canvas tent.
I suspect there are many out there absolutely terrified of even thinking of stopping for the night with their fully self contained RV without having a line cord plugged in. Perhaps their days of youth were spent on a skate board out in some shopping center. That requires a different skill set to stay alive.
