What is boondocking and dry camping?
This subject is often brought up so I thought we'd put our collective heads together for the sake of newbies and others who are curious what these terms mean. This will be posted as a permanent thread...
Forum Discussion
chuckster11 wrote:
If you want to take your half million dollar house down a wash board road, knowing full well that these things shake loose before they fail completely, have fun. There are no motorhomes that are suitable for dry/boondocking a long way off the pavement in my opinion and there probably aren't many newer TTs or fivers that won't suffer consequences from the hard knocks.
The minute the pavement ends you probably need to rethink camping in a modern rv with sophisticated electrical, hydraulic, or water systems.
Chuckster11 has got an excellent point. For those wishing to get away, you are asking for trouble mechanically, and physically. We got our 36' DP buried in sand near Moab Utah once, but dang... it didn't cure me. Broken spring mounts, flat tires, constant tightening of nuts, bolts, and screws... everywhere, but ya know what? To us, it was worth it. The solitude and unbelieveable camping locations we got to few RVers will get to stay. To us, our RV was a truck first, and if the truck would make it, we'd fix the house as needed. If you do go our route, from personal experience I recommend you don't believe it when your copilot says... "go faster, we're getting stuck"!
