When did boondocking become weird?
I always thought RVs were supposed to be self-sufficient; that they had water tanks and generators and waste tanks so that you could use them to go camping wherever you wanted and be independent. Now,...
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Well, I must say that a) everybody has an opinion, and b) everyone takes an expression of an opinion that isn't in congruence with theirs as a personal affront. I think that what's happening here is that many people DO feel that their purchase of a 75-foot Hotel on Wheels Industries Behemoth 5000 with two nuclear powerplants may have been a bit excessive, and now they doth protest too much. But far be it from me to say that they're not allowed to spend their money or time any way they wish.
My original point, which I'd say maybe 30% of responders comprehended, was that you buy an RV; it has fresh water tanks, waste water tanks, propane heat, the ability to store electricity and then generate more if needed, and then whaddya do? Pay $75 a night to sit on a slab and hook up the umbilicals. Seems contradictory to me.
But I always pitied those people who rolled the battleship into the campground, fired up the generator, deployed the satellite dish, started the washing machine, got the turkey out of the freezer, and plugged in the massage chairs. They were comfortable, but I, in my tent (or minimally equipped RV), was in Yosemite or Yellowstone, and they were in a hermetically sealed environment, which for all the difference it made, could have been in downtown Cleveland.
The consequence of all this IMHO has been a shift to "developed" campgrounds, where people pay beaucoup bucks to, essentially, avoid the inconveniences of actually camping. And yea verily, there is a lot more revenue to be garnered from renting a slab with a plug and a spigot than from renting a patch of ground underneath a tree. Money talks. Our national motto.
My original point, which I'd say maybe 30% of responders comprehended, was that you buy an RV; it has fresh water tanks, waste water tanks, propane heat, the ability to store electricity and then generate more if needed, and then whaddya do? Pay $75 a night to sit on a slab and hook up the umbilicals. Seems contradictory to me.
But I always pitied those people who rolled the battleship into the campground, fired up the generator, deployed the satellite dish, started the washing machine, got the turkey out of the freezer, and plugged in the massage chairs. They were comfortable, but I, in my tent (or minimally equipped RV), was in Yosemite or Yellowstone, and they were in a hermetically sealed environment, which for all the difference it made, could have been in downtown Cleveland.
The consequence of all this IMHO has been a shift to "developed" campgrounds, where people pay beaucoup bucks to, essentially, avoid the inconveniences of actually camping. And yea verily, there is a lot more revenue to be garnered from renting a slab with a plug and a spigot than from renting a patch of ground underneath a tree. Money talks. Our national motto.
