When did boondocking become weird?

JaxDad wrote:

toedtoes wrote:

JaxDad wrote:

ohhell10339 wrote:
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.

Sorry to hijack a perfectly good mud-slinging match by posting ON topic, but...........

All you have to do is mention overnight stops in a rest area, big box store lot or other place to illicit all sorts of ‘cheap skate’ type comments.

Apparently there’s a rule somewhere that you can ONLY sleep in FHU campgrounds.

The cheapskate comments aren't about whether you use hookups or not, they are about not paying for a place to park. It's an entirely different discussion than the OP's complaint.

Really?

ohhell10339 wrote:
At some point, which I obviously didn't catch, "camping" turned from parking your 23-footer out in the national forest for the weekend--no hookups--to paying $110 a night to park your 45-foot Behemoth Industries Luxury Cruiser at Slab Heaven RV Resort and essentially duplicating the experience of living at home.

It seemed to be EXACTLY what the OP was saying, that boondocking or dry camping is ‘weird’ now because you’re not paying $110 a night for a slab next to the Jones’.

Read what I said. The "cheapskate" comments people make have nothing to do with whether you use hookups or not. They are about choosing to stay in a parking lot for free because you're too cheap to pay for a campground (not MY opinion, just why others make negative comments).

The OP's tirade (one of them) is that people won't use their RVs without full hookups. That they choose to stay in expensive full hookup RV resorts instead of dry camping at less expensive options.

See the difference???