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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I've always looked at it as 2 basic definitions:
Camping - the purpose is to be out in the wilderness
RVing - the purpose is to travel and see the sights
How you do either is up to you as an individual. I had a book as a young child called "father's big improvements". The story was set in the early 1900s and the father brought in one invention after another to the household: electricity, running water, etc. After all the improvements he took the family on a vacation. Grandma came along and father called it camping. As they dragged water from the creek, used a hole in the ground for business, cooked over the fire, etc., Grandma said: "Why would you think this is a vacation?"
I always remembered that as it makes so much sense. Why must we give up the improvements to have fun outdoors? Why does "roughing it" have to be part of camping? Well, it doesn't. We can have as much or as little as we want.
Camping - the purpose is to be out in the wilderness
RVing - the purpose is to travel and see the sights
How you do either is up to you as an individual. I had a book as a young child called "father's big improvements". The story was set in the early 1900s and the father brought in one invention after another to the household: electricity, running water, etc. After all the improvements he took the family on a vacation. Grandma came along and father called it camping. As they dragged water from the creek, used a hole in the ground for business, cooked over the fire, etc., Grandma said: "Why would you think this is a vacation?"
I always remembered that as it makes so much sense. Why must we give up the improvements to have fun outdoors? Why does "roughing it" have to be part of camping? Well, it doesn't. We can have as much or as little as we want.
