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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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. Now, apparently that's so oddball that it requires a label: "boondocking." Shouldn't that be the default setting for an RV?
What happened, exactly? When did boondocking start being weird?
Never. Just came up with a name for it that's relatively descriptive. The other thing that's changed is the use of solar panels to charge the batteries instead of a generator. Can be a lot more money up front, but you never have to buy gas for them, you only need a small, quiet generator like a Honda 1000. Not much of a genset but I don't plan on staying in bad weather places that much. I'd rather be blatant and pay the oil companies than the electric utilities.
