"Where do you go camping? What do you do?"
It was an innocent question from a family member this weekend. This year we've been to national parks, moutains, civil war battlefields, 4 Great Lakes, sand dunes, and just down the street. We've ...
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2112 wrote:We tell friends who ask that our trailer is our "motel room on wheels ("hotel" is much too fancy for us). And that we are travelers, not campers. We always travel with a Woodall's or Good Sam campground guide, Milepost, or downloaded campground list, so that we can make last-minute decisions on where to camp/park if our plans change.
We use ours more as a rolling hotel room.
Our Alaska trip proved the value of a rolling motel room because most of the old roadhouses are now closed and motels are few and far between except in the larger towns. And motels/hotels/resorts/B&Bs in the Last Frontier are exorbitantly expensive in summer. Being able to stop where we got tired or in a beautiful, scenic spot--public campground, private RV park, or on the roadside--made the very long trip much more enjoyable.
