Just wondering
How many of you that own 5th wheels stay overnight at either Walmart parking lots or one of the Travel Plazas? My dh would like to do this when we are going and coming from vacation ,but how on earth ...
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I'll bore everyone with another example.
We often take a particular trip of about 300 miles for fishing in the summer. We do it over a 3 or 4 day weekend. We can leave home on Thursday night after work, and be on the road by 6pm. By 11 or 12 midnight, depending on how tired I am, we will be close to our campground, but that is not a good time to be pulling in and setting up. We have several places that we boondock overnight. One is an abandoned WWII airstrip at Manzanar. Another is a state rest stop. And if I felt really good driving, we might park on a pull-off that is literally less than 1 miles from our campsite. Either way, next morning we pull into our campsite, setup camp and fix breakfast. We've saved $20 campsite fee, which is meaningless to me. More importantly, we've avoided disturbing neighbors, and avoided backing into an unlighted campsite in pitch darkness. This campsite has no hook-ups. So really, what is the difference between where we parked, and our campsite?
Like I said above, boondocking is not for everyone.
We often take a particular trip of about 300 miles for fishing in the summer. We do it over a 3 or 4 day weekend. We can leave home on Thursday night after work, and be on the road by 6pm. By 11 or 12 midnight, depending on how tired I am, we will be close to our campground, but that is not a good time to be pulling in and setting up. We have several places that we boondock overnight. One is an abandoned WWII airstrip at Manzanar. Another is a state rest stop. And if I felt really good driving, we might park on a pull-off that is literally less than 1 miles from our campsite. Either way, next morning we pull into our campsite, setup camp and fix breakfast. We've saved $20 campsite fee, which is meaningless to me. More importantly, we've avoided disturbing neighbors, and avoided backing into an unlighted campsite in pitch darkness. This campsite has no hook-ups. So really, what is the difference between where we parked, and our campsite?
Like I said above, boondocking is not for everyone.
