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AikenRacer
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Jan 05, 2018

Just not livin right I guess..

I am so tired of busting my tail in order to grab some time to use the motorhome just to have the weather mess it up. Hurricanes destroyed our two favorite campgrounds on the coast. One got shutdown twice with 2 separate hurricanes. We had several trips ruined by high winds. Just got back from Charleston camping. Had to leave a day early to avoid the snow and ice. Last year we rode out a tropical depression...won't do that again. I realize it could be worse but I sure hope 2018 will provide some decent camping weather....sorry, just had to vent...
  • jamesroadking wrote:
    I always carry an extra case of beer and a slab of baby back ribs for emergencies.

    That's a heckuva "possibles" kit.
    I like it.
  • Question for all who experienced problems. Would yuo trade it for NO RV ?
  • I absolutely get what you are saying and I am about 3 years away from doing full time or whatever I want..However, it will be a very hard 3 years...I went thru Hermine first hand...but we were in Gulf Shores Alabama in October and Cantore was a mile away...so us and two friends went east to Florida and came back...it wasn't as bad as they were saying but having been thru Hermine and Matthew (the one that was supposed to go to sea and leave us alone, but took a north turn at 3 am)...and we got pounded..we always take an extra day's worth of things just in case...all I know is I now have a calendar that I use daily counting the days..we also just returned from Daytona and our plans got us back about 6 hours before this storm hit...OBX is under 6 inches of snow and there is no equipment to plow or salt so everything is stopped dead here.
  • I always carry an extra case of beer and a slab of baby back ribs for emergencies.
  • DOn't worry...we've had our RV for almost 5 years now. Our first trip out, we blew a tire. 40 days later after replacing all the tires, we blew another tire. In 2015 we camped at Myrtle Beach for Bike Week through the flooding in SC...had to stay 2 extra days that we didn't plan for since all roads out were flooded over. Labor Day weekend, 2016, we camped through a hurricane in Virginia Beach KOA. THAT was fun....(insert sarcasm) Memorial Day 2017, we camped through a week's worth of heavy rain causing us to move three different times in a state park since our sites kept getting flooded as the lake rose and finally had to sit through the last day on a dry site but without external shore power because they had to shut off all the utilities.

    Having said all that...my attitude is this.. "An uneventful trip is one soon forgotten!" Go, have fun, and make the best of whatever you're dealt!
  • On the bright side, at least you get to go camping this time of year. We're stuck in the ice until April I think.