Sleeping on back roads?

rvit wrote:
Wow! Some really good and varied advice touching on all the potential issues. To say just don't do it is unrealistic. There are different lifestyles in RVing and spending your life in a campground is only one of them.

We have only stayed in one for one night so far and enjoyed it a lot and learned a lot. But our goal is to be closer to the action, so to speak, whatever the event/attraction may be. Setting up at a campground and then taking your pick-up/tow vehicle to the beach for the day requires you to do without all the comfort and convenience that you paid for when you bought the RV.

I would hope that we have the common sense to choose carefully where and when to park for the night, we already felt uncomfortable at a Walmart, resulting in the campground stay. I certainly don't think we will be giving all RVers a bad name.

Apparently, in some communities, just parking one in your own yard takes care of that.

I am not really sure now that I follow what you are saying here. If you have posted to this Class B forum the presumption is that you have a Class B conversion van RV - no need for a pickup truck or a tow vehicle. And hooking up and unhooking up at a campground is as simple as pulling your electric plug and going off for the day in your Class B RV which brings with you all that it has to offer. So while some want to save money or in some places there is just no campgrounds to be found, there is no need to park on some back street all night - which in some communities would bring a knock on your door in the middle of the night by a patrol car. As responded throughout, there are many acceptable parking lots that one can park all night. But to have to do so because you want your RV with your when you get to the beach, just makes no sense when your RV is a Class B for reasons just stated.