2016 nights in your RV ???????

No - we aren't supposed to keep score.

But many of us enjoy keeping track of our travels. Number of nights, number of different states, number of different campgrounds, number of miles, etc.

And such things as number of dollars spent of fuel, number of dollars spent on campgrounds, number of dollars spent on RV maintenance and stuff, number of dollars spent on ......????

One thing I've learned from these forums is that RVers are not a group of people with common plans, goals, experiences.

The only thing we have in common is we enjoy using our fiberglass or aluminum box to have our own place to stay when away from 'home'. Unless like me - that box is our home.

Most people use their RV as a weekend getaway. The VAST majority. Many are happy with their few weekends a year, and maybe one vacation. Many wish they could do more.

Most retired full-timers did the rush to the campground late on Friday, head back home on Sunday trips for years. The one big trip per year vacations for 20-30-40 years. Now we are simply happy to not have to plan everything around a calendar/ work schedule. That if we get up and the weather is bad - we go to the CG office, extend our stay another day, and go back to bed.

Some folks use their RV as a traveling home because the way they earn a living is by going from place to place. Their RV is a better home while working in a different town every few weeks than renting an extended stay hotel/motel room. This is very likely the largest group of full-timers - but they mostly don't consider themselves RVers. The rig is just a convenience. They are not in an RV as a choice, but as a necessity.

Back in the late 60s, my best friend's father worked pipeline construction. Every summer, he would buy a used 40 foot mobile home (no fresh water, gray water or black water tanks, no easy power connector) and tow it from job site to job site - staying about a month at a time at various mobile home parks. Because he wanted the family to spend the summer with him. He spent 6 to 8 months on the road alone working the rest of the year.

He never considered himself an RVer. Never has liked camping or the rest of the RV type living experience. It was just a way to keep the family together.

Some folks are like us, have decided a peaceful retirement does not include spending thousands of dollars a year on maintaining a home in some town. If I never have to touch a lawnmower or weedeater again - I will die happy.

We could not take the long trips we wanted while we were working. Living full-time in the RV isn't really very much cheaper than living in home, but it is cheaper than trying to maintain a home and travel in the RV.

Some of our best friends will spend close to 6 consecutive months on the road in their Class A this year. Currently on their way back from Alaska. All told - they will likely spend less than 100 days in their beautiful mountainside home overlooking a nice lake in the hill country of Texas.

And they are starting to wonder about the value of the money and effort they have to put into keeping up that home while they are on the road so much.

We're up to 37 days so far. Not to shabby for the weekend warrior category. We would of put a few days on coming up but's in on loan right now, not a bad thing need to save some the green stuff. Figure by the end of the year we'll 50 days and over 60 days the RV was used.

Wow, this thread sure has brought the forum clowns out in full force. :R

Only 16 this year do to a broken shoulder, a long way away from the 85 last year.

Left home April 20th & will be out for at least another month.

We are just weekenders and don't have time to go out every weekend. So far this summer, 12 nights with 6 more planned. Not very many...

Veebyes wrote:
There seems to be three main groups:

The weekend warriors: Doing almost every weekend plus maybe a summer trip of a couple weeks. These people are still working & have kids lives to work around.

The extended travelers: This group is retired, or able to work on the road. They are high milage people & do 100 plus nights a year but still call a house somewhere home.

The fulltimers: Says it all. These are homeless vagrants that everyone strives to be. Home is wherever the RV is everyday of the year. Easy for them to count how many days a year they use the RV. All of them.

We love being homeless vagrants. We worked most of our lives for it. Since we've been on the road, we have met quite a few people who previously full timed on a sailboat. Talk about the best of both worlds!

After we travel the US for x number of years, the people we have met, and the stories we have heard, make the sailboat fulltiming a distinct possibility in the future.

I only know we do over 6 months each year.

chevman

Bucky Badger wrote:
no RV notebook, nothing

I keep a notebook of gallons of gas and odometer readings. My fuel gauge quit when it had barely 10,000 miles on it. I haven't run it out yet. (knocking on wood)

Bucky Badger wrote:

SoundGuy wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
Are we supposed to keep score? I have no idea, didn't realize it was a contest.

pennysmom09 wrote:
Lighten up folks, just a fun thread!

"Lighten up?" :h Sounds like a reasonable question to me. I don't keep track, never have, would always like to camp more than we do but "life" always seems to get in the way. It is what it is, we go when we can, some years more so than others. So what? :R

Another I don't keep track, no need to. I go to have fun. And no I don't keep any spread sheet of any kind, no RV notebook, nothing

I don't etch the headboard either,, But we do take pictures while camping and keep them in folders on the computer,, So for me I just went to "Camping 2016" And remembered the trips we took and the nights we spent camping,, Not any secret information given, Some years the Camping file is bigger,, this year not so much!!
If you don't want to tell how many days you have spent this year in your camper,,,,,,,,"Sit This One OUT" What ever!!

As before in different threads,, If this bothers you to answer,,,,,,,,GET ANOTHER HOBBY!!!

I don't get the "are we supposed to keep score" comment. Seems to be an objection to the post? Why?