Cost of your hobby

No and probably never will. I like to sleep at night!

All hobbies cost, but if I can afford it I do it.

For us full-timers, it's not a hobby; it's a lifestyle.

dbbls wrote:
All hobbies cost, but if I can afford it I do it.

Ditto!

For us, RV'ing is not a "hobby", it's our way of life. We've found over the years that living and traveling in our coach costs us little more than staying stationary at our cottage.

I think it is meaningless to equate the cost per mile. Per night/day of camping/RVing would make more sense.
bumpy

A few years ago I quit buying, just gotta haves, piece of mind, cheap insurance and wow that's neat do-dads. Sold a lot of that krap I never used. Cleaned out the storage bay of all the stuff. Had to be a gazillion dollars worth. Now our "hobby" is more enjoyable and less expensive. Now I have real PEICE OF MIND!

I've done rough calculations. And I do count the cost of the truck because if we didn't RV, we probably would have a car with a 4 banger in it.

We've bought our trailers new and have kept them for 10 years. Even then we've gotten 50% of the original cost back on them. Taking that number, the cost of gas over and above what not having a truck would be, and the cost of sites, it comes out to somewhere around $80-$100 a night. Not cheap, but no worse than staying in rooms for vacations. And far more fun!

Its tough to compare though. We've done a couple of vacations where we've stayed in really nice places, once at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite for our 25th anniversary. Far more expensive than we normally do. And I know a lot of people who will spend 5k for a week in an all inclusive resort just to sit on the beach for a week.

Bumpyroad wrote:
I think it is meaningless to equate the cost per mile. Per night/day of camping/RVing would make more sense.
bumpy

I agree.

It's our way to enjoy traveling and seeing new places. We spent the $$ some do flying to a resort for a week or two. The only place I need to fly to is Hawaii since it's a bit tough to pull the trailer there.

Since ours sits on a seasonal site, we usually end up comparing the cost of the camper + the site fee + storage to owning a cabin. The number comparison isn't apples to apples, but the feeling of having a slice of summer heaven is. The cost is worth it when I forget the math.