I remember when----???? (camping version).
I have a buddy that says we go "trailer" NOT "camping". I have no desire to start an arguement over what "camping" IS. However, after reading the post about needing bigger tow vehicles, bigger tra...
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When you get older and you talk about going camping, everyone knows you have an RV right?
Got pulled over by US Customs last Nov. with truck and TT on a random computer generated basis out of the Nexus lane. If anyone has ever met a CBP officer, you know they are mean and nasty looking and you don't dare smile or give the slightest wrong answer or else it's off to Guantanamo Bay. CBP guy asks what I am doing. I say "we're going camping" and point to our trailer in the lot. Guy looks at me like he's going to shoot me and says "NO! You are NOT going camping!!! Camping is when you take a tent and sleep on the ground." He asks again "where are you going?" Oh crap, what to say? I then realize I need to give him an answer he likes and say "I am taking our RV to an RV resort park in Birch Bay and staying for the weekend". Without a reply or facial expression, he continues to stare me down and goes onto the next question. No way was I going to try and straighten him out on camping and RVs.
Tip: for anyone crossing into the US with your RV, never tell them you are going camping. :E
When I was a kid, my parents had a waterfront cabin on the ocean and we spent every summer there (3 years in total out of my life). Water was 1/2 mile away at a creek, no electricity, no fridge, no phone, there was a stinky outhouse and a wood & coal stove for cooking and heating. Did lotsa fishing, beachcombing and played a lot of checkers and crokinole. That was real camping at it's best. Life was good. Now when we go "camping", we tow a portable mini-house with all the creature comforts of home and more. I especially love sitting at the campfire with a laptop with 4g Mifi. Life is much better than the olden days. :B
ps: I can remember when you could call someone in your exchange area with 4 digits - providing someone wasn't already on the party line. Then there was B&W TV with rabbits ears and 4 channels on a good reception day. Things sure have changed a lot.
Got pulled over by US Customs last Nov. with truck and TT on a random computer generated basis out of the Nexus lane. If anyone has ever met a CBP officer, you know they are mean and nasty looking and you don't dare smile or give the slightest wrong answer or else it's off to Guantanamo Bay. CBP guy asks what I am doing. I say "we're going camping" and point to our trailer in the lot. Guy looks at me like he's going to shoot me and says "NO! You are NOT going camping!!! Camping is when you take a tent and sleep on the ground." He asks again "where are you going?" Oh crap, what to say? I then realize I need to give him an answer he likes and say "I am taking our RV to an RV resort park in Birch Bay and staying for the weekend". Without a reply or facial expression, he continues to stare me down and goes onto the next question. No way was I going to try and straighten him out on camping and RVs.
Tip: for anyone crossing into the US with your RV, never tell them you are going camping. :E
When I was a kid, my parents had a waterfront cabin on the ocean and we spent every summer there (3 years in total out of my life). Water was 1/2 mile away at a creek, no electricity, no fridge, no phone, there was a stinky outhouse and a wood & coal stove for cooking and heating. Did lotsa fishing, beachcombing and played a lot of checkers and crokinole. That was real camping at it's best. Life was good. Now when we go "camping", we tow a portable mini-house with all the creature comforts of home and more. I especially love sitting at the campfire with a laptop with 4g Mifi. Life is much better than the olden days. :B
ps: I can remember when you could call someone in your exchange area with 4 digits - providing someone wasn't already on the party line. Then there was B&W TV with rabbits ears and 4 channels on a good reception day. Things sure have changed a lot.
