Lights on?

noplace2 wrote:

K3WE wrote:
Why do so few people understand that some campgrounds are out in nature where there's a reasonable expectation to look at the sky on a beautiful starry night without light pollution
and other campgrounds are a social town like festive atmosphere where lots of lights - including decorative lights are the norm?

We've been fulltiming for 14 years. Over those years, we've stayed in just about very kind of venue out there with exception of those that are primarily "kid" oriented. We learned early on to pick those places that suit our needs and sensibilities. As to part one above we have gravitated almost exclusively to that type of place. Quiet, no kids, no "activities", minimal, if any lighting, no generators, no campfires except our noiseless and smokeless propane one and most important, if there are other people around, they are similar in terms of needs and wants and very respectful of others. Just peace and quiet. The ability to go outside, sit in a lawn chair and sigh, AHHHHH! at any time of day or night.

Indeed, we are all different, but we need to understand and respect those differences. If you pull into an entity where the atmosphere is quiet and subdued and you are party people, please move quietly on without attempting to force your brand of "camping" on the others there.

Excellent case in point: We are currently in a very small park amidst the Smokies in NC. For the 1st time in our 14 years of travels, we have taken a site for the summer. We passed through here last fall and fell in love with the place for all of the reasons enumerated above. There are only 20 RV sites, most of them seasonal. The owners try to keep 2 of them open for passers through. Over the Memorial Day w/e a small family of 4 moved into one of those 2 sites. 1st night they decorated as if they were in a place where a couple of hundred string lights, patio lights and scare lights all night were the norm. I don't believe that anyone said anything to them (although if they had been next to me I would have politely asked them to extinguish most of it at quiet time), but for the next 2 nights they were dark and the last night, one of the 2 kids had a telescope out. :B Not sure how they got here in the first place, but glad that they "got" where they were and adapted, instead of attempting to force their mindset on others clearly disinclined.

It hasn't happened for years because we do our homework and are not likely to end up in party central, but if we did, we'd bite the bullet for the night and move on early the next morning.

Leave your lights on all night? When in Rome....