The singles meetups sound fun, but I am thinking about the rest of the time.
Last winter I spent a lot of time on the phone with long distance friends, and a lot of time online. That was when I was camping on a friend's property, in a big city famous for being hard to make friends in (I heard later).
It's funny how friendliness varies by location. For the last month of the winter, I was at an actual RV park, one with a lot of permies, and people were very warm and welcoming. It also helped that I made friends with a cat, and met her humans through her!