Loneliness and the solo RVer

Are you full-timing? Or do you have a permanent home. IMHO, I think it's easier to travel alone if you have a good support system waiting for you at home. If you're full-timing, I think it makes it more difficult since you're always moving around and having to start fresh with each move.

For me, if it's more than a week's trip, I think mixing it up is a better option. When I travel (versus simple camping), I try to plan time around people - sightseeing, etc. for part of the trip.

For an RV road trip, I'd suggest boondocking for a week, then maybe hitting a festival for a weekend, then another week of boondocking. Festivals are great because there are tons of opportunities to chat with people. There are so many festivals out there and many are in areas perfect for RVing.

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!

I like the idea of the Loners on Wheels for us single folks. It sounds like a great group!

The wobbly wide web is your friend.

I can appreciate where in life you are at. Many of my close friends have passed away. Youngsters avoid old people like us. JMHO. Our dog is our hobby now. We have other hobbies. Our dog is almost human. Great friend. Loyal. Smarter than most teenagers in todays world. I could go on about todays youngsters. I prefer pets.

I've been stuck working up in Los Angeles for the past year, and living in a Van Nuys trailer park in my small 18 foot trailer. At first I spent the evenings reading and tying flies for all the flyfishing trips I'll probably never take. When that got old, the TV and satellite dish went on the roof. I still watch a bunch of TV, but what really got me out with the neighbors was when I bought my small portable pellet smoker and started cooking really tasty stuff. Now several times a week I get together with all the neighbors and we eat diner together. Ribs, salmon, steaks, chicken, scratch made pizza - whatever someone feels like picking up or putting together I'll cook. New guy moved in across the way with another pellet smoker so now we tag-team - one of us does the meat, the other desert. The whole row is really close now so it feels like one big family...

We have friends who are members of one the the RV clubs for single RVers. The two I have in minds are definitely NOT dating groups. They are for older RVers. They meet up as a group at different places. They have discussion groups, potlucks, go hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, geocaching, etc. and in general just have fun together as a group. You might want to check them out.

Loners On Wheels

Escapees' Solos