Mat rant

down home wrote:

4x4van wrote:

down home wrote:
Grass was dead and gone on that site right at where everyone's awning is door to the coach or other RV and in an almost uniform pattern as if everyone used the same size mat...Grass has been gone in a rather uniform patch there too for some time.

Or maybe the grass is dead in a uniform pattern/patch since that's where everyone walks, cooks, gathers, sits, etc., and has nothing to do with the use of a mat or not.:h

Not unless they wear square shoes and walk in square patterns.
Usually they put their grills out in the grass, as I observed. A couple of chairs or maybe four, if company, under the awning. usually they are gone as we are, fishing, antiquing, visiting her relative, at that one campground. We sit out in the grass watching the ducks and fishermen or around a campfire, in a ring. Have no desire to sit on the dirt or in the mud that is under the awning area. If we make friends and they come over usually it is toward dark and we eat inside and play cards or talk,because of the mud and the dirt and skeeters, even though there is an outside TV.

So you're saying that everyone uses the exact same size/shape mat? Hmmmm...OK. Can't say that I've ever noticed a "pattern" of dead (or no) grass directly next to RVs in the campgrounds, but then again, most places I camp don't have grass "in the RV space" anyway. Personally, I use an 8'x20' mat pretty much every time. I spend a significant amount of time under my awing cooking, and my outdoor sink table, prep table, and grille/griddle go on that mat, along with my ice chest.