Right on yard art

Count me in with the nothing crowd. I like a campfire and a dark sky. If I'll need to find my camper in the dark, I'll turn on my single porch light next to the door.

My wife loves the lawn art, last xmas she found a 7' inflatable xmas tree with integrated LED lights. We spent the holiday at Cedar Key FL, one of the more remote campgrounds in the Eastern US (45 minutes to the closest Walmart), we got tons of positive comments from just about everyone despite the fact that we were the youngest family there by at least a decade.

DutchmenSport wrote:

Nice, I like those! Just trashy enough to be funny, just bright enough to provide a safe approach at night.

Hmmm, lawn art?

I'd have to say that our recent trip to Moab there was an older gentleman from Holland who sat out in his chair with nothing but a skimpy Speedo on. He wasn't exactly fit either.

I think he won for the most attention and other campers talking about him as far as lawn "art".

Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em! I've never been in a campground so dark that it needed to be lit up by extraneous lights.

I think I win for seeing the most scary extreme!

I woke up late one night when the dog had to go out.

THIS is what I saw behind my MH when I stepped out the door.
I thought the Aliens had landed!! :E

NIGHT

This is what it was in the daylight.


Along with this! What a crazy cool rig!



All owned and driven by a 5 foot tall young lady. :W

qtla9111 wrote:
We try to keep all lights off at night. Nature provides all the light we need outdoors.

Sit and watch the stars without a fire and lights. Amazing how much you can see.

That's why we boondock. Away from lights and noise.

I am in complete agreement. In many locations if all the lights are off, it is virtually impossible to safely enter your rig. To briefly illuminate our entry, I installed a 12" waterproof LED strip on the bottom of each of our steps(two) and connected them to a 12vdc remote switch with a ten amp relay. The whole thing was less than $20 on eBay. We drive up to our rig, turn on the under step lights, open the door and turn the lights off. Easy as can be and in my opinion very inexpensive. Hope it doesn't bother anyone but at my age safety is important.

We use to put out all kinds of lights and yard ornaments and had our camper lit up like the Las Vegas Strip! But after a while, we really did not enjoy having to put it all away when we broke camp.

Now, IF we need extra lighting, we just lay a rope light (purple in color actually) on the ground. It creates a nice glow, and doesn't overpower light to neighboring campsites.

But even that becomes too much work. So we just really prefer the dark, and if we need light, just turn on the light by the side of camper.

However, for Father's Day this year (for the guy who has everything), my dog (yes, my dog... so my wife says), got me this. Easy to put up, but casts light everywhere and gets a lot of attention. We do turn it off when we go inside the camper at night.

We try to keep all lights off at night. Nature provides all the light we need outdoors.

Sit and watch the stars without a fire and lights. Amazing how much you can see.

That's why we boondock. Away from lights and noise.

Count me in for the "less light is better." Also goes for "yard art" The only thing that I put out is the bird feeder.