Truthfully, Is RV'in becoming less enjoyable
Need truthful opinions based on experience. My wife and I have been investigating traveling after I retire in two years. We were about ready to pull the trigger on a travel trailer than my wife go...
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Reading this thread and the very interesting and many sound advice posts, certain expressions come to mind!
Whenever I would say to my negative mother as a child (she passed when I was 19), "Life Is What You Make It". She would invariably retort "Or What Others Make It For You". Folks are who they are personality/outlook wise, and only we as individuals can decide who we are - "misery loves company, but they ain't getting mine"!
We love RVing of many types, from visiting highly desired, destination places through to the remotest of remote places/mountains/lakes/rivers etc. With the exception of places such as say LA, San Fran, NYC and the likes, we rarely ever book anything, and even those only a very short time in advance now we are on our own schedule and not that of being weekend warrior types. Whilst we like to have somewhat of a "jello plan" of where we want to go & visit, we love the flexibility of not booking much in advance so drycamp/boondock extensively (90%+) on most trips.
"Attitude is Latitude - Keep Yours" = everyone perceives things differently, indicated in life by the many choices we have today for absolutely everything compared to the pre-60s/70's. Sure things have changed and some of us don't like change, but it's done that since time began - it is what it is. RVing popularity, types of commercial CG's, even how privatizing the running of many provincial parks has changed things immensely from when we seriously started RVing in the 90's, and heck we don't like some of it, but "it is what it is", and we've adjusted our expectations or found alternatives to meet our wants.
If life gives us Lemons we make lemonade - not everything goes to plan and we've had more than our fair share of breakdowns, one needing a new engine, but with a deep breath, and saying "tis wot tis", we've still enjoyed ourselves immensely on every trip. Health issues/deaths/family issues affect many, ourselves included but we've found ways to compromise/adjust and continue our love of travelling in an RV. "if it's to be it's up to me"
Take whatever one individual tells you with a pinch of salt - try it you might like it, and there's tons of good advice/ideas from many here in this thread for you now to "consider/research"! However you are who you are, you know what phases you and what doesn't - maybe now isn't the right time for you or maybe "just maybe" it is!
Whenever I would say to my negative mother as a child (she passed when I was 19), "Life Is What You Make It". She would invariably retort "Or What Others Make It For You". Folks are who they are personality/outlook wise, and only we as individuals can decide who we are - "misery loves company, but they ain't getting mine"!
We love RVing of many types, from visiting highly desired, destination places through to the remotest of remote places/mountains/lakes/rivers etc. With the exception of places such as say LA, San Fran, NYC and the likes, we rarely ever book anything, and even those only a very short time in advance now we are on our own schedule and not that of being weekend warrior types. Whilst we like to have somewhat of a "jello plan" of where we want to go & visit, we love the flexibility of not booking much in advance so drycamp/boondock extensively (90%+) on most trips.
"Attitude is Latitude - Keep Yours" = everyone perceives things differently, indicated in life by the many choices we have today for absolutely everything compared to the pre-60s/70's. Sure things have changed and some of us don't like change, but it's done that since time began - it is what it is. RVing popularity, types of commercial CG's, even how privatizing the running of many provincial parks has changed things immensely from when we seriously started RVing in the 90's, and heck we don't like some of it, but "it is what it is", and we've adjusted our expectations or found alternatives to meet our wants.
If life gives us Lemons we make lemonade - not everything goes to plan and we've had more than our fair share of breakdowns, one needing a new engine, but with a deep breath, and saying "tis wot tis", we've still enjoyed ourselves immensely on every trip. Health issues/deaths/family issues affect many, ourselves included but we've found ways to compromise/adjust and continue our love of travelling in an RV. "if it's to be it's up to me"
Take whatever one individual tells you with a pinch of salt - try it you might like it, and there's tons of good advice/ideas from many here in this thread for you now to "consider/research"! However you are who you are, you know what phases you and what doesn't - maybe now isn't the right time for you or maybe "just maybe" it is!
