Crowe wrote:
PA12DRVR wrote:
Don't have a dog in this hunt :) but one thought I'd offer is to do stuff when the urge strikes you....not that I'm old at all nor barred from doing "stuff" but for quite a few years during my Tejas exile, I told myself "I'll do more of *** whatever *** when I get back to AK". Only to find that the passage of time meant that either the state or I or both had changed to the point that doing whatever was no longer feasible or it was not as enjoyable as presumed.
If the relevant timeline is either now or in the fall, probably not a factor, but as time goes on, negative inertia has an increasingly strong effect, often to one's detriment.
Opinion only.......
Agree. 100%. Only 60 but my mom was 55 when she died and husband's father was 52 when he died. Life is short.
We are 1 step closer to buying now. Looked at the dealer website and the unit we looked at was now labeled "Blowout, RV Show Price" so I called. Price dropped by 25% so we are now VERY much interested rather than wait as the price will only go up. Checked a few more campgrounds and there is sporadic availability-will just have to not be as fussy as in the past. One hurdle left before we pull the trigger-storage. Can't store in yard-original covenants say no but even though they aren't enforceable now we don't want to be "the ones". Also don't want it taking up so much of the driveway/yard. Will keep y'all posted!
If it something you wish to do and it is affordable and you are comfortable having something that you don't use every weekend and you can find a place to store it when not in use, then why not?
RVs = Recreational Vehicle
It is for your "recreational time", time to leave the everyday hassles of a job behind for a few days or weeks and reset your mind.
Not "everyone" that owns a RV has the ability to use it every weekend and that is fine.
We use ours a total of 2 weeks every summer and that is in one lump sum, not spread out over a bunch of weekends. Scheduling conflicts, distance to and from where we like to go makes it impossible for my family to camp weekends.. A 14hr one way trip then add in setup/teardown eats up 2 days out of our trip so we are plenty happy to camp once a season and our RV sits doing nothing 50 weeks out of the yr.
I realize you also have your "favorite" haunts you would like to camp at but for this season you may be a bit late to the plate at those. So you may need to consider thinking outside of the box and locate less busy places a bit further away from your normal places and if it means you only get to camp once or twice a season, roll with it!..
For us, the main place we like to go to gets extremely busy during summer. At one time before our DD was born we used to go there just before summer rates started, it was less busy and lower prices.. Once DD got in school, we have not been able to do that.. We have to book our site about 6 months ahead.. Some popular places you may need to book a yr or so ahead..
You can get pretty creative finding places to camp, do some Internet searches of the areas of interest for campgrounds and see what pops up..
