Generator advice

Boon Docker wrote:

Monster1 wrote:

ppine wrote:
Just a thought. The whole point of camping to me is get away from modern life. Buying a large generator to run a microwave seems odd to me. You can easily make pizza in a Dutch oven on a fire. It is not instant, but it is quiet and you will always have enough fuel. No hookups, no generator, no problem. Teach your kids.

I fully agree with this. I grew up in the RV business and the boy scouts so I grew up both RV'ing and camping. I'm 45 years old now and this is my first RV. My family and I have been tent camping up till this point. It wasn't a light decision to buy our trailer. I knew there was a chance that we'd never be "camping" again. We've seen so many people pull up to a camp site, back there RV into the site and scramble out of the rig, look around and climb back into the unit never seeing them again unless it's to get into an outside compartment only to go back inside. To me, that isn't camping or even livin. I told the family if we were going to buy a trailer, it's for sleeping and getting out of inclement weather only (two years ago we were in a down pour for three days in our tent and I loved it!) Even though we now have the trailer, we still cook outside on the fire, sit around outside even though there is a nice comfortable couch inside, and we eat outside as well. The microwave is just for quick snacks and lunch when we don't have time to build a cook fire between adventures.

I totally agree with your camping style.
My wife and I are 70 years old and graduated to a trailer 11 years ago when we retired. We spend less time in this trailer than we did in our tent. Now when it rains we sit out under the awning instead have having to hide in a tent.
All the cooking is done outside on a camp stove or campfire along with eating and washing dishes outside.
The trailer is basically a place to sleep and shower. We also have an outdoor potty so we can extend our boon docking.
A generator is great for heating up left overs (in the mic) from the previous day.
Camp on my friend and enjoy!

I totally disagree with you guys. You're missing the point. People get out there and camp any way they can, whether it be from the trunk of your car, up to the top-of-the-line class A. You may not call it "camping", but those folks holed away in the motorhome do, and I'll bet you they even have a good time. Does it bother you that these people recreate in a different way than you do? Perhaps maybe these people just came in from a long week of hiking in the mountains somewhere and just wanted to hole up for a while and do nothing.