Explaining RVs/campers to people who just don't get it!

Gdetrailer wrote:

Rovito wrote:

fireman41 wrote:
I'm sorry but I work for a living. I don't get 3 months off I have at most 2 weeks to make my trip, usually only one week.

This year we are going to the Nashville area and it's a 671 mile trip. 1 day down 5 days there 1 day back.

So why not fly and get a hotel? That was more the point I was trying to make. People don't get it.

If you OWN a RV, why WOULD you "fly and get a hotel"?

I have been in some pretty dismal hotels, having a RV allows ME to control the temperature (hot or cold), I am not living out of suit cases (yeah, that was fun moving a family amount of suit cases in and out of hotels not to mention waiting on elevators..)

We make meals when ever we feel like it, we don't have to leave our RV like we did for room service to clean the rooms daily..

Have our COMFORTABLE beds with us (hotel beds are the pits for comfort).

Never have to listen to hotel doors slamming all hrs of the night..

Not worrying about money, wallets or other personal belongings growing feet and walking off by hotel staff cleaning the rooms.

Sure, driving a long distance to a destination takes time but having my home on wheels were ever I go is PRICELESS to me!

We travel 600 miles to get to our destination, drive 7 hrs, overnight then drive 7 hrs.. Then on the way home we will drive 5 hrs to my cousins and visit with them for a couple of days then drive 10 hrs back home.. Thats 2 days traveling one way, half day to my cousins and one day home.. Meanwhile spent 5 days at the beach and two days at my cousins..

Is it worth the hassle driving, you bet..

Just for the record I COULD if I wanted to FLY to my beach destination then FLY to my Cousins then FLY to my home..

If I did that I would spend most of my vacation on a plane and airport.