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

When we 'announced' we were going to hit the road FT, sell the S&B and EVERYTHING our family/friends were pro/con.

Her brothers were divided.....1 is a avid camper/backpacker/hiker and he was jealous. The others were home bodies and just couldn't comprehend the idea of no Home.
My brother was like that also, my sister was envious---she had spent many years traveling working/living in motels so she got it.

Friends were confused....sell your house and live in a 5th wheel. Then they saw the 5th wheel after we brought it home and after a couple of conversations about WHAT we were planning on doing (traveling the back roads...seeing the USA) they wished us well and a couple of them began checking out FT RVng, but they were several years out from retirement.

Even some campers we have visited with across the USA didn't get it.



I don't get the fascination with video games or tweeting/snapchat or any of those other things that keep folks faces glued to their phones :H :S

Ya, and then try to explain the attraction of RV'ing when owning, maintaining, storing, insuring,.....an RV is twice expensive as just staying in a nice hotel.
Oh, then there is the fuel mileage.....

My wife and I are snow birds and in the past with our 25 foot travel trailer we would always stop here and there on the way south and then again on the way back north.
This past year we bought our own RV site and bought a new 40 foot trailer that we put on it permanently and sold our 25 footer.
A month few months ago we got to thinking about our trip to and from and what to do, so we hunted all over the place and found a used small pop up.
We now, once again can stop here and there going and coming.

Guy

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.

I get that for most people. Much of my camping is because we are working in an area and need a place to sleep. Sometimes you just need to get there.

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.

I know I hear all of this all the time...
When we leave for Florida in the fall it may take two weeks to get here.
It a lot about the weather and if Myrtle Beach, Charleston or Savannah are good then we hang around for a bit.
We're leaving Florida on the 1st of May and won'e be home until the 10th or 11th.
Too much fun to have!

Sher

Hi fellow RVer--we hear ya! Currently making our way back north. Left Florida a week ago, and will not arrive in Pennsylvania until sometime next week. Currently enjoying the sights near Charleston, SC and taking time to smell the roses along the way. People think we are crazy but we love it.

This reminds me of my late father-in-law. My mother-in-law convinced him to get a 32' class C and they would tow their Harley on a trailer to their winter home in AZ. However, he'd drive 75+ MPH (!) to get there as quickly as possible. They were both retired and had the time, but he just didn't understand why anyone would take the time to wander a bit.