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buc1980
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I wander when the retire live for the long summer trip(in the mountains) May or June?
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Lwiddis
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"Why would the retired even want to go up in the mountains.."

Travelnutz, I do! Only partially retired but I love high altitude camping spots...Eastern Sierras.
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FordDiesel250
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Retirement is six days of Saturdays year round

Jayco-noslide
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Try re-wording. I'm not following.
Jayco-noslide

travelnutz
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Explorer II
Why would the retired even want to go up in the mountains any month where the air is thinner and it's so often very cold when they can more easily and cheaper to stay down on flatter ground by or on a a warm lake or in the valleys, just relaxing and have "Happy Hour" all day long and into the night too???

Mountains are just big obstacles in the way!
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bikendan
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We're retired and we stay homega for the summer.
We refuse to camp anywhere during the summer and holiday weekends.

Too many people, crowded campgrounds and lots of noise.
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2gypsies1
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Explorer II
If retired, why not go somewhere cool June through September? Texas is hot those months. You'll find many Texans in New Mexico and Colorado at elevations 7,000 - 8,000. That's the comfort zone.
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.... Back in S&B Again
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& 8 yr in a 33' Travel Supreme 5th Wheel

Busskipper
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buc1980 wrote:
I wander when the retire live for the long summer trip(in the mountains) May or June?


Easy - Leave in May arrive in June.


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PawPaw_n_Gram
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We are full-timers. We are not 'on vacation'. Traveling is how we live. Including days to do maintenance, do big cleanups, do shopping, do laundry, do bill paying, do correspondence (ok, Facebook), etc.

I'm also not rich enough to 'vacation' every day. Most folks, including us, spend a lot of money on toursim things when we vacation. So now we have to plan our entertainment expenses so that the toursim stuff doesn't destroy the budget. Something easy to do.

Almost all the things we used to do in our S&B home, we have to make time to do as we travel.

And a travel day is almost like a work day before I retired. I have to be up at a certain time, complete my pre-tow tasks, spend time driving, spend time setting up.

We've traveled 25 days so far this year. Even the shortest driveing day of 36 miles took an hour to prepare to tow, and an hour to setup after arriving.

Five of the 25 days have been more than 8 hours on the road, not including packup and unpack time.
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Two_Hands
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Gotta be June, if those two months are the only choice, cause there is too much chance of snow in May.
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Roadpilot
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I'll take a swag at this. I'm thinking he's asking when those that are retired are leaving for their long summer vacations in the mountains - May or June.

I think the answer depends on where they live and where in the mountains they are going. They are retired so they'll leave when they feel like heading for the mountains.
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rhagfo
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goducks10 wrote:
buc1980 wrote:
I wander when the retire live for the long summer vacation(in the mountains) May or June?

:h

:h X2

Retirement is full time vacation!!
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goducks10
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buc1980 wrote:
I wander when the retire live for the long summer vacation(in the mountains) May or June?

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