What do you spend more time thinking about?
I just saw a great post by Shane Evans on the Xscapers Facebook page about the 10 things RVers spend thinking about more than regular folks. His list was good, but I think we can improve upon that. ...
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Back to the idea that people with RVs think more about these things than other people, I disagree.
I've known parents who think a whole lot more about what's going in their toilet than an RVer does - because they have a kid who likes to flush things down it.
I thought more about my neighbor at home than I ever have about neighbors when camping - he was an alcoholic jerk who had sex in his hot tub directly under my bedroom window and had the whacka-whacka music and disco lights going, and he'd get drunk and yell through a megaphone at 3 in the morning, etc.
I have a friend who cannot go 5 minutes without internet/text/email and is always thinking about WiFi connections.
I also think that a lot of this is perspective: "some people think" and "some people do".
An example of what I mean my that: Dutchmansport wrote that they think about their dog - they think about potty time, feeding, hydration, access, and so on. For me, I don't "think" about those things, I just "do" them. In reality, we are both thinking and doing the same, it's just where we perceive the emphasis - my perspective puts the emphasis on the doing, Dutchmansport puts the emphasis on the thinking.
And of course, there is the difference between people who think as they go and people who think before they go. I put my thinking before I go - I can plan a trip for years. By the time I go, I have every potential scenario plotted and analyzed, and have 5 solutions worked out. Someone else, just hops in the RV and goes. When it's time to stop, they think.
I've known parents who think a whole lot more about what's going in their toilet than an RVer does - because they have a kid who likes to flush things down it.
I thought more about my neighbor at home than I ever have about neighbors when camping - he was an alcoholic jerk who had sex in his hot tub directly under my bedroom window and had the whacka-whacka music and disco lights going, and he'd get drunk and yell through a megaphone at 3 in the morning, etc.
I have a friend who cannot go 5 minutes without internet/text/email and is always thinking about WiFi connections.
I also think that a lot of this is perspective: "some people think" and "some people do".
An example of what I mean my that: Dutchmansport wrote that they think about their dog - they think about potty time, feeding, hydration, access, and so on. For me, I don't "think" about those things, I just "do" them. In reality, we are both thinking and doing the same, it's just where we perceive the emphasis - my perspective puts the emphasis on the doing, Dutchmansport puts the emphasis on the thinking.
And of course, there is the difference between people who think as they go and people who think before they go. I put my thinking before I go - I can plan a trip for years. By the time I go, I have every potential scenario plotted and analyzed, and have 5 solutions worked out. Someone else, just hops in the RV and goes. When it's time to stop, they think.
