Why did you decide to get an rv?
My final straw was the night I headed to the campground's restroom and found some guy sleeping in there. He followed me to my camp. My old-as-dirt dog charged him, which gave me time to hop into the c...
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My situation is unique. For most of the last 35 years we've had a seasonal TENT site on a beautiful lake. We are members of a club that permits RV camping on all but the three lake-side sites. Those sites are so lovely that the rest of the members decided years ago that if you got to have one of those, you couldn't use an RV. So we tent. We have an elaborate setup with electric and most of the comforts of home. Mrs. S and I were both teachers, so we stay in our campsite most of July and August.
Back in the late 90's I realized my kids were going to be leaving home soon, and I really wanted to be able to take them on camping trips to places around the country. I particularly wanted to take them to the National Parks in the west. With our seasonal campsite in place, travel would require a different sort of camping. So, we bought a new 1999 Coleman Cheyenne popup. Its maiden voyage was a 3-week trip to Yellowstone. We owned that sweet thing until a year ago when we bought the rig in my sig. We've taken a 2-week or 3-week trip somewhere ever since 2000. (Some of the trips are documented in my older blog: learnwithmenow.wordpress.com, and some of them are in my current blog: continualsunsets.wordpress.com)
Now that Mrs. S. is retired and I'm "partly" retired, we will be traveling more. We plan to do longer trips, and we plan to do them in May and June and in September and October. We still have our seasonal tent site for July and August. One of my daughters and her family (with three of our grands) have joined the club, and they camp on the site next to us.
So - an RV has been a great part of our lives for almost the past 30 years. Wow!
-Speak
Back in the late 90's I realized my kids were going to be leaving home soon, and I really wanted to be able to take them on camping trips to places around the country. I particularly wanted to take them to the National Parks in the west. With our seasonal campsite in place, travel would require a different sort of camping. So, we bought a new 1999 Coleman Cheyenne popup. Its maiden voyage was a 3-week trip to Yellowstone. We owned that sweet thing until a year ago when we bought the rig in my sig. We've taken a 2-week or 3-week trip somewhere ever since 2000. (Some of the trips are documented in my older blog: learnwithmenow.wordpress.com, and some of them are in my current blog: continualsunsets.wordpress.com)
Now that Mrs. S. is retired and I'm "partly" retired, we will be traveling more. We plan to do longer trips, and we plan to do them in May and June and in September and October. We still have our seasonal tent site for July and August. One of my daughters and her family (with three of our grands) have joined the club, and they camp on the site next to us.
So - an RV has been a great part of our lives for almost the past 30 years. Wow!
-Speak
